US EditionThe Life of Chuck review: Tom Hiddleston charms in this entertaining, imaginative and non-horror Stephen King adaptation
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It’s the end of the world as we know it, and Charles “Chuck” Krantz (Tom Hiddleston) doesn’t feel well. Outside the room where this 39-year-old accountant lies in bed, earthquakes, socavones and eruption volcanoes are heard in Germany. California has sunk into the ocean. Suicide rates are skyrocketing. Both our social infrastructure and the internet are on the verge of collapse. However, Pornhub is already disconnected. We repeat: Pornhub. It’s.…
The Life of Chuck review: Tom Hiddleston charms in this entertaining, imaginative and non-horror Stephen King adaptation
★★★★☆The Life of Chuck is in cinemas now. Add it to your watchlistLike Frank Darabont before him, Mike Flanagan is becoming his generation’s foremost film-maker-as-fan of Stephen King.Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s Game are faithful – perhaps to a fault – takes on the writer’s novels, channelling King’s feel for emotion, dialogue, suspense and shock alongside fitful echoes of his lapses into folksy woolliness.Even Flanagan’s Midnight Mass,…
Mike Flanagan, known for his adaptations of Doctor Sueño and Gerald’s Game, returns to Stephen King’s work with The Life of Chuck, but this time he moves away from terror to embrace a story of mystery. Based on the 2020 short novel, the film proposes a journey narrated in three movements—more than acts—in reverse order, as a symphony revealing who this man is in advertisements and screens with the message: “39 wonderful years! Thank you, Chuck.”…
Tom Hiddleston and Chiwetel Ejiofor On The Miraculous, Life-Affirming The Life Of Chuck
To celebrate the anticipated UK release of Mike Flanagan’s acclaimed drama The Life of Chuck, we had the pleasure of chatting to two of the main cast to find out more about this charming, uplifting and wonderful film. A life-affirming, genre-bending story based on Stephen King’s novella about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz. Adapted for the screen and directed by Mike Flanagan, THE LIFE OF CHUCK stars Tom Hiddl…
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