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Fun Size Review: City Lights (1931)
Charlie Chaplin makes an eloquent (and silent) defense of the art of pantomime in this sensitive dramedy with a deceptively simple story. He is a tramp who loves a blind flower girl and he will do anything to help her get her sight back. A ballet of slapstick blends with gentle melancholy.
MoreFun Size Review: Parisian Love (1925)
Clara Bow is the only thing that makes this faux French romance worth seeing. A gangster gal with a heart of pyrite, Clara’s boyfriend is kidnapped by an eccentric rich guy who is determined to make an honest man of him. Clara responds with staging a seduction of her own. None of this is as […]
MoreFun Size Review: The New York Hat (1912)
It’s the story of an impoverished teen, a kindly minister, gossipy neighbors and a $10 hat. Griffith spins an alluring confection of small town America that both satirizes and celebrates the culture. Lionel Barrymore and Mary Pickford are excellent as the innocent pair who find themselves the subject of slander. If it were a dessert […]
MoreFun Size Review: Friends (1912)
Henry B. Walthall is a slick miner. Mary Pickford is the local lady of the evening. Lionel Barrymore is Henry’s rootin’-tootin’ pal. Both guys like Mary but who will win the day? This is a short subject from D.W. Griffith extolling the virtues of male friendship. Some very fine acting from Mary. If it were […]
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