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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 ...
The Life of Chuck showcases King’s continuing interest in narrative experimentation, even in this late phase of a long ...
Fans eager to own a physical copy of one of Flanagan's best movies don't have long to wait to add it to their collection.
When that clicks into place, the film transmogrifies from a philosophical puzzle-box into a fuzzy-hearted bedtime story – ...
Every once in a while, you’ll come across a movie that genuinely surprises you at every turn, and ‘The Life of Chuck' is ...
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.
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 ...
As well as recurring characters, there are repeated themes such as Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Calendar, in which the 15 billion ...
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 ...
Based on Stephen King ‘s novella of the same name, “The Life of Chuck” is told in reverse, following Tom Hiddleston’s Chuck Krantz from his death and ending with his early childhood.
“I am large,” Walt Whitman wrote in The Song of Myself, “I contain multitudes,” an idea that consoles Marty Anderson ...
If you’ve followed Stephen King for any length of time, you know the legendary author isn’t shy about sharing his opinions on ...