Just look at this thing! That little Charlie Chaplin there rotates around the face of the watch! How freaking cute and awesome is [...]
The golden age of the short film and the golden age of comedy are one in the same. Here’s a look at a [...]
Thanks to the generosity and hospitality of an awesome Toronto film fan, I had the opportunity to see The Mystery of the Leaping [...]
Today is the birthday of William Desmond Taylor, silent film actor and director. Though he acted in or directed over 80 silent films (most [...]
Today is the anniversary of the first projected movie screening in the United States. Edison’s Vitascope debuted on April 23, 1896 at Koster and [...]
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Just look at this thing! That little Charlie Chaplin there rotates around the face of the watch! How freaking cute and awesome is [...]
Modern Times
What’s an anthology film you ask? It’s one of those feature films that’s really a bunch of short films or disparate narratives stitched together [...]
Modern Times
Yesterday the world got it’s first peek at Sir Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock. Can you tell which is the real Hitch? (The answer [...]
Modern Times
Granted, at times, I feel uncomfortable discussing Canadian politics. Who am I, transplanted New Yorker that I am, to say, right? But I [...]
Modern Times
Avi Federgreen, acclaimed Canadian film producer and founder of Federgreen Entertainment and IndieCan Entertainment, announced today the launch of River Valley Films, a new [...]
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Miss Fatty’s Seaside Lovers features a lot of Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle and a little bit of Harold Lloyd. I give it four stars [...]
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Here’s some hand-colored original clips from a Trip to the Moon. This is just a little tease of what you’ll be watching if you [...]
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Let’s play spot the Chaplin! His Regeneration was released on May 7, 1915 by Essanay Studios. In it, a criminal type get in [...]
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See Charlie Chaplin in Caught in the Rain (1914). I’m going four stars on this one, since it’s Charlie, Keystone Studios, and funny. [...]
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