Jackass is both a celebration of poor taste and a welcome elevation of the slapstick comedy tradition.

Buster Keaton was one of the most prolific filmmakers of the silent era, comparable only to his contemporaries Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd. Unlike Lloyd with his distinctive spectacles or ...

told through the interactions between silent film superstars Charlie Chaplin (David Scott) and Buster Keaton (David Boyll) on the set of one of Chaplin’s last movies, “Limelight,” in 1951.

Actors Nigel Bruce, Charlie Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Andre Eglevsky, Wheeler Dryden, Frank Hagney, Barry Bernard, Sydney Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Frank Mills, Stapleton ...