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Top 10 Silent Comedians You’ve Never Heard Of
While reading Steve Massa’s fantastic Lame Brains and Lunatics: The Good, The Bad, and The Forgotten of Silent Comedy, I started to feel like film’s silent comedians were clowns packed into a tiny circus car. Just when I thought there couldn’t be more, slapstick aficionado Massa would produce another, another, and another. This list isn’t maybe [...]
Top 5 Movie Lolitas
Stoker, the latest offering from critically acclaimed filmmaker Park Chan-wook, director of the now classic Oldboy, features one of cinema’s favorite tropes – a Lolita. Named for Vladimir Nabovkov’s title characer, Lolita has become the catch-all term for the slightly too-young seductress. The screen is strewn with sexually precocious young girls who seem all innocence on [...]
Win Stoker on Blu-Ray
Stoker, from acclaimed filmmaker Park Chan-wook (Oldboy), hits the shelves on Blu-Ray on June 18, 2013. But you can enter to win a copy of this darkly wicked movie today, courtesy of Pretty Clever Films and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment! Following the tragic death of her father on her eighteenth birthday, India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska) [...]
Book Review: Lame Brains and Lunatics
Silent film fanatics know all about the Holy Trinity of Slapstick Comedy, an entity I like to call Chaplinkeatonlloyd. Hell, even the casual silent movie observer has at least a glancing knowledge of Chaplinkeatonlloyd. But in the earliest years of the movie industry, it was slapstick that drew the crowds and packed the houses. Even the [...]
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