Director Mike Cheslik and co-writer/star Ryland Tews’ second feature collaboration is a DIY delight, reinventing silent comedy on its own antic terms. It begins with a bona fide production number ...

A modern silent slapstick comedy, "Hundreds of Beavers," is having its Boston-area premiere at the Somerville Theater tonight, and is showing through March 7. Radio Boston sits down with the movie's ...

Slapstick comedy is a purposefully exaggerated form of performance that can portray a cartoonish reality. In the world of slapstick, characters are constantly getting hurt, mugging their faces, ...

In one film, a housemaid is lighting a fire when she spontaneously combusts out of the chimney. Her body parts rain down on the village. When she returns, as a ghost, to her gravestone, the audience ...