Day 3 of Carole & Co. 's Great Silent Recasting Blogathon. Today: An Ernst Lubitsh pre-make of Woody Allen's 1994 film and cur...

I've written at length about director/producer Cecil B. DeMille ( here , for example), one of the best and most influential of the silen...

My purely idiosyncratic list designed to promote the Funny Lady Blogathon now up and running at Movies, Silently . "A baker's doze...

Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard surely ranks as one of the greatest movies of all time, and perhaps the greatest movie about the mo...

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A look ahead at the Monty's March Madness Favorite Actress Tournament, part of which we'll be hosting here at the Monkey. Voting beg...

Spencer Tracy's performance in Father of the Bride is one of those that looks effortless until you start thinking of all the ways it co...

Is there anything more heartbreaking than the disappointed face of a child who didn't find a silent movie in his or her Christmas stocki...