Chuck Wilson

Samuel L. Jackson, who is taller than me and probably taller than you, strides into an L.A. hotel room, smiles, shakes my hand, and says, "Hey. How ya doing?" Taking his seat, the actor takes a deep breath, then lets it out with a slight puff of his cheeks, like......

True story: A guy all alone in a motel room answers the bedside phone. There's a woman on the other end. She sounds young and hot, and, before he knows it, they're having phone sex. The woman begins calling the guy's cell every day, and soon he's having an intense......

On a thunderously rainy Los Angeles afternoon, one can do worse than spend an hour on the phone with actor William Hurt. In conversation, the Oscar winner reveals himself to be much like the screen characters who first made him famous: brainy, passionate and a damn good talker. Hurt, 59,......

Colin Firth, the British actor who wooed Bridget Jones in two films and who somehow managed to retain his dignity while singing an ABBA tune in Mamma Mia!, looks a bit bleary-eyed, as if he’s been standing before his hotel-room mirror and splashing cold water on his face, cajoling himself......

Completing his multifilm vendetta against the world’s tourist trade, German-born director Roland Emmerich sends the mother of all storms to level the Washington Monument, the Eiffel Tower and a priest-filled Vatican City (among other locales) in his newest end-times thriller, 2012. From Independence Day (1996) to The Day After Tomorrow......

In the lushly produced but dispiriting new comedy The Ugly Truth, Katherine Heigl stars as Abby Richter, a successful but hopelessly uptight TV producer who is also perpetually single. Ever efficient, Abby does background checks on the men she meets, and takes along on the first date a 10-point checklist......

“Listen, children, to a story that was written long ago ... ” So begins “One Tin Soldier” the relentlessly catchy theme song to Billy Jack, the 1971 cult film classic about a karate-chopping half-white/half-Indian ex–Green Beret who tends to “go berserk” when he sees Native Americans being abused by redneck......

There isn’t a filmmaker in the world who wouldn’t envy the compliment once paid to director Jan Troell by a fellow Swede named Ingmar Bergman. Although the two filmmakers first met in 1966 when Troell was 35 and releasing his debut feature, Here Is Your Life, it was some years......

Ask Viola Davis if she was able to sleep the night before filming her intensely dramatic scene with Meryl Streep in Doubt, and the 43-year-old actress throws her head back and laughs. “I did not sleep one wink,” she says. “I got up. I looked at the script. I paced,......

Swedish filmmaker Jan Troell makes long movies that often don’t feel long enough. A former schoolteacher who cut his teeth on documentaries, Troell serves as the co-writer, cinematographer and editor on nearly all of his films, a feat that even dazzled critic Pauline Kael, who called him a “master.” Troell......