Slapstick is one of comedy's earliest types of humor, so it is no surprise that there have been great movies since the dawn ...

Bristol's annual Slapstick Festival, which celebrates silent and classic screen comedy, has announced it will be weaving its 20th birthday celebrations into its next annual gala at Bristol Beacon on ...

Watching a comedy from the silent film era is, as the Museum of Modern Art’s website suggests, to stare directly into the “vast subconscious that is American slapstick.” And, based on the title that ...

Silent Laughter Words cannot express the numbing experience of watching a dumb show that is truly dumb. Although not a word is spoken throughout this pointless reproduction of a silent slapstick movie ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The indie success story of the year is for a movie you maybe haven't heard of: "Hundreds of Beavers." Director Mike Cheslik's film ...

Ben Model was but a toddler when he got a glimpse of the art form that would shape his life's work. "I discovered Charlie Chaplin when I was only 3 or 4 years old," he said. "Back then, they used to ...

In one film, a housemaid is lighting a fire when she spontaneously combusts out of the chimney. Her body parts rain down on the village. When she returns, as a ghost, to her gravestone, the audience ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Willie Barcena: will be taping his shows for his next special, “But, You Don’t Hear Me Though.” 8 and 10 p.m. today and Saturday, The Ice House, 24 N. Mentor ...

Michael Britt has a general idea of the music he'll play during his performance this year at Artscape. But then again, things could change. Britt, who received a bachelor's degree in Organ Performance ...