Chuck Wilson

BURNING PALMS In the most offensive of the five Los Angeles–based stories that make up this built-to-shock anthology film, a shy, hopelessly lonely copy-store clerk (Zoe Saldana) tracks down the man who raped her (Nick Stahl), asks him out to dinner, and then back to her place. (Hint: She does......

I WANT YOUR MONEY At the outset of this Obama-bashing, Republican Party–worshipping documentary — the Tea Party isn't mentioned until the last 15 minutes — filmmaker Ray Griggs promises to present both sides of the debate over small versus big government. Yet aside from Libertarian pundit John Stossel, Griggs' panel......

JIM Despairing that cancer took his wife before she could fulfill her dream of having a child, Jim (Dan Illian), an unemployed project manager, turns to a biotech firm that promises to use her frozen eggs to "build" a child with "enhanced" attributes of the sort that will lead it......

At the outset of this Obama-bashing, Republican Party–worshipping documentary—the Tea Party isn't mentioned until the last 15 minutes—filmmaker Ray Griggs promises to present both sides of the small- versus big-government debate. Yet aside from the Libertarian pundit John Stossel, Griggs's entire panel of experts are Republicans, including Mike Huckabee, Congressman......

CASE 39 Ten-year-old Lilith’s parents (Callum Keith Rennie and Kerry O’Malley, both terrific) want to “send her to Hell,” which must be why they’re digging that deep hole in the cellar. Called out to investigate a report of abuse, Portland social worker Emily Jenkins (Renee Zellweger) takes a shine to......

HATCHET II In the 2007 indie horror hit, Hatchet, a hulking, facially deformed ghoul named Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder) slaughtered a boatful of Louisiana bayou tourists as revenge for his own murder, and that of his father, years before. The only survivor was Marybeth (Danielle Harris), a college girl who......

CHOSIN This year marks the 60th anniversary of North Korea's invasion of South Korea, an event that caught the United States and its allies off guard. Although the U.S. ultimately prevailed over the Soviet-backed North Koreans and their Chinese allies, the first year in this three-year war was something of......