Some had also gained a ton of weight, which was astonishing: If you know you're going to be on movie and television screens at 49, how do you not go on a serious diet at 48? But at "56 Up ...

She likens inauguration meme coins to “tiny Ponzi schemes; the price goes up as long as people keep buying.” Being constructive matters. Arguably, we sometimes need someone to let some air out ...

To see “56 Up” is to be reunited with an old friend. Make that 13 old friends, together again for a documentary project the likes of which the world has never seen. It all started in 1964, ...

In “56 Up,” Apted skillfully weaves old footage ... becoming a rural politician and lay minister, bemoans that the movies have given him a strange kind of celebrity but no income or influence.

The Up Series is a series of documentary films produced by Granada Television that have followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old. The children ...

The eighth and latest edition is "56 Up," and it finds the subjects - their younger selves shown in clips from the previous films - now settling into late middle age, and taking time to reflect on ...

Filmed every 7 years, the Up children now turn 56. In 1964 a group of 7-year-old children were interviewed for the groundbreaking documentary 'Seven Up'. Michael Apted has been back to film them ...

Peter Howell is a Toronto-based movie critic and a freelance contributor to the Star. Follow him on Twitter: @peterhowellfilm.