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Tom Hiddleston, Mark Hamill, Karen Gillan, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kate Siegel, Matthew Lillard, Benjamin Pajak and director Mike ...
No one talks like a human being in Mike Flanagan’s ambitious but confused three-part tale, which stars everyone from Chiwetel Ejiofor to Mark Hamill ...
Every once in a while, you’ll come across a movie that genuinely surprises you at every turn, and ‘The Life of Chuck' is ...
“I am large,” Walt Whitman wrote in The Song of Myself, “I contain multitudes,” an idea that consoles Marty Anderson ...
When that clicks into place, the film transmogrifies from a philosophical puzzle-box into a fuzzy-hearted bedtime story – ...
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and Charles ‘Chuck’ Krantz’s face is everywhere. Marty Anderson (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a middle school teacher with a big brain and a bigger heart, can’t quite ...
The final (first) act explains how, when Chuck was a young fellow, his grandmother taught him to love dance after his parents died, and, in a very Kingian touch, introduces us to a terrifying room at ...
Life does not end with its conclusion, but rather with its beginning. That’s what Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of Stephen King’s short story tells viewers in this bittersweet coming-of-age tale about ...
I’m still excited when somebody makes a movie out of something that I’ve done,” Stephen King recently told The Guardian. This ...
Director Mike Flanagan has proved himself to be King’s most sympathetic interpreter on film with The Life of Chuck, the story of a man’s life in three acts, told backwards.
As well as recurring characters, there are repeated themes such as Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Calendar, in which the 15 billion ...
Mike Flanagan's latest adaptation of Stephen King has some issues, but its fine performances and a fondness for theatricality ...