Chuck Wilson

The decidedly peculiar new film from actor-turned-filmmaker Crispin Hellion Glover and co-director David Brothers is 80 minutes long, and it’s a good bet that you’ll spend much of that time checking your watch. If you stay (and you should), it’ll be a tribute to the film’s screenwriter, the late Steven......

As one of what novelist Stephen King calls his Constant Readers, I was as jazzed as every other monster-lovin’ geek when word came that filmmaker Frank Darabont was making a movie of King’s classic novella, The Mist. Cynics suggested that after tanking big time with his Frank Capra homage, The......

Movie freaks dream of programming the multiplex, or at least the local art house, and the American Cinematheque has momentarily granted the L.A. Film Critics Association the power to do so. For this minifestival, four LAFCA critics (including L.A. Weekly film editor Scott Foundas) will screen several undistributed films that......

Paul Schneider is having a moment. A double-whammy moment, actually. The 31-year-old actor, who hails from North Carolina and is still pretty new to Los Angeles, gives vibrant, revelatory supporting performances in two fall films — Lars and the Real Girl and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward......

Forty years ago this year, former Esquire magazine art director Robert Benton began his film career by co-writing, with David Newman, a little movie called Bonnie and Clyde. A decade later, he was winning Oscars for writing and directing Kramer vs. Kramer. Since then, Benton hasn’t hit it out of......

“Do ya’ll mind hanging back? You’re jamming my frequencies.” Thus speaks the psychic medium Tangina (played by the diminutive yet mighty Zelda Rubenstein), who arrives in the third act of the fun and still scary 1982 horror film Poltergeist to vanquish the spirits who’ve been terrorizing a suburban California family......

There have already been critical rumblings about the extreme violence in Shoot ’Em Up, but it’s hard to get too worked up about a film whose very title announces its maker’s intent, and which opens by raking the New Line Cinema corporate logo with machine-gun fire (a gesture long overdue)......