You’re at home with your friends or family. The turkey is gone. The football game is over. The conversation is slowing. What can everyone do to keep the holiday spirit alive? Well, 2025 has been a pretty fantastic year for movies, and many of the best ones released this year are streaming right now in […]
The 15 Best Genre Movies of Summer 2025 (and Where to Watch Them)
A few short weeks remain in the 2025 summer movie season, and we have to say, it’s been a pretty great one. Lots of the big blockbusters really delivered. Lots of smaller films came out of nowhere to surprise us. And even a few streaming titles made their mark. Below, we’ve got our choices for the […]
Let’s Talk About the Ending of ‘The Life of Chuck’
“I am large, I contain multitudes.” That quote by poet Walt Whitman looms large over The Life of Chuck, the latest Stephen King adaptation by writer-director Mike Flanagan. It fascinates the title character while he’s in school and, eventually, speaks to the film as a whole, which may leave one or two people scratching their […]
‘The Life of Chuck’ May Change the Way You Look at Movies and Yourself
This review of The Life of Chuck, the new film by Mike Flanagan based on a novella by Stephen King, starts in 1994. I was only 14 years old, still educating myself in the world of movies, when I found myself sitting down to see this new one everyone was talking about called Pulp Fiction. […]
How Mike Flanagan Will Make ‘Carrie’ Feel Like a New Story
Horror and literature fans alike will be excited to hear that seasoned Stephen King cinematic universe storyteller Mike Flanagan has something new planned for his Carrie adaptation. The eight episode mini-series proposed by Amazon was an idea Flanagan initially balked at. He told Variety, “I initially thought, ‘Why? It’s been done.” You can’t blame him […]
‘The Life of Chuck’ Is the Movie Mike Flanagan Wants to Be Remembered For
Filmmaker Mike Flanagan has already created quite a legacy for himself. From his films like Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s Game, to shows like The Fall of the House of Usher, Midnight Mass, and The Haunting of Hill House, Flanagan has basically become his own brand, especially in the horror genre. And yet, even though he’s […]
Life of Chuck’s Mysterious Teaser Wants You to Know It’s Got Names
Mike Flanagan has established himself very firmly as a serial adapter of Stephen King stories: he made the theatrical film Doctor Sleep, based on the sequel to King’s The Shining; Netflix film Gerald’s Game, based on King’s “unfilmable” novel; and he has a Carrie series coming to Prime Video. He’s also long been noodling on […]