NEW YORK (AP) — The microbudget movie "Hundreds of Beavers” has turned into lo-fi legend. Mike Cheslik’s film, made for just $150,000 and self-distributed in theaters, has managed to gnaw its way into ...

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HOLLYWOOD, CA — Akiva Schaffer’s “The Naked Gun” doesn’t just dust off the trench coat — it tailors it anew for a world obsessed with emojis. The result? A riotously funny reboot reimagined for the ...

Back when I was in middle school, the world was hit with something called slap bracelets. They are stripes of sheet metal bent into a slightly parabolic shape, which, once manipulated, would roll onto ...

As captivating as an Oscar-winning drama can be, sometimes you just want to watch a dumb, goofy comedy with actors doing dumb, goofy things. Slapstick comedies don’t often get the critical acclaim ...

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, ...

When Chris isn’t working on a new article or exploring the best nature spots nearby, he's gotten into making TikTok edits. While he works on other personal projects, he has turned his attention to ...

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 ...

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 ...