We’re looking at which of the films is the most frightening. Spoiler alert, it’s not the one where Chucky and Tiffany have a kid. To be fair, it’s really not trying to be scary. It’s mostly trying to ...
One of the most astounding abilities of cinema is when it holds a massive screen-sized mirror up to the human experience and gives us moments of deep reflection. The camera, while pointed at a subject ...
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” One can imagine that sentiment splashed across a lobby poster for Mike Flanagan’s “The Life of Chuck,” based on a Stephen King ...
Mike Flanagan's new film The Life of Chuck is a metaphor. It's a fairy tale, adapted from a short story by Stephen King, told backwards. Explaining the ending means explaining the beginning. If you're ...
It’s a basic whiteboy dork sentiment but I have to own it: Stephen King is my favorite author. No other writer of fiction captures my imagination and my emotions like that doofus from Maine. When he ...
As the film opens, Walt Whitman poetry is being read in an English class and a teacher named Marty Anderson (Chiwetel Ejiofor) has a complicated crisis surrounding him. Not only does the internet go ...
Tom Hiddleston leads an all-star cast in this Mike Flanagan adaptation of a novella by Stephen King, opening wide June 13. Reading time 4 minutes This review of The Life of Chuck, the new film by Mike ...
The Life of Chuck, director Mike Flanagan’s movie adaptation of the Stephen King story starring Tom Hiddleston, is reportedly coming soon to streaming. The Life of Chuck opened in limited release in ...
What is the value of a human life? I mean, a single human life? How much does any one individual person matter, considered against the grand sweep of history and the cosmos? That’s the question that ...
Despite the lackluster reception, the film takes everything that is great about the franchise and turns it into the best film in the series. Whether it’s the unique take on sexuality or the ...