Worth remembering that in 1952, Chaplin - for 40 years maybe the most famous man in the world - had his visa revoked as he sailed for Europe. J. Edgar Hoover didn't like that he was a vaguely left-wing pacifist who slept around. He never really got over it. His creativity didn't.
The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism.
Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.
January 9, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Worth remembering that in 1952, Chaplin - for 40 years maybe the most famous man in the world - had his visa revoked as he sailed for Europe. J. Edgar Hoover didn't like that he was a vaguely left-wing pacifist who slept around. He never really got over it. His creativity didn't.
My favourite take on this, just in sheer absurdity, is the 2018 Robin Hood where the entire first act is shot like an Iraq War movie, complete with Saracens ambushing English longbowmen with automatic crossbow emplacements and shoulder fired scatterbows. It's such a pristine parody of the genre.
January 5, 2026 at 7:02 PM
My favourite take on this, just in sheer absurdity, is the 2018 Robin Hood where the entire first act is shot like an Iraq War movie, complete with Saracens ambushing English longbowmen with automatic crossbow emplacements and shoulder fired scatterbows. It's such a pristine parody of the genre.