10 Great Laurel and Hardy Movies to Watch Before Stan & Ollie. By Keith Phipps, a freelance film critic and culture writer. Dec. 27, 2018. save d. Save this article to read it later.

The temptation for headline writers everywhere, one can imagine, will be to describe the flawed but embraceable Laurel and Hardy biopic "Stan & Ollie" as "another fine mess." That one's just too ...

But I’m here to tell you not to sleep on “Stan & Ollie .” It is simply terrific — an understated but smartly told crowd-pleaser about the legendary comedy duo in their last act, with wonderful ...

“Stan & Ollie” is very much a movie about trying to relive the old days despite the realities of, well, getting old. What the movie lacks in narrative fireworks it makes up for in sublime acting.

By 1953, when Stan & Ollie takes place, Laurel and Hardy’s career was an actual mess, catchphrase be damned. Movie audiences had forsaken them in favor of the louder antics of Abbott and ...

For much of the affair, “Stan & Ollie” – a portrait of a specific time in the lives and careers of famed comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy – feels a little tired, perhaps too much ...

When the first true Laurel and Hardy picture hit theaters in 1927, Stan was already 37 and Oliver 35. The duo would go on to make more than 100 shorts and features together over their career and ...

Steve Coogan and Chicago native John C. Reilly are set to play Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in Jon S. Baird’s movie “Stan & Ollie.”“Philomena” writer Jeff Pope has written the script for ...

We see them in their prime, but most of the movie takes place later, in the 1950s in England, where Ollie, played by John C. Reilly, and Stan, given life by Coogan, are hoping for a comeback.

Stan Laurel, the skinny and bewildered half of the famed Laurel and Hardy comedy team, died Tuesday of a heart attack. He was 74. An invalid since he had a stroke in 1955, the lovable comic ...

There are lot of movies in theaters right now trying to grab your attention, and dollars, from big superhero spectacles and musical extravaganzas to awards darlings and wannabes. It's easy to get ...