#Media Critique

Articles (15)

• 🇺🇸 ‘Faces of Death’ Writers on Creating Dacre Montgomery’s Internet-Obsessed Killer and Importance of Using Disturbing Real Life Footage — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  SPOILER ALERT: This article contains mild spoilers for “Faces of Death,” now in theaters. The original 1978 film “Faces of Death” was a cult sensation for decades, as it was rumored to show real-life ...

  Related: #Modern Horror, #Voyeurism
• 🇺🇸 Billy Magnussen and Simon Helberg Talk ‘Fake Idols’ of Tech World as ‘The Audacity’ Gears up for Second Season: ‘The Stakes Are High’ — 21/03/2026 [USA]

  Created by Jonathan Glatzer, “The Audacity” is returning for a second season, and its stars are ready for it.  “The stakes are high,” Billy Magnussen tells Variety. “Jonathan has set up so many twists...

  Related: #Tech Satire
• 🇬🇧 The greatest challenge Farage has ever faced – convincing the world he was never besties with Donald Trump | Marina Hyde — 20/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>The Reform UK leader has belatedly clocked that most British people really don’t like the US president on whose coat-tails he has spent the past decade riding</p><p>At last, the culture has thrown ...

  Related: #Political Image
• 🇺🇸 ‘Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man’ Review: Flat Caps and Inflated Myths — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Cillian Murphy rides to the rescue of family and homeland in this affectionate capper to the popular television series.

  Related: #Historical Fiction
• 🇬🇧 Ben Jennings on Nigel Farage’s content creation – cartoon — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/mar/18/ben-jennings-nigel-farage-content-creation-cartoon">Continue reading...</a>

  Related: #Political Satire
• 🇬🇧 Inside the Rage Machine review – we’re all doomed, totally doomed — 16/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Whistleblowers who once worked at Meta and X (until the guilt got too much) reveal the truth about the companies that increasingly rule our free time – and it’s even worse than you may have feared....

  Related: #Societal Anger
• 🇺🇸 E!’s ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Doc Reveals a Winner Stripped of Her Title, Reshot Finale and Unpaid Contestants in ‘Dirty Rotten Scandals’ — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  Suddenly, documentarians can’t get enough of the scandals surrounding “America’s Next Top Model.” Last month, Netflix released “Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model,” which took viewers into...

  Related: #Reality TV Scandals, #Exploitation of Contestants, #Celebrity Power Dynamics
• 🇬🇧 Ben Jennings on Trump and Hegseth: mission accomplished? – cartoon — 11/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/mar/11/ben-jennings-donald-trump-pete-hegseth-cartoon">Continue reading...</a>

  Related: #Political Satire
• 🇬🇧 It’s shock and awe as Trump’s granddaughter does her bit for the war effort. All hail Kai Trump, the shopper-in-chief | Marina Hyde — 10/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Yes, many Americans are struggling, but it’s good to know the first family can still afford Earth’s most expensive provisions. Morale is everything, isn’t it?</p><p>In the absence of any clearly an...

  Related: #Political Satire
• 🇺🇸 ‘SNL’ Cold Open: Fired Kristi Noem Turns In Her Gun, Badge, Lips and Lashes — 08/03/2026 [USA]

  The Department of Homeland Security secretary says she has no regrets, and tries to be upbeat about her downgrade of a new job

  Related: #Political Satire
• 🇺🇸 ‘SNL’ Cold Open: Colin Jost and Ashley Padilla Skewer Pete Hegseth Over Iran and Kristi Noem’s Firing — 08/03/2026 [USA]

  “Saturday Night Live’s” cold open took aim at Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s bravado as the U.S. goes to war with Iran as well as Kristi Noem’s firing from the Department of Homeland Security aft...

  Related: #Political Satire
• 🇺🇸 SNL’s Pete Hegseth & Kristi Noem Cold Open Skewers DHS Boss’ Pink-Slipping: “I Didn’t Get Fired, I Self-Deported” — 08/03/2026 [USA]

  Even with Ryan Gosling back as host tonight, SNL eschewed a Hail Mary for its cold open and went with tradition with another predictable and still hilarious roasting of Pete Hegseth with some axed Kri...

  Related: #Political Satire
• 🇺🇸 On ‘Industry’ as in the Real World, All Roads Lead to Epstein — 05/03/2026 [USA]

  The series’ just-concluded fourth season peeled back the curtains on the latent desires that fuel global capital

  Related: #Power Networks
• 🇺🇸 ‘You Cannot Feel Remotely Sorry for the Patriots’: Opinion Writers Tackle the Super Bowl — 09/02/2026 [USA]

  Super Bowl LX is in the books. An Opinion round table breaks down the game, the entertainment — and the commercials.

  Related: #Sports Analysis, #Pop Culture
• 🇺🇸 Late Night Finds Trump Out of Place at Prayer Breakfast — 06/02/2026 [USA]

  The annual National Prayer Breakfast “is supposed to be a normal, nonpartisan event,” Seth Meyers said, “but, of course, Donald Trump is incapable of being normal.”

  Related: #Politics, #National Traditions