MOVIE REVIEW: The Artist

If Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo” was a loving history lesson about cinema in one of its earliest eras, “The Artist” is a direct visual homage to the films of that time period, as well as an example of filmmaking in its most basic form. It is the type of movie you suspect stumbled out of a time capsule from the early 1930s. Its only colors are black and white, there is virtually no spoken dialogue or