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Charlie Chaplin

Superboys of Malegaon movie review: making movies with his friends

Fri, Mar 07, 2025
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Gentle, charming dramedy about pals in middle-of-nowhere India making amateur movies. The giddy glee in this winsome portrait of geeky passion and enduring friendship is all-around infectious.

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curated: always be nyuk-nyuk-ing Nazis

Wed, May 22, 2019
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How have I never heard about these Three Stooges shorts before?

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John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum movie review: symphony in order and chaos

Wed, May 15, 2019
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Modern noir god Keanu Reeves again stalks a fantasy(ish) world of exhausting, inventive violence. But this time, the curtain is drawn back on the sham of seeming orderliness in its world (and ours).

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The Death of Stalin movie review: the great dictator

Wed, Oct 25, 2017
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Audacious, outrageous, bleakly funny. Not since Charlie Chaplin sent up Hitler and invited us to laugh at terrible reality has there been a movie like this.

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from Pinterest: Fred Astaire and Charlie Chaplin graffiti (London photo)

Sun, Sep 04, 2016
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London photo: Little Tramp statue outta nowhere

Tue, Apr 08, 2014
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I’ve been in London for more than three years, and I’m in Leicester Square all the time, and I have never noticed this statue of Charlie Chaplin before.

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The Great Dictator (retro trailer)

Sun, Apr 22, 2012
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If you’re tempted to complain that Sacha Baron Cohen’s upcoming The Dictator is in bad taste, take a look at how Charlie Chaplin’s similar The Great Dictator was promoted back in 1940…

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Hollywood’s pre Hays Code, pre MPAA rules for movies (and other adventures in social networking)

Mon, Feb 20, 2012
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What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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watch it: Charlie Chaplin’s Great Dictator has some good advice for us today

Wed, Jan 18, 2012
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“The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress…”

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question of the day: Was a time traveler caught on film in 1928?

Thu, Oct 28, 2010
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Cuz it sure does look like a woman talking into a mobile phone at the 1928 premiere of a Charlie Chaplin movie! There’s video and everything!

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