Email Author Chuck Wilson

2013 Stories by Chuck Wilson

• Watch Erased with the Sound Off and You'll Still Know What's Going On

  published May 15, 2013

  Mix a dollop of The Bourne Identity, a dash (or two) of Taken, and a pinch of the spy classic Three Days of the Condor... More >>

• The Body Count Rises With Relentless Precision in No One Lives

  published May 8, 2013

  The body count rises with bloody, relentless precision in No One Lives, an old-fashioned slasher flick masquerading as a kidnapping... More >>

• Aftershock Can't Make Torture Fun

  published May 8, 2013

  As an artist, Eli Roth always seeks to elevate the human spirit. Whether he's working as writer-director (Hostel), as producer (The... More >>

• The Numbers Station Draws Soulful Performances from John Cusack and Malin Akerman

  published April 24, 2013

  A thriller that focuses on only two key characters shouldn't be hard to explain, yet the plot specifics of the unexciting but sweetly... More >>

• Rob Zombie's Surprisingly Somber Lords of Salem Is Never Really Scary

  published April 17, 2013

  After two Halloween remakes, rock star turned filmmaker Rob Zombie has penned a somber, surprisingly tame tale of witchcraft and... More >>

• Antiviral: All in the (Cronenberg) Family

  published April 10, 2013

  A loving family thrives on its traditions, and so it is that the debut feature from writer-director Brandon Cronenberg proves to be just as... More >>

• Brady Corbett Explains How A Nice Guy Became Simon Killer

  published April 3, 2013

  "Can you speak up a little, man? I dove off a boat yesterday, and I now have an immense amount of water in my ear!" Brady Corbet, 24, is on... More >>

• The Story of Luke Could Use More Grit

  published April 3, 2013

  A feel-good story about an autistic man's quest for independence, The Story of Luke is a charming little film in need of a bit more... More >>

• Lotus Eaters, Beautifully Photographed and Maddeningly Shallow

  published April 3, 2013

  About a third of the way through this frustrating 80-minute film, English musician Johnny Flynn, portraying a charismatic drug addict, sings an... More >>

• Evil Dead: Dare Ya Not to Look

  published April 3, 2013

  In this wittily gory remake of the revered 1981 debut of Oz the Great and Powerful filmmaker Sam Raimi, five college-age friends go to... More >>

• Living Happily Ever After for the Silent Snow White of Blancanieves Might Prove Difficult

  published March 27, 2013

  The new film from Spanish writer-director Pablo Berger is a silent, black-and-white film so witty, riveting, and drop-dead gorgeous that... More >>

• The Sapphires: Full of Easy Pleasures

  published March 20, 2013

  This fact-based, girl-group empowerment story never quite soars, but has its easy pleasures, and it’s likely to become one of those... More >>

• The Kill Hole's Mess Is Saved By Its Talented Cast

  published March 13, 2013

  Serious-minded to a fault, this debut feature from writer-director Mischa Webley is a bit of a mess, but committed work from a talented cast... More >>

• The Silence: History Repeats Itself

  published March 6, 2013

  Making his feature debut, Swiss-born writer/director Baran bo Odar has turned Jan Costin Wagner’s 2007 novel The Silence into a... More >>

• The Condemned: As Tame as "Horror" Gets

  published February 27, 2013

  Writer-director Roberto Busó-Garcia's Spanish-language movie is so tame and so completely boring that to advertise it a horror film is... More >>

• Bullet to the Head: Rocky Still Packs a Mean Right Hook

  published January 30, 2013

  Jimmy Bobo (Sylvester Stallone) and his partner, Louis (Jon Seda), have just killed a guy in New Orleans—they're professional hit... More >>