Charlie Chaplin

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06, Nov, 2024 @5:07 PM

Unfrosted to Old: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Jerry Seinfeld’s origin story of Pop-Tarts is a riotous comedy full of starry cameos, and M Night Shyamalan’s thriller about a secret beach has all the twists you would expect from the maker of The Sixth Sense
Simon Wardell
03, May, 2024 @8:00 AM

BlackBerry and Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Thrills abound in a smart, funny tale of mobile phone innovation, while Zack Snyder’s space opera returns for an epic battle
Simon Wardell
12, Apr, 2024 @8:00 AM

In 1924, cinema was hailed as an agent of world peace. Has it failed?
A century ago, the new artform was welcomed as an harbinger of universal harmony. Although it’s been pressed into service for darker aims since, some of that utopian spirit survives
Henry Roberts
23, Jan, 2024 @8:08 AM

‘His success was rammed down my throat’: Charlie Chaplin’s son Michael on fame, failure and finding peace
He was the son of the most famous man in the world, a runaway hippy, a failed pop singer and then a goat farmer. Now, Michael J Chaplin is publishing the novel it took him decades to write
Simon Hattenstone
15, Jan, 2024 @5:00 AM

Josephine Chaplin, actor and daughter of Charlie Chaplin, dies aged 74
Actor, who starred in films including 1971’s Canterbury Tales, died in Paris on 13 July, her family said
Edward Helmore in New York
21, Jul, 2023 @6:01 PM

The top 100 films… and what they say about our changing society
Offbeat British directors defying realist expectations fare well in poll, but Hitchcock dominates
Vanessa Thorpe
03, Dec, 2022 @6:39 PM

The best films of 2022 so far
Tilda Swinton aces Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s dreamy fable, director Clio Barnard’s forbidden affair and Catherine Clinch in The Quiet Girl rank in the pick of this year’s films
Guardian film
09, Jun, 2022 @6:03 AM

‘Shake it and see what happens’: the confounding world of James Thierrée
The circus star turns singer in his new show, Room, which is designed to embrace chaos. He talks about the mystery of theatre and his movie missions
Chris Wiegand
25, May, 2022 @8:49 AM

The Real Charlie Chaplin review – a gripping study of a complex superstar
From his impoverished alter ego to the many silenced women in his life, the real Chaplin continues to prove elusive – even in his own words – in this inventive documentary
Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
20, Feb, 2022 @8:00 AM

The Real Charlie Chaplin review – the elusive personality of the little tramp
New archive material brings Chaplin’s unparalleled celebrity, downfall and the women in his life into greater focus
Peter Bradshaw
16, Feb, 2022 @4:00 PM

Stealing Chaplin review – charm pays in messy crime caper
Sibling graverobbers spark off each other in the somewhat true story of an attempt to ransom the comedy legend’s body
Phil Hoad
29, Nov, 2021 @10:00 AM
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