Play has its moments but falls into the usual trap of trying to cover too much ground. For a pleasing if derivative kickoff, young Charlie (Jake Schwenke) makes his London music-hall debut with mum ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

Chaplin the man is the subject of Peter Middleton and James Spinney’s feature-length documentary, which in its stream-of-consciousness approach and the supple, conversational narration of actress ...

In Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight, this line is part of a tender exchange that captures the film’s soul. Calvero, the faded ...

Limelight is billed as follows by La Jolla: "Charlie Chaplin came to America an unknown and left amidst scandals and controversy. In between, he became one of the best-loved and most famous ...

Charles Chaplin, for whom silence used to be golden, is furiously loquacious in “Limelight,” and while the ideas he is expounding are meritorious (he is in favor of charity and love), he pours them ...

While overseas promoting his film Limelight, Charlie Chaplin was banned from re-entering the United States by that persnickety cross-dresser, J. Edgar Hoover. Chaplin’s offense had nothing to do with ...

When Charlie Chaplin passed away on Christmas Day in 1977, aged 88, he left the screenplay for a last unfinished film titled “The Freak,” a passion project about a young woman with wings named Serapha ...

Sydney Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin’s son and himself a Tony-winning actor who starred on Broadway opposite Judy Holliday in “Bells Are Ringing” and Barbra Streisand in “Funny Girl,” has died at 82.