By 1929, silent movies were as dead as disco and even the biggest stars of that suddenly bygone era found themselves struggling to connect...

We here at the Monkey pause to sadly note the passing of Ray Harryhausen, for my money the greatest special effects wizard of all time and a...

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

The Monkey reviewed three plays on Broadway in the last year— Chaplin , Golden Boy and The Nance —giving each of them thumbs up to varying ...

We're on a Mary Pickford kick here at the Monkey, having taken in two Pickford silents at the AFI-Silver in the past week. And in he...

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...

We here at the Monkey want to take time out to say goodbye to our old friend and neighbor, George Jones. Not only was he one of the greates...

As part of its (hopefully) annual Silent Cinema Showcase, the AFI-Silver is showing the Mary Pickford film Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall t...

For a dearly-beloved four-star classic, The Wizard of Oz was a troubled production, from start to finish. The studio wanted Shirley Te...