Chuck Wilson

TRAVELING ON A CITY BUS FROM HER home in East L.A. to her last day at Beverly Hills High School -- a journey three transfers and several worlds apart -- 18-year-old Ana Garcia (America Ferrera, a real find, in her film debut) looks up from her literature text and notices......

"ED WOOD HAD AN OFFICE HERE, OR SO THEY say," Greg Ptacek declares, clearly pleased that he and co-director Christina Soletti are launching the third Silver Lake Film Festival from such auspicious digs, located above the beloved Vista Theater. "D.W. Griffith too," Soletti chimes in. "He built sets for Intolerance......

Over and over again in this haunting film based on the life of yet another Wisconsin serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer (Jeremy Renner), with a look of fascination on his face, places his ear against the rib cage of the young man he‘s just murdered, straining to hear . . ......

IN THE 1940s TRINIDAD DESCRIBED in Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul's first novel, The Mystic Masseur, "massagers" -- men who claimed to have a mysterious gift for healing the sick and soothing troubled souls -- were as endemic to the Indian immigrant community of that underdeveloped island as storefront psychics are......

Offscreen and on, Gloria Grahame always fell for the wrong man. Married four times, the movie star, whose work is getting a two-week retrospective at UCLA, chose, unfailingly, men who were overbearing, egotistical and, generally speaking, bad news. These personal missteps served her well in front of the camera, where......

Growing up in the suburbs of Atlanta, I was movie-mad. I saw everything and kept a scrapbook of clipped-out movie ads underneath which I wrote short reviews, while on my bedroom door I posted each year a 10-best list, written in multicolored markers. I was intense about it all, and......

The John Cassavetes–Gena Rowlands house, in a canyon off Mulholland, is as familiar to art-house moviegoers as Tara is to those who’ve never heard of these two film artists. The long, steep driveway, the yellow awning over the carport, the window behind the living-room sofa, the dark paneling, even the......

”A crowd will part for a drag queen as it parts for a nun.“ Such an intimate take on drag mystique is jarring when spoken by John Cameron Mitchell, who at first impression has the composed, clothes-always-pressed demeanor of the perennial good boy. And yet, for seven years this boyishly......

Few hoary old movie tricks are as pleasing as a really good avalanche, especially one that begins with some poor schnook yelling ”Avalanche!“ just before getting trounced by a curling wall of pure white snow. Happily, there‘s more than one such moment in Vertical Limit, a thriller that, at its......