Review: ‘Life of Chuck’ is a Stephen King movie that gets it right

Most know Stephen King as today’s most revered horror author, the expert conjurer of the kinds of macabre souls that are embedded in our nightmares — the killer clown Pennywise from “It,” the all-work-and-no-play Jack Torrance from “The Shining” and the wackadoodle fan Annie Wilkes from “Misery.”

Those are but a few of King’s most memorable troublemakers. But the King of Horror occasionally shows his softer, more reflective side. The one that propels “The Life of Chuck,” a moving novella...