The Life of Chuck sets us a cosmic riddle: what does the end of the world have to do with Tom Hiddleston smiling in a ...

The Life of Chuck showcases King’s continuing interest in narrative experimentation, even in this late phase of a long ...

The latest adaptation by Mike Flanagan is a real crowd-pleaser – even if schmaltz occasionally overrides substance.

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.

I am large,” Walt Whitman wrote in The Song of Myself, “I contain multitudes,” an idea that consoles Marty Anderson (Chiwetel ...

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 Life of Chuck is a 2024 American science fiction drama film written and directed by Mike Flanagan. It is based on the ...

The actor stretches himself as a Midwestern accountant confronted with mortality in a twisty Stephen King-based story ...

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 ...

As well as recurring characters, there are repeated themes such as Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Calendar, in which the 15 billion ...

The Life of Chuck proves that structure is the most important aspect of King’s writing, as the manner in which the story plays out is what allows it to have such emotional resonance.

Adapted by horror maestro Mike Flanagan from a lesser-known 2020 Stephen King novella, The Life of Chuck is an ambitious and ...