Trader Joe's Silent Movie Mondays wrap up tonight at the Paramount -- the redoubtable Dennis James on the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ -- with a trifecta of Charlie Chaplin shorts from 1917: The Cure, The Immigrant, and The Adventurer. Tickets are $12. The show starts at 7pm, but if you get there early, you can hear Freehold Theatre's George Lewis talk about Chaplin's contribution to the field of physical comedy. In the first short, an alcoholic......

The triple play kicks off at 7pm tonight at the Paramount Theatre: Chaplin's One A.M., The Count, and The Pawnshop, all from 1916. There are no little tramps in these shorts, just a very drunk guy who's attacked by his house as he tries to sneak in late, a tailor's assistant ensnared in high society hi-jinks, and an assistant in a pawnshop who turns out to be a one-man wrecking machine. Just so you know,......

SILENT MOVIES: It seems like only yesterday we were announcing Silent Movie Mondays' Harold Lloyd retrospective. But all good things must come to end, and frankly it's just in time because SIFF and STIFF are cranking up. First -- this is important -- the last double-feature is this Friday, despite the series being named Silent Movie Mondays. That's right, keep arms and fingers inside the ride at all times. To close out the series, we......

SILENT MOVIES: It's Week II of the Paramount's Harold Lloyd retrospective. Silent Movie Mondays brings you Dennis James on the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ and ought to be on one of those things-to-do-before-you-die list because that's just the kind of experience it is. Of course, if you're into fast-paced comedies, it's just something-to-do-tonight and there's no reason to make a big fuss about it. Trader Joe's is the sponsor, by the way, and they're being......

FACT: On August 24, 1919, film star Harold Lloyd -- while posing for publicity shots in which he was lighting a cigarette from a lit bomb -- blew the thumb and forefinger off his right hand. "Somehow," accounts explain, "a real bomb had gotten mixed in with the props." In 1923, as if to underscore learning nothing from the experience, he released one of the most famous films of all time, Safety Last! (Which......