A newly restored “It” launches Carlotta Films’ deal to bring Artcraft Pictures’ silent and early-sound catalogue to France ...

Sophie Simnett, the rising British star best known for Netflix’s post-apocalyptic comedy drama “Daybreak” and Brit crime feature “Twist,” is set to star alongside writer-actor Jack Whittle (“Tony!”) ...

A mythical slapstick silent comedy that’s been missing for more than a century “miraculously” turned up inside a dusty antique shop in Japan. The long-lost 1919 film “Van-ar-chy,” starring old-time ...

A century after Charlie Chaplin's heyday, another man with a gift for silent comedy has become a worldwide star. Khaby Lame, who began making videos when he was laid off from his factory job in Italy ...

American comedy has strayed from the light of its ancestors. Gone are the days of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and the Marx Brothers, when jokes and visual surprises flew at a mile a minute and ...

The centrepiece of Bristol’s annual Slapstick Festival, the silent comedy gala at the Bristol Beacon, will be hosted by Sir ...

The largely forgotten work of unheralded but influential Vitagraph Studios is given new life thanks to the work of archivists and historians at the Library of Congress. While intrepid souls like film ...

If you’re more than a casual fan of the comedies of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, you might know Bobby Burns as a supporting player in their films. There was a time, however, before Laurel and Hardy’s ...