If the Academy was vaguely in the ballpark the first year it handed out Oscars, it completely blew it the next. This year the winners were...

At first blush, Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall is a radical departure for its star Mary Pickford. Based on a popular novel by Charles Ma...

Along with Méliès's rocket hitting the moon in the eye and Chaplin as the Tramp, Harold Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock is one o...

Those of you who have been following the Monkey for a while might remember that one of my favorite ongoing projects is the quest to see all ...

In honor of Carole Lombard's 103rd birthday today, Carole & Co. is hosting the "Carole-tennial+3 blogathon." This is my ...

So what's the most difficult part of reviewing silent movies, you might ask. That's easy: the fact that something like 80% of them ...

Forget auteur theory, formalism, genre studies or any of that other film school claptrap, the unifying thread running through any well-round...