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Cameron Olsen has a boundless passion for the art of cinema, and loves nothing more than to closely examine the great works thereof. He has a bachelor’s degree in film from the University of Utah, and ...

Slapstick is making something of a comeback, with two film seasons already this year celebrating silent comedy and a BBC series about the genre scheduled for the Spring. So why is no one making new ...

Slapstick is one of the most recognisable forms of comedy, and it is one of the first that we are introduced to as humans. While satire, verbal gags and other forms of comedy require some degree of ...

Slapstick tends to involve lots of physical comedy, broadly appealing humor, and comic violence, so the idea of a slapstick action movie really isn't too out-there. Sure, lots of action movies don’t ...

There were a few moments in the Three Stooges showing I attended during which the generally festive audience became unnerved. The one I remember most prominently: when Moe held Curly* down and spent ...

Shooting Stars, Anthony Asquith’s sharp-edged 1928 satire of the film industry, proves the lure of the behind-the-cameras drama is almost as old as cinema itself It makes sense that movies should be ...

Slapstick comedy is at least as old as Shakespeare and originally employed—you guessed it—a slapstick. The original slapstick was a paddle made from two planks of wood. Applied to the posterior of a ...

The term 'slapstick comedy' is given to comedy characterized by broad humour, absurd situations and vigorous chases, often violent in action. The term 'slapstick comedy' is given to comedy ...

Producer and writer Larry Charles has revealed that he and Bob Dylan conceived a surrealist comedy series for HBO in the Nineties that never came to fruition. “He’d gotten deeply into Jerry Lewis, and ...