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

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,

Tom Hiddleston dances his way through a movie about death and dystopia, based on a Stephen King story, that has an incongruous feel-good vibe.