The filmmaker, who long hesitated between physics and making movies, has not lost his enthusiasm for the magic of the screen.

Chronicle movie critic emeritus Mick LaSalle also answers questions about Andy Griffith, Charlie Chaplin and more.

Humor heightens our sense of survival and preserves our sanity. These are the words of Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, aka Charlie Chaplin. As a ...

Filmmaker Peter Chan Ho-sun returned to the Tokyo International Film Festival nearly three decades after his UFO (United ...

The young Charlie spent time in workhouses ... which took him to the United States, where, in 1914, Chaplin began appearing in and soon directing short films. Over the next few years, the comic ...

From silent sensations like Sherlock Jr. to screwball rom-coms like His Girl Friday, these hilarious pre-1950 hits still ...

Crowe was just 15 years old when he became a music journalist in 1973. He had to talk his mom into letting him go on the road ...

Although silent cinema peaked over a century ago, films like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Metropolis endure as timeless ...

A 30-minute montage of century-old newsreels stands as one of the most emotional film experiences I’ve had this year.

Charlie Chaplin's Limelight opened on October 23, 1952, launching what would become one of the strangest Oscar stories in ...

Here, Scarface is Tony Camonte, an Al Capone-like Italian gangster running booze on the South Side of 30s Chicago. He’s ...

HBO Max has one of the best streaming libraries out there, and these are the best movies on the service, at least according ...