This post contains minor spoilers from “Silent Night, Deadly Night,” now in theaters. The 1984 slasher “Silent Night, Deadly ...

With Taylor Swift singing songs about Clara Bow, audiences have turned their attention to the first days of cinema. But even the most hardened Swiftie might find themselves confused by a strange ...

Recently I took my two daughters to see a silent film at Film Forum here in New York. “Kid Boots” was a hit romantic comedy of 1926, starring the stage comic Eddie Cantor (roughly the Martin Short of ...

British actor, director, screenwriter and producer Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin and American actor Tom Murray in a scene from "The Gold Rush." While there are modern silent classics, such as ...

Like the first “Silent Night, Deadly Night”’s Billy, Campbell’s protagonist loses his parents in a freakish childhood ...

Effortlessly masculine and boyishly buoyant, George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is one of Hollywood’s most enduring stars. In a scene from one of his films, George is being tortured in a villain’s ...