Scott Johnston has been crafting clever, single-panel cartoons for over two decades, bringing his dry humor to life in ...

In a new novel, France’s famously abrasive author progresses from barbed satire to a spiritual-conversion narrative.

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Somewhere, the aforementioned Spanish director behind “The Exterminating Angel” is nodding wryly at the idea of a satire about G-7 leaders set in a peat bog thick with mummified zombies.

There’s something so unique about the dry, wry Canadian sense of humour — and Guy Maddin‘s latest movie, Rumours, captures it perfectly. Set during a fictional G7 summit, Rumours sees ...

Read the Empire review. Cartoon Saloon (and co-director Tomm Moore) wrapped up its Irish Folklore Trilogy with this latest release, a fantastical tale set against the very real issue of English ...

It is certainly funny in places, and droll in others; it is occasionally even stinging in its satire of show-business sincerity. We learn that Strings’s most recent celebrity fiancée ...