Chuck Wilson

”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......

If you had driven past Mann's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard two Mondays ago, you would have been greeted by all the familiar trappings of a movie premiere: red carpet, searchlights crisscrossing the night sky, anxious tourists straining at barricades. "Just another premiere," you might have thought as you peered......

Angie Dickinson is sitting three rows behind me, and I can't stop whipping my head around to stare at her. Definitely not cool. We are in the Motion Picture Academy theater in Beverly Hills, where staring is a deadly sin. Stare and they know you don't really belong. But it's......