Topic: Charlie Chaplin

Sacha Baron Cohen's 'The Dictator': movie review (+trailer)

Sacha Baron Cohen's film is funny for about half its running time, and the lack of improvisation in the movie is somewhat stifling.

A look at a classic: Charlie Chaplin in 'Modern Times'

Charlie Chaplin’s 75-year-old 'Modern Times' applies just as much to 1936′s factory work as it does to 2011′s technological work. 

Classic review: Bob Dylan in America

Sean Wilentz's study of enigmatic music icon Bob Dylan is at once a time-hopping biography; a catalog of Dylan’s myriad, eclectic influences; and a primer on American music.

Charlie Chaplin's 122nd birthday celebrated with special Google doodle

Google honors Charlie Chaplin on his 122nd birthday, which is April 16th, with a Youtube video.

American Idol Top 13: Paul McDonald introduces JLo to Ryan Adams

America Idol Top 13: On Wednesday night, Paul McDonald chose alt-country Ryan Adams' music and Pia Toscano took on Eric Carmen's 'All by Myself.'

The Illusionist: movie review

A rich, moving, animated film, 'The Illusionist' draws from a script by Jacques Tati and has a haunting Chaplinesque feel. Not to be missed.

Charlie Chaplin time traveler debunked: It's just a hearing aid

Charlie Chaplin time traveler: A scene of a supposed time traveler talking on her cellphone in a 1928 Hollywood film probably just shows someone with a simple ear trumpet.

Top 10 time travelers

Strictly speaking, we're all one-way time travelers: plodding forward through the progress of existence second-by-second. And thanks to special relativity, you could, in principle, skip ahead into the future by traveling at a very high speed relative to your contemporaries. But that, too, would be a one-way trip.

As for travel back in time? Some physicists cautiously speculate that it is possible, but only time will tell. In the meantime, here are our top ten favorite fictional time travelers.

Time traveler caught on film. Hey, why not?

Time traveler caught on film: An Irish filmmaker has uncovered evidence of a woman speaking into a cellphone in a 1928 Charlie Chaplin film. And clearly there's no other possible explanation.

Bob Dylan in America

Bob Dylan was not so much a sponge as an alchemist, taking common materials and creating new art.

Tom Cruise: Hollywood superstar or jump-on-Oprah's-couch weirdo?

Tom Cruise has the new movie 'Knight and Day' where he might be able to reestablish himself as a Hollywood dynamo. Or is he just too weird?

Controversy flourishes at Toronto film fest

Michael Moore's latest, along with a spotlight on films from Tel Aviv, brings out the protesters, while others swoon over Clooney.

People Making A Difference: Chrissie Lam

This New York fashion designer taps the talents of her fellow artists to help the orphans of Rwanda.

Review: 'Ponyo'

Japanese animator Miyazaki's latest film is a captivating tale of a tiny fish who jumps out of the ocean to see the world.

Review: 'O'Horten'

A train engineer's take on retirement slips into the absurd in this surreal Norwegian comedy from director Bent Hammer.

Sunnyside

An ambitious, intelligent, overstuffed novel about three years in the life of Charlie Chaplin

My husband the gourmet

When it comes to the culinary life, I clearly married up.

The man behind the Phillie Phanatic

Tom Burgoyne makes green fur a marketing coup as pro sports' top mascot.

The future that young Russians want

The Putin generation is often worldly, optimistic, and enthusiastic about democracy – as they define it.

Remembering the 'war' years

Steve Martin's new memoir, 'Born Standing Up,' is a thorough analysis of the thought processes that helped the Texas-born comic take his banjo and his balloon animals, and turn them into the biggest draw of the 1970s.