Email Author Chuck Wilson

2012 Stories by Chuck Wilson

• Tom Cruise Scores as the Strapping Jack Reacher

  published December 19, 2012

  In his 2005 novel One Shot, writer Lee Child lays out nine rules for surviving a five-against-one alley fight, a challenge his hero, the... More >>

• American Empire: An Act of Collective Madness

  published December 19, 2012

  "We've traded our Declaration of Independence for dependence on corporations and our Bill of Rights for corporate rights," writer-director... More >>

• Chasing Ice

  published November 7, 2012

  If you recently had a close encounter with the howling demon known as Hurricane Sandy, you might have a renewed belief in global warming. If... More >>

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  Citadel

  published November 7, 2012

  Reportedly inspired by a violent mugging experienced by writer-director Ciarán Foy, this hopelessly muddled horror movie takes place in... More >>

• Dust Up

  published October 24, 2012

  Billy Jack meets Rob Zombie meets John Waters in this trippy, gory, not-as-fun-as-it-should-be genre mash-up from writer-director Ward... More >>

• The Flat

  published October 17, 2012

  It begins as an ordinary, if bittersweet, family event. The 98-year-old grandmother of Israeli filmmaker Arnon Goldfinger has died, and as this... More >>

• Nobody Walks

  published October 17, 2012

  For her evocative third feature, writer-director Ry Russo-Young has collaborated with filmmaker-actress Lena Dunham (Tiny Furniture,... More >>

• Paranormal Activity 4

  published October 17, 2012

  Are you an electronics moron? Are you incapable of shooting a cell phone video, much less managing the intricacies of a Web cam chat?... More >>

• Smiley

  published October 10, 2012

  Tell a die-hard horror-movie fan that the latest scary movie is the worst thing ever, and that fan will nod respectfully but still make plans to... More >>

• End of Watch

  published September 19, 2012

  Born in 1968, filmmaker David Ayer grew up in the infamously troubled region known as South Central Los Angeles. As an adult, his Hollywood... More >>

• The Oregonian

  published June 6, 2012

  The unnamed Oregonian in question, a young woman (Lindsay Pulsipher) in her twenties, is having a bad day of Lynchian proportions. Bloody and... More >>

• Hick

  published May 9, 2012

  The white trash family of 13-year-old Luli (Chloé Moretz) includes drunken parents (Juliette Lewis and Anson Mount) and an uncle whose... More >>

• Kicking and Screaming

  published May 9, 2012

  Guaranteed to make most men feel woefully unprepared for a fistfight to the death, these five action flicks from After Dark Films—each of... More >>

• Jesus Henry Christ

  published May 2, 2012

  "Egg, meet sperm. Sperm, my mother." And so it is that 10-year-old Henry James Herman (Jason Spevack) introduces his mother, Patricia (Toni... More >>

• No Sparks: The Chemistry Fizzles in Notebook-lite The Lucky One

  published April 18, 2012

  It’s Nicholas Sparks’ world; we just live in it. Sparks, in case you haven’t scanned the paperback racks lately,... More >>

• ATM

  published April 4, 2012

  When pulling up to a remote ATM kiosk at 1 a.m. in subfreezing wind, it's generally unwise to park 100 feet from the door. Sure, the brisk run... More >>

• Kill List

  published February 1, 2012

  Hit men have bills to pay, too, and sometimes a kid to feed and an anxious wife to placate even as they worry that their reputation in the... More >>