MAD WORLD

EDITED BY JORDAN FARLEY

@JORDANFARLEY

There are certain people that believe there are alien lizards among us. What do you do, as a storyteller, in the face of that?” asks Adam McKay. It’s a fair question, as ever since the tangerine-in-chief took office, filmmakers like McKay have found themselves on the losing side of an arms race with the 10pm news.

McKay’s answer is a black comedy about a frighteningly recognisable world in which even a planet-killing comet hurtling towards the Earth can’t convince people to put their baseball caps