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Chuck Wilson

Chuck Wilson is a regular film contributor at Voice Media Group and its film partner, the Village Voice. VMG publications include LA Weekly, Denver Westword, Phoenix New Times, Miami New Times, Broward-Palm Beach New Times, Houston Press and Dallas Observer.

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Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk Does James Baldwin Proud

By Chuck Wilson
Jan 2, 2019

Baldwin’s central story, dialogue and time-jumping narrative structure are all in place, but so, too, is a sumptuous visual style that serves to deepen the novelist’s themes of racial injustice and the powerful countering force of love
Chalamet, Carell Face Cycles of Addiction in Tender Beautiful Boy

By Chuck Wilson
Oct 25, 2018

For Nic and his family, rehab becomes sobriety becomes relapse, a pitiless cycle of hope and disappointment too many of us will experience at one time or another, either as addict or loved one
Tom of Finland Gives a Boldly Gay Artist the Too-Polite Movie Treatment

By Chuck Wilson
Oct 31, 2017

When same-sex marriage became legal in Finland this past March, the government celebrated by releasing an official emjoi — a leather-clad man with a drooping mustache and a police-style cap emblazoned with the word “Tom.” No explanation was necessary, for “Tom” was clearly a nod to Tom of Finland —...
Churchill Squanders History and an Ace Brian Cox Performance

By Chuck Wilson
May 31, 2017

There will always be, it’s become clear, one more Winston Churchill story to tell: one more slant on a weekend, a summer, a year in the life of the 20th century’s most formidable leader, a man whose history includes two world wars and speeches so glorious that future dramatizations were...
A Good Guy’s Darkness: Relishing Bill Paxton in One False Move and A Simple Plan

By Chuck Wilson
Mar 1, 2017

Movie actors intend no less than to live forever, a goal that seems likely for the ever-likable, endlessly surprising Bill Paxton, who died last weekend at age 61 from complications following heart surgery. (Too damn soon.) No softie, Paxton created memorable movie villains, including the loves-his-work vampire in Near Dark...

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