Mike Flanagan’s gooey, well-acted “The Life of Chuck” stars Tom Hiddleston as an everyman with earnest life lessons to impart.

If you want a lot of horror, find another Stephen King movie. But if you want a big heart, "The Life of Chuck" is a brilliant and soulful tale.

Stephen King ’s first editor, Bill Thompson, once said, “Steve has a movie camera in his head.” So vividly drawn is King’s fiction that it’s offered the basis for some 50 feature films. For half a century,