Posts tagged Joe Dante
Trump's Re-Election Makes This Article Comparing Him to a Sadistic Boy-God Character from The Twilight Zone More Relevant Than Ever

Donald Trump is essentially the monstrously powerful telekinetic child-God from the classic Twilight Zone episode “It’s a Good Life” and despite being on the cusp of losing the source of his tremendous power, he still retains the awful ability to relegate those who displease him to metaphorical cornfields of doom.

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The Second Civil War (1997)

Phil Hartman Month closes on a high note with a fond look back at Hartman’s hilarious performance as a ragingly ineffectual President of the United States in 1997’s The Second Civil War, Joe Dante’s almost eerily prescient political and media satire about a near-future US driven to the point of civil war over the issue of immigration.

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