A Haunting in Venice is the third entry in Kenneth Branagh‘s Hercule Poirot film franchise. Directed by Branagh himself from a screenplay by Michael Green, the film is based on a 1969 novel titled Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie. A Haunting in Venice sees the return of Hercule Poirot as he takes on another murder mystery during a Halloween Seance at a haunted palazzo in Venice, Italy. So, if you loved A Haunting in Venice here are some similar movies you should check out next.
The Pale Blue Eye (Netflix) Credit – Netflix
Synopsis: West Point, 1830. In the early hours of a gray winter morning, a cadet is found dead. But after the body arrives at the morgue, tragedy becomes savagery when it’s discovered that the young man’s heart has been skillfully removed. Fearing irreparable damage to the fledgling military academy, its leaders turn to a local detective,...
The Pale Blue Eye (Netflix) Credit – Netflix
Synopsis: West Point, 1830. In the early hours of a gray winter morning, a cadet is found dead. But after the body arrives at the morgue, tragedy becomes savagery when it’s discovered that the young man’s heart has been skillfully removed. Fearing irreparable damage to the fledgling military academy, its leaders turn to a local detective,...
- 9/16/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Take a look at new footage from the period, horror mystery feature "The Pale Blue Eye" , written and directed by Scott Cooper, adapting the 2006 novel by Louis Bayard, starring Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Toby Jones, Harry Lawtey, Simon McBurney, Timothy Spall and Robert Duvall, now streaming on Netflix:
"...in 1830, detective 'Augustus Landor' investigates a series of killings at the US Military Academy at 'West Point'...
"...assisted by 'Edgar Allan Poe', a young cadet at the academy..."
Click the images to enlarge...
"...in 1830, detective 'Augustus Landor' investigates a series of killings at the US Military Academy at 'West Point'...
"...assisted by 'Edgar Allan Poe', a young cadet at the academy..."
Click the images to enlarge...
- 1/21/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
This post contains spoilers for the ending of "The Pale Blue Eye."
With a 130-minute runtime, Netflix's "The Pale Blue Eye," based on the novel by Louis Bayard, reaches a fiery climax with about half an hour left to go. Just when you think it's over and detective Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) has solved the central murder mystery, the movie keeps going, delivering a final twist ending on top of that.
Viewers are with Landor the whole film as he investigates the grisly death and organ removal of more than one cadet at the West Point military academy with the help of his new friend, Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling). Suspicion falls on the Marquis family, and in a histrionic scene, we see three members of that family, including Poe's love interest, Lea Marquis (Lucy Boynton), about to remove his telltale heart in a Satanic ritual.
Landor comes to...
With a 130-minute runtime, Netflix's "The Pale Blue Eye," based on the novel by Louis Bayard, reaches a fiery climax with about half an hour left to go. Just when you think it's over and detective Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) has solved the central murder mystery, the movie keeps going, delivering a final twist ending on top of that.
Viewers are with Landor the whole film as he investigates the grisly death and organ removal of more than one cadet at the West Point military academy with the help of his new friend, Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling). Suspicion falls on the Marquis family, and in a histrionic scene, we see three members of that family, including Poe's love interest, Lea Marquis (Lucy Boynton), about to remove his telltale heart in a Satanic ritual.
Landor comes to...
- 1/13/2023
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
No, the public has not tired of hearing about Prince Harry. Sales for Spare have placed the Duke of Sussex in some rarefied company.
Penguin Random House announced Wednesday that first-day sales for the Harry tell-all memoir topped 1.4 million copies, a record pace for nonfiction from a company that also publishes Barack and Michelle Obama, whose Becoming needed a week to reach 1.4 million when it was released in 2018.
The sales figures for Spare include hardcover, audiobook and e-book editions sold in the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom.
“Spare is the story of someone we may have thought we already knew, but now we can truly come to understand Prince Harry through his own words,” Gina Centrello, president and publisher of the Random House Group, said in a statement.
“Looking at these extraordinary first-day sales, readers clearly agree, Spare is a book that demands to be read, and it...
Penguin Random House announced Wednesday that first-day sales for the Harry tell-all memoir topped 1.4 million copies, a record pace for nonfiction from a company that also publishes Barack and Michelle Obama, whose Becoming needed a week to reach 1.4 million when it was released in 2018.
The sales figures for Spare include hardcover, audiobook and e-book editions sold in the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom.
“Spare is the story of someone we may have thought we already knew, but now we can truly come to understand Prince Harry through his own words,” Gina Centrello, president and publisher of the Random House Group, said in a statement.
“Looking at these extraordinary first-day sales, readers clearly agree, Spare is a book that demands to be read, and it...
- 1/12/2023
- by Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Written and directed by Scott Cooper, Netflix’s The Pale Blue Eye gazes on the young poet Edgar Allan Poe, played by Harry Melling, who would go on to invent the detective mystery with his short story “Murders at the Rue Morgue.” Based on Louis Bayard’s 2006 novel, The Pale Blue Eye is set in 1830 at the West Point Military Academy where the body of Cadet Leroy Fry (Matt Heim) is found hanging from a tree with his heart cut out of his chest.
Poe entered West Point as a cadet on July 1, 1830. By October he had enough of the regiment and got himself purposely court-martialed, refusing to attend formations, classes, or church services. Poe was tried for gross neglect of duty and disobedience of orders on Feb. 8, 1831. Knowing he would be found guilty, Poe pled not guilty to ensure the final verdict would get him kicked out.
At this...
Poe entered West Point as a cadet on July 1, 1830. By October he had enough of the regiment and got himself purposely court-martialed, refusing to attend formations, classes, or church services. Poe was tried for gross neglect of duty and disobedience of orders on Feb. 8, 1831. Knowing he would be found guilty, Poe pled not guilty to ensure the final verdict would get him kicked out.
At this...
- 1/12/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Netflix kicked off 2023 by dropping a thrilling mystery-drama with a star-studded cast - "The Pale Blue Eye," starring Christian Bale, Lucy Boynton ("Bohemian Rhapsody"), and Gillian Anderson. The film follows 1830s detective Augustus Landor (Bale) as he teams up with Edgar Allen Poe (Harry Melling) to solve a series of murders in West Point, NY.
While "The Pale Blue Eye" includes American detective novelist and poet Edgar Allen Poe as a character, it is not based on a true story. The murder mystery, however, does include ties to real-life events that occurred in the American literary genius's life. Read on to find out which true facts were included in the streamer's film adaptation of Louis Bayard's novel by the same name.
What Is True About Edgar Allen Poe in "The Pale Blue Eye"?
In the film, tenured detective Landor is enlisted to investigate murders at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
While "The Pale Blue Eye" includes American detective novelist and poet Edgar Allen Poe as a character, it is not based on a true story. The murder mystery, however, does include ties to real-life events that occurred in the American literary genius's life. Read on to find out which true facts were included in the streamer's film adaptation of Louis Bayard's novel by the same name.
What Is True About Edgar Allen Poe in "The Pale Blue Eye"?
In the film, tenured detective Landor is enlisted to investigate murders at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
- 1/9/2023
- by Simrin Purhar
- Popsugar.com
“I remember the first time I heard of Poe was on a ‘Simpson’s’ episode,” recalls Harry Melling, with a smile, of how he learned about the famed American writer Edgar Allan Poe. In director Scott Cooper’s new Netflix film “The Pale Blue Eye,” the actor takes on the challenge of portraying the iconic poet and short-story writer. While he remembers having previously read “The Tell-Tale Heart,” he explored “most of” the works in Poe’s vast catalogue to prepare. He relied most heavily on the early poem “Tamerlane,” which he says “gave me a real insight into how he saw himself as a very intellectual poet.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
To tackle the daunting task of playing such a towering figure of American literature, Melling dug into research. He shares that he initially felt, “I need to read everything. I need to read as much as possible,...
To tackle the daunting task of playing such a towering figure of American literature, Melling dug into research. He shares that he initially felt, “I need to read everything. I need to read as much as possible,...
- 1/9/2023
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
Stars: Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Gillian Anderson, Robert Duvall, Timothy Spall | Written and Directed by Scott Cooper
West Point, 1830. In the early hours of a grey winter morning, a cadet is found dead. But after the body arrives at the morgue, tragedy becomes savagery when it’s discovered that the young man’s heart has been skillfully removed. Fearing irreparable damage to the fledgling military academy, its leaders turn to a local detective, Augustus Landor (Christian Bale), to solve the murder. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, Landor enlists the help of one of their own to pursue the case, an eccentric cadet with a disdain for the rigours of the military and a penchant for poetry — a young man named Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling).
Anybody that knows me knows that I’m a complete sucker for murder mystery thrillers. There’s just something so incredibly comforting and...
West Point, 1830. In the early hours of a grey winter morning, a cadet is found dead. But after the body arrives at the morgue, tragedy becomes savagery when it’s discovered that the young man’s heart has been skillfully removed. Fearing irreparable damage to the fledgling military academy, its leaders turn to a local detective, Augustus Landor (Christian Bale), to solve the murder. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, Landor enlists the help of one of their own to pursue the case, an eccentric cadet with a disdain for the rigours of the military and a penchant for poetry — a young man named Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling).
Anybody that knows me knows that I’m a complete sucker for murder mystery thrillers. There’s just something so incredibly comforting and...
- 1/9/2023
- by Caillou Pettis
- Nerdly
‘The Pale Blue Eye’ – How the Netflix Movie Partially Captures the Dark Heart of Its Source Material
Edgar Allan Poe is known in the literary world as the imagination behind some of history’s most haunting stories. From “The Pit and the Pendulum” to “The Raven,” Poe’s legacy as one of the great American poets and authors of horror fiction is firmly established. But Poe steps into the spotlight in Scott Cooper’s Netflix adaptation of The Pale Blue Eye, a historical novel by Louis Bayard.
Set in 1830, during the brief time Poe was a cadet at West Point, Bayard’s novel follows retired detective Gus Landor (Christian Bale) as he endeavors to find a killer roaming the snowy academy grounds. He enlists a young cadet named Edgar Allen Poe (Harry Melling) to be his eyes and ears among the soldiers. As the mystery unfolds and Poe and Landor grow closer to their primary suspects, the Marquis family, we find that no one is precisely who they seem to be.
Set in 1830, during the brief time Poe was a cadet at West Point, Bayard’s novel follows retired detective Gus Landor (Christian Bale) as he endeavors to find a killer roaming the snowy academy grounds. He enlists a young cadet named Edgar Allen Poe (Harry Melling) to be his eyes and ears among the soldiers. As the mystery unfolds and Poe and Landor grow closer to their primary suspects, the Marquis family, we find that no one is precisely who they seem to be.
- 1/9/2023
- by Jenn Adams
- bloody-disgusting.com
The mystery thriller The Pale Blue Eye stars Christian Bale as renowned detective Augustus Landor as he’s hired to track down a murderer. Though it’s based on a book by Louis Bayard, the narrative is not a true story. However, in Scott Cooper’s movie adaptation, which has landed on Netflix, there are elements of truth, notably around the young man who assists Landor at the military academy he is investigating—one Edgar Allan Poe. Brit Harry Melling plays Poe, the real life writer who would go on to be known as the godfather of the murder mystery, as well as a celebrated writer of macabre stories and poems.
“Much like Edgar Allan Poe himself, I spent my formative years in the state of Virginia,” Cooper says while explaining his personal connection to the story. “My father taught English and literature and after my first film, Crazy Heart,...
“Much like Edgar Allan Poe himself, I spent my formative years in the state of Virginia,” Cooper says while explaining his personal connection to the story. “My father taught English and literature and after my first film, Crazy Heart,...
- 1/9/2023
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
Dudley Dursley is all grown up! And he’s playing Egar Allan Poe! Harry Melling effectively channeled the macabre poet/author for Scott Cooper’s film adaptation of Louis Bayard’s “The Pale Blue Eye.” In the film, Melling goes wit by wit against Christian Bale who plays the retired veteran detective Augustus Landor. So what was his
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- 1/9/2023
- by manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Every year it seems like there’s a handful of weird cinematic coinky-dinks, like how 2022 managed to give us three “Pinocchio” movies, two unrelated Disney blockbusters about underwater blue people, and three ensemble comedy whodunits with blink-and-you’ll-miss-it theatrical releases. But perhaps most specific of all, and sneaking in right under the wire, is the new microgenre of films about a young Edgar Allan Poe solving murders while he was a cadet at West Point.
Following in the footsteps of Christopher Hatton’s stylish but troubled “Raven’s Hollow,” Scott Cooper’s “The Pale Blue Eye” tells the story of a mysterious murder and mutilation at the famous military academy. Christian Bale plays a retired detective, Augustus Landor, who gets called forth to investigate the crime, and along the way he allies himself with the unusually sensitive and erudite Mr. E. A. Poe, played by Harry Melling (“Please Baby Please...
Following in the footsteps of Christopher Hatton’s stylish but troubled “Raven’s Hollow,” Scott Cooper’s “The Pale Blue Eye” tells the story of a mysterious murder and mutilation at the famous military academy. Christian Bale plays a retired detective, Augustus Landor, who gets called forth to investigate the crime, and along the way he allies himself with the unusually sensitive and erudite Mr. E. A. Poe, played by Harry Melling (“Please Baby Please...
- 1/7/2023
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
This article contains minor The Pale Blue Eye spoilers.
Based on a novel by Louis Bayard and not true events, director Scott Cooper’s period thriller The Pale Blue Eye imagines a young Edgar Allan Poe, as played by Harry Melling, in the short handful of months he attended West Point Academy as a cadet. By this time, Poe had already published two books of poetry and served in the U.S. Army before matriculating at the military school on the Hudson River. He had not yet invented the detective mystery genre with “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” published in Graham’s Magazine in 1841. Hence the film offers a theoretical scenario for its inspiration: The tortuous murder, and grisly desecration, of Cadet Leroy Fry (Matt Heim) is committed on the school’s periphery, and a killer is at large.
The Pale Blue Eye stars Christian Bale as retired constable Augustus Landor,...
Based on a novel by Louis Bayard and not true events, director Scott Cooper’s period thriller The Pale Blue Eye imagines a young Edgar Allan Poe, as played by Harry Melling, in the short handful of months he attended West Point Academy as a cadet. By this time, Poe had already published two books of poetry and served in the U.S. Army before matriculating at the military school on the Hudson River. He had not yet invented the detective mystery genre with “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” published in Graham’s Magazine in 1841. Hence the film offers a theoretical scenario for its inspiration: The tortuous murder, and grisly desecration, of Cadet Leroy Fry (Matt Heim) is committed on the school’s periphery, and a killer is at large.
The Pale Blue Eye stars Christian Bale as retired constable Augustus Landor,...
- 1/7/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
It’s the first week of a new year, and 2023 is going to be absolutely loaded with new horror. As always, we’ll be providing you with week-by-week previews of what’s being released.
Let’s get right into things, shall we?
Here are the first four horror releases of 2023, which are all out Now!
The 2023 horror season kicks off with the critically acclaimed M3GAN (read Meagan’s review), which is now playing in theaters. The premise? It’s essentially Annabelle meets Terminator!
M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a life-like doll programmed to be a child’s greatest companion and a parent’s greatest ally. Designed by brilliant toy-company roboticist Gemma (Get Out’s Allison Williams), M3GAN can listen and watch and learn as she becomes friend and teacher, playmate and protector, for the child she is bonded to.
When Gemma suddenly becomes the caretaker of her orphaned 8-year-old niece,...
Let’s get right into things, shall we?
Here are the first four horror releases of 2023, which are all out Now!
The 2023 horror season kicks off with the critically acclaimed M3GAN (read Meagan’s review), which is now playing in theaters. The premise? It’s essentially Annabelle meets Terminator!
M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a life-like doll programmed to be a child’s greatest companion and a parent’s greatest ally. Designed by brilliant toy-company roboticist Gemma (Get Out’s Allison Williams), M3GAN can listen and watch and learn as she becomes friend and teacher, playmate and protector, for the child she is bonded to.
When Gemma suddenly becomes the caretaker of her orphaned 8-year-old niece,...
- 1/6/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
“We had lots of books around my house and lots of Poe,” remembers writer-director Scott Cooper of his earliest encounters with the work of fabled American poet Edgar Allan Poe, who is a central character in the filmmaker’s latest effort, “The Pale Blue Eye.” Over a decade ago, Cooper’s father recommended the novel of the same name by Louis Bayard to him as a “pleasure” read, describing the book as a “most ingenious” work that puts a young Poe at the heart of a grisly murder mystery. The screenwriter felt it would translate well to screen and would offer audiences a unique Poe “origin story.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
Cooper relished the opportunity and “dangerous” challenge of putting the popular figure of Poe on screen. He shares that he hoped to change audiences’ “preconceived notions about who Poe was,” transcending the “dark, brooding, and melancholy” characterizations...
Cooper relished the opportunity and “dangerous” challenge of putting the popular figure of Poe on screen. He shares that he hoped to change audiences’ “preconceived notions about who Poe was,” transcending the “dark, brooding, and melancholy” characterizations...
- 1/6/2023
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
It’s 1830 on the snowy New York campus of the United States Military Academy and a young cadet has been found hanged. The coroner and others will eventually discover that the man’s heart has been stolen from his chest and a portion of a note, yet to be deciphered, has been hidden away, clutched in the dead man’s hardened grip. Not to worry: Christian Bale is on the case. The Pale Blue Eye stars Bale as Detective Augustus Landor, the kind of guy whose reputation (a dead wife,...
- 1/6/2023
- by K. Austin Collins
- Rollingstone.com
(L to R) Christian Bale as Augustus Landor and Harry Melling as Edgar Allen Poe in The Pale Blue Eye. Photo Credit: Scott Garfield/Netflix © 2022
At West Point in 1830, a cadet is found hanged, in an apparent suicide, but then the body is mutilated – by removing the heart. A former New York constable with a tragic past is brought in to investigate, and the detective enlists the help of an eccentric, clever young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe, in the Gothic murder mystery tale The Pale Blue Eye.
Edgar Allan Poe really did go to West Point briefly but the story in The Pale Blue Eye is purely fictional, based on the novel by Louis Bayard. Christian Bale plays the detective Augustus Landor, with a wonderful Harry Melling playing the young Edgar Allan Poe. Having the author who is credited with creating the fictional detective as a character in a...
At West Point in 1830, a cadet is found hanged, in an apparent suicide, but then the body is mutilated – by removing the heart. A former New York constable with a tragic past is brought in to investigate, and the detective enlists the help of an eccentric, clever young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe, in the Gothic murder mystery tale The Pale Blue Eye.
Edgar Allan Poe really did go to West Point briefly but the story in The Pale Blue Eye is purely fictional, based on the novel by Louis Bayard. Christian Bale plays the detective Augustus Landor, with a wonderful Harry Melling playing the young Edgar Allan Poe. Having the author who is credited with creating the fictional detective as a character in a...
- 1/6/2023
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Pale Blue Eye is a film written and directed by Scott Cooper starring Christian Bale, Harry Melling and Gillian Anderson. It is based on the novel by Louis Bayard.
‘The Pale Blue Eye’ is an entertaining thriller set in the era when E. A. Poe was a young cadet at West Point. It follows a classic murder mystery structure, with a development that, however much we try to convince ourselves otherwise, begged for more intensity.
Premise
A seasoned detective investigates a series of murders at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point in 1830. He is assisted in his investigation by an intelligent and eager young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe, who will go on to become one of America’s most influential authors and the originator of the detective genre.
The Pale Blue Eye (2022) Movie Review
Here we have a thriller that promises more than it delivers. It...
‘The Pale Blue Eye’ is an entertaining thriller set in the era when E. A. Poe was a young cadet at West Point. It follows a classic murder mystery structure, with a development that, however much we try to convince ourselves otherwise, begged for more intensity.
Premise
A seasoned detective investigates a series of murders at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point in 1830. He is assisted in his investigation by an intelligent and eager young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe, who will go on to become one of America’s most influential authors and the originator of the detective genre.
The Pale Blue Eye (2022) Movie Review
Here we have a thriller that promises more than it delivers. It...
- 1/6/2023
- by Martin Cid
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
Plot: West Point, 1830. A world-weary detective is hired to discreetly investigate the gruesome murder of a cadet. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case — a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.
Review: The Pale Blue Eye is a film I have been looking forward to since it was announced that Netflix had bought the rights back in 2021. Based on the novel by Louis Bayard, the whodunit chronicles a mystery featuring a brilliant detective and a historical figure. This combination works wonderfully in this film thanks to the talents of Christian Bale and Harry Melling as two very different characters. Writer/director Scott Cooper, known for his distinct style, has long pursued adapting The Pale Blue Eye, and his passion shows in the finished product. Still, despite the competency and talent involved in bringing this story to the screen,...
Review: The Pale Blue Eye is a film I have been looking forward to since it was announced that Netflix had bought the rights back in 2021. Based on the novel by Louis Bayard, the whodunit chronicles a mystery featuring a brilliant detective and a historical figure. This combination works wonderfully in this film thanks to the talents of Christian Bale and Harry Melling as two very different characters. Writer/director Scott Cooper, known for his distinct style, has long pursued adapting The Pale Blue Eye, and his passion shows in the finished product. Still, despite the competency and talent involved in bringing this story to the screen,...
- 1/6/2023
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
Director Scott Cooper‘s The Pale Blue Eye is a subtle, restrained work of suspense for fans of the slow-burn murder mystery genre. Even its most exciting action scene comes across as more realistically perilous than cinematically frightening. The film, which reimagines the real-life Edgar Allan Poe during his younger years at West Point, has its blemishes, but these offenses do not include Harry Melling, who occasionally looks like a touched-up vintage photograph of Poe, or Christian Bale, who stars as Augustus Landor, the damaged detective desperate to control the chaos.
Based on Louis Bayard’s 2006 novel, The Pale Blue Eye, the criminal act which incites the plot is instantly riveting. In the winter of 1830, West Point Military Academy Cadet Leroy Fry (Matt Heim) is found hanging from a tree branch, torturously on the verge of touching the ground, and when the corpse is brought in for medical examination, someone...
Based on Louis Bayard’s 2006 novel, The Pale Blue Eye, the criminal act which incites the plot is instantly riveting. In the winter of 1830, West Point Military Academy Cadet Leroy Fry (Matt Heim) is found hanging from a tree branch, torturously on the verge of touching the ground, and when the corpse is brought in for medical examination, someone...
- 1/6/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Take a look at new footage from "The Pale Blue Eye" horror mystery feature, written and directed by Scott Cooper, adapting the 2006 novel by Louis Bayard, starring Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Toby Jones, Harry Lawtey, Simon McBurney, Timothy Spall and Robert Duvall, streaming January 6, 2023 on Netflix:
"...in 1830, detective 'Augustus Landor' investigates a series of killings at the US Military Academy at 'West Point'...
"...assisted by 'Edgar Allan Poe', a young cadet at the academy..."
Click the images to enlarge...
"...in 1830, detective 'Augustus Landor' investigates a series of killings at the US Military Academy at 'West Point'...
"...assisted by 'Edgar Allan Poe', a young cadet at the academy..."
Click the images to enlarge...
- 1/6/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Netflix’s The Pale Blue Eye strains itself as a self-serious mix of thriller, murder mystery, and period piece drama. Following in the blood trail left by Christopher Hatton’s artful, but mediocre Raven’s Hollow, Scott Cooper’s The Pale Blue Eye follows a shadowy story of mutilation and murder at the famous military academy Westpoint where Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling) was stationed for a time in 1830. with a penchant for the natural world draped in shadows and natural lights of the time. The sense of place is there even if the story is a bit wispy, like tendrils of blood from a dead man’s hand dissolving in a bathtub.
Cooper’s directorial style surprisingly doesn’t ponder too much over Poe and his predilections as a storied American author. The obligatory raven shot or grisly murder scenes are here, but The Pale Blue Eye works on...
Cooper’s directorial style surprisingly doesn’t ponder too much over Poe and his predilections as a storied American author. The obligatory raven shot or grisly murder scenes are here, but The Pale Blue Eye works on...
- 1/6/2023
- by Kyle Lemmon
- DailyDead
The opening image of "The Pale Blue Eye" reveals "a young cadet who has met his maker hanging from a noose on a tree next to the Hudson River." That's how filmmaker Scott Cooper describes the shot from what he calls his most accessible film, a gothic murder mystery set in the 19th century. The director behind "Crazy Heart," "Hostiles," and "Out of the Furnace" is no stranger to bleakness, but in the case of his latest film, he gets to play with Edgar Allan Poe's macabre sense of humor to make a movie that is, in fact, his most conventionally entertaining movie.
Based on Louis Bayard's novel, the story follows a young Poe (Harry Melling) and a weary detective, Augustus Landor (Christian Bale), joining forces to solve a series of murders in West Point, New York. Often, "The Pale Blue Eye" plays as a buddy comedy between the two men,...
Based on Louis Bayard's novel, the story follows a young Poe (Harry Melling) and a weary detective, Augustus Landor (Christian Bale), joining forces to solve a series of murders in West Point, New York. Often, "The Pale Blue Eye" plays as a buddy comedy between the two men,...
- 1/5/2023
- by Jack Giroux
- Slash Film
Edgar Allan Poe turns detective in “The Pale Blue Eye,” an 1830s-set Gothic mystery that explores the writer’s formative years at the West Point military academy in upstate New York.
Written and directed by Scott Cooper, who adapted Louis Bayard’s novel of the same name, the Netflix film (streaming on January 6) stars Christian Bale as Augustus Landor, a hard-bitten detective haunted by a past tragedy.
Continue reading ‘The Pale Blue Eye’: Scott Cooper & Harry Melling Discuss Crafting A Mystery Worthy of Edgar Allan Poe [Interview] at The Playlist.
Written and directed by Scott Cooper, who adapted Louis Bayard’s novel of the same name, the Netflix film (streaming on January 6) stars Christian Bale as Augustus Landor, a hard-bitten detective haunted by a past tragedy.
Continue reading ‘The Pale Blue Eye’: Scott Cooper & Harry Melling Discuss Crafting A Mystery Worthy of Edgar Allan Poe [Interview] at The Playlist.
- 1/4/2023
- by Isaac Feldberg
- The Playlist
Antlers director Scott Cooper‘s serial killer thriller The Pale Blue Eye, which includes legendary writer Edgar Allan Poe among its cast of characters, received a limited theatrical release on December 23rd, and is now set to reach the Netflix streaming service this Friday, January 6th. With its Netflix debut so close, this seemed like a good time to share a batch of character posters that offer a look at the characters that Christian Bale (The Dark Knight), Harry Melling (The Queen’s Gambit), Gillian Anderson (The X-Files), Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody), and the great Robert Duvall (The Godfather) play in the film. You can check those out at the bottom of this article.
Based on a novel by Louis Bayard (pick up a copy Here), The Pale Blue Eye has the following synopsis: West Point, 1830. In the early hours of a gray winter morning, a cadet is found dead. But...
Based on a novel by Louis Bayard (pick up a copy Here), The Pale Blue Eye has the following synopsis: West Point, 1830. In the early hours of a gray winter morning, a cadet is found dead. But...
- 1/4/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Happy New Year! 2023 hits the ground running with rare horror gems, brand-new releases, and catchup titles from last year. If this is a sign of what’s to come, we might be in for another stellar year of horror. As always, we’ll be on the front lines each and every day.
Here are ten noteworthy horror titles available for streaming in January 2023 on some of the most popular streaming services, along with when/where you can watch them.
The Menu – HBO Max
Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy in the film The Menu. Photo by Eric Zachanowich. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2022 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved
An ensemble of affluent patrons gathers at the exclusive Hawthorne Island for a dining experience run by prestigious Chef Slowik (Ralph Fiennes). The guests soon realize what devious, deadly dishes the Chef intends to serve. The Menu may have gathered a fine cast for this delectable culinary nightmare,...
Here are ten noteworthy horror titles available for streaming in January 2023 on some of the most popular streaming services, along with when/where you can watch them.
The Menu – HBO Max
Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy in the film The Menu. Photo by Eric Zachanowich. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2022 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved
An ensemble of affluent patrons gathers at the exclusive Hawthorne Island for a dining experience run by prestigious Chef Slowik (Ralph Fiennes). The guests soon realize what devious, deadly dishes the Chef intends to serve. The Menu may have gathered a fine cast for this delectable culinary nightmare,...
- 1/3/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Just imagine if famed master of macabre fiction Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling) had started his career as an aspiring poet… and a West Point cadet with a string of murders to investigate. That’s the conceit in The Pale Blue Eye, premiering Friday, January 6 on Netflix. This moody 19th century gothic mystery takes a dark turn when Poe’s classmates are being killed and, gruesomely, stripped of their tickers. In this film based on Louis Bayard’s 2006 novel, the clever Poe is tapped to help catch the killer by a world-weary retired detective, Augustus Landor (Christian Bale). Landor has been recruited by top military brass to solve things fast and hush it up. As for The Queen’s Gambit alum’s young poet, Melling says he finds a comrade in Landor. “Poe is a witty, intellectual show-off constantly looking for a sense of family and belonging. He finds it...
- 1/2/2023
- TV Insider
Happy New Year! That’s certainly what the movie industry is hoping for after what was a tumultuous 2022 (although not without its lucrative silver linings). The movie industry remains in a state of flux, however it’s not all doom and gloom for cinema. In fact, 2023 is shaping up to be a big year for studios relying on franchises and tentpoles (just scroll down for further evidence of that!), as well as a year that will bring us new auteur pieces from the likes of Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, Taika Waititi, and Greta Gerwig (with nothing less than a Barbie movie!). Exciting times, indeed.
Here is a list of just a handful of the movies to look forward to over the next 12 months.
M3GAN
January 6
If you think January is going to be a complete wasteland at the multiplex then you obviously don’t know about M3GAN yet.
Here is a list of just a handful of the movies to look forward to over the next 12 months.
M3GAN
January 6
If you think January is going to be a complete wasteland at the multiplex then you obviously don’t know about M3GAN yet.
- 1/2/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Christian Bale did not exhibit Method acting techniques during Netflix period piece “The Pale Blue Eye,” according to co-star Harry Melling.
The “Harry Potter” and “Queen’s Gambit” alum recalled working alongside Academy Award winner Bale for the mystery-thriller. Bale plays a former detective who is forced out of retirement to investigate a series of hangings alongside Edgar Allan Poe (Melling). The film is based on the novel by Louis Bayard and helmed by Scott Cooper (“Crazy Heart”), with Bale also producing.
“My experience working on it was that we’d turn up, not really talk about the scene, and just start playing it,” Melling told The Independent of working with Bale, citing the fact that he “doesn’t really know” what constitutes Method acting. “There was no staying in character, but I guess you’re always held within some form of character just because you’re wearing the clothes...
The “Harry Potter” and “Queen’s Gambit” alum recalled working alongside Academy Award winner Bale for the mystery-thriller. Bale plays a former detective who is forced out of retirement to investigate a series of hangings alongside Edgar Allan Poe (Melling). The film is based on the novel by Louis Bayard and helmed by Scott Cooper (“Crazy Heart”), with Bale also producing.
“My experience working on it was that we’d turn up, not really talk about the scene, and just start playing it,” Melling told The Independent of working with Bale, citing the fact that he “doesn’t really know” what constitutes Method acting. “There was no staying in character, but I guess you’re always held within some form of character just because you’re wearing the clothes...
- 1/1/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Take a look at new footage from "The Pale Blue Eye" horror mystery feature, written and directed by Scott Cooper, adapting the 2006 novel by Louis Bayard, starring Lucy Boynton, Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Gillian Anderson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Toby Jones, Harry Lawtey, Simon McBurney, Timothy Spall and Robert Duvall, releasing in theaters December 23, 2022, followed by streaming January 6, 2023 on Netflix:
"...in 1830, detective 'Augustus Landor' investigates a series of killings at the US Military Academy at 'West Point'...
"...assisted by 'Edgar Allan Poe', a young cadet at the academy..."
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"...in 1830, detective 'Augustus Landor' investigates a series of killings at the US Military Academy at 'West Point'...
"...assisted by 'Edgar Allan Poe', a young cadet at the academy..."
Click the images to enlarge...
- 12/24/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Poe Boy: Cooper Fails to Find the Exquisite Beauty in Eerie, Dreary Period Mystery
You’ll certainly be reduced to the mindset of the weak and weary after pondering the endless midnight dreary of Scott Cooper’s The Pale Blue Eye. Yet another stab at genre following his more vivacious (by comparison) examination of the Wendigo legend in 2021’s Antlers (read review), this adaptation of the 2003 romanticized plundering of Edgar Allan Poe by Louis Bayard likely reads better as printed pulp than visualized as a glossy, gothic whodunit.
Cooper’s third outing with Christian Bale (serving as producer) following the stilted melodrama 2013’s Out of the Furnace (read review) and their portrait of the harrowing heritage of white man’s violence in Hostiles (2017) denies the celebrated actor any room to stretch (seeing as he plays another disenchanted wretch who’s headhunted for his specific skills as a dramatic catalyst).…
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You’ll certainly be reduced to the mindset of the weak and weary after pondering the endless midnight dreary of Scott Cooper’s The Pale Blue Eye. Yet another stab at genre following his more vivacious (by comparison) examination of the Wendigo legend in 2021’s Antlers (read review), this adaptation of the 2003 romanticized plundering of Edgar Allan Poe by Louis Bayard likely reads better as printed pulp than visualized as a glossy, gothic whodunit.
Cooper’s third outing with Christian Bale (serving as producer) following the stilted melodrama 2013’s Out of the Furnace (read review) and their portrait of the harrowing heritage of white man’s violence in Hostiles (2017) denies the celebrated actor any room to stretch (seeing as he plays another disenchanted wretch who’s headhunted for his specific skills as a dramatic catalyst).…
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- 12/22/2022
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
“The Pale Blue Eye” is one of those movie titles that’s evocative yet teasingly vague — it makes the film sound like a Western based on a song by Lou Reed. Actually, the movie is based on Louis Bayard’s 2006 novel, which uses an 1830s military setting and murder mystery to frame a kind of origin story of Edgar Allan Poe. At West Point, which in the early 19th century is basically a fort in the woods overlooking the Hudson River, a cadet suffers a violent death. He is cut down from a noose hanging from a tree branch (his feet were touching the ground), but it’s what happens after he dies that counts: Someone has made a vertical incision in his chest and removed his heart.
Christian Bale plays Augustus Landor, the haunted eccentric detective who is brought in by the West Point brass to solve the crime.
Christian Bale plays Augustus Landor, the haunted eccentric detective who is brought in by the West Point brass to solve the crime.
- 12/22/2022
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
One of America’s literary greats, Edgar Allan Poe is most associated with horror thanks to his macabre, Gothic poetry and short stories. But the writer is also often credited with being a detective fiction pioneer. Director Scott Cooper’s The Pale Blue Eye, an adaptation of Louis Bayard’s novel, crafts a fictional Gothic whodunnit around Poe’s tenure as a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. The languid Gothic murder mystery is more interested in examining how Poe’s life experiences may have influenced his work, resulting in a quiet, meditative mood piece.
A cadet’s dead body is found in West Point in 1830. When examiners find the body’s heart missing and fear for the military academy’s image, authorities enlist detective Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) to solve the case. When the bodies start piling up, and Augustus finds the cadets unwilling to talk,...
A cadet’s dead body is found in West Point in 1830. When examiners find the body’s heart missing and fear for the military academy’s image, authorities enlist detective Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) to solve the case. When the bodies start piling up, and Augustus finds the cadets unwilling to talk,...
- 12/22/2022
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
A serial killer saga that’s set along the frozen banks of the Hudson River during the winter of 1830, Scott Cooper’s “The Pale Blue Eye” may be tapping into the cleverest aspect of the Louis Bayard novel from which it’s been adapted: If a young Edgar Allen Poe were involved in solving a series of murders, it would only be a matter of time before everyone started to suspect that he was behind them.
Harry Melling’s heroically weird performance as the death-obsessed poet has the potential to lull viewers into the same trap, even if it would seem that we should know better. Then again, most people don’t know anything about Poe’s brief stint at West Point, where his morbid nature and Southern lilt supposedly made him an irresistible target for some of his more abusive fellow cadets.
While it’s true that Poe is...
Harry Melling’s heroically weird performance as the death-obsessed poet has the potential to lull viewers into the same trap, even if it would seem that we should know better. Then again, most people don’t know anything about Poe’s brief stint at West Point, where his morbid nature and Southern lilt supposedly made him an irresistible target for some of his more abusive fellow cadets.
While it’s true that Poe is...
- 12/22/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Set in 1830, a mildly ridiculous plot sends a haunted Bale to investigate the gothic killing of a military cadet
As a director, Scott Cooper has achieved a reputation for handling the tough textures of the western; now he applies that expertise to this enjoyable if entirely preposterous historical mystery thriller, adapted by Cooper from the 2003 bestseller by Louis Bayard, an author renowned for his ingenious reimaginings of real-life historical figures and famous fictional characters.
The Pale Blue Eye takes place in 1830 and Christian Bale, in full haunted/bearded mode (the same that he had for Cooper’s 2017 western drama Hostiles), plays renowned detective Augustus Landor; he is in a semi-retired, semi-hermit state, a sad widower whose daughter has disappeared. But Landor is strangely taken with a grotesque case that is put to him. A cadet at the US military academy in West Point has been murdered; hanged and his heart cut out of his body.
As a director, Scott Cooper has achieved a reputation for handling the tough textures of the western; now he applies that expertise to this enjoyable if entirely preposterous historical mystery thriller, adapted by Cooper from the 2003 bestseller by Louis Bayard, an author renowned for his ingenious reimaginings of real-life historical figures and famous fictional characters.
The Pale Blue Eye takes place in 1830 and Christian Bale, in full haunted/bearded mode (the same that he had for Cooper’s 2017 western drama Hostiles), plays renowned detective Augustus Landor; he is in a semi-retired, semi-hermit state, a sad widower whose daughter has disappeared. But Landor is strangely taken with a grotesque case that is put to him. A cadet at the US military academy in West Point has been murdered; hanged and his heart cut out of his body.
- 12/22/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
With a filmography of muscular acting showcases, patient tempos, and emphasis on brooding atmosphere, it’s evident Scott Cooper has been influenced by the endearingly ramshackle character studies of 1970s American cinema. In an era where this particular kind of film seems to be the lowest priority for every studio, it’s also refreshing to find a director who can amass the resources to pull one off. As noble as those intentions may be, however, Cooper has continually struggled to develop a vision that, if not original, at least bears the formal prowess and screenwriting wit to elevate derivate veneers. After jumping from crime drama to western to the supernatural, The Pale Blue Eye finds him in gothic murder mystery territory for a conceptually inventive piece of Edgar Allan Poe historical fiction that succumbs to tendencies of a familiarly tedious variety.
In adapting Louis Bayard’s 2003 novel of the same name,...
In adapting Louis Bayard’s 2003 novel of the same name,...
- 12/22/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Wednesday Addams may see her title of “Netflix’s resident goth detective” challenged by the release of The Pale Blue Eye. Scott Cooper’s period thriller places a young Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling) at the centre of a fictionalised murder mystery in upstate New York. But, to Cooper’s credit, the film feels a lot less silly in practice than the one-sentence elevator pitch of Louis Bayard’s source novel. It’s a handsome adaptation, albeit with an unnecessary bit of literary celebrity dragged alongside it.
It’s 1830, and veteran detective Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) has been summoned to Westpoint Military Academy, where Poe happens to be stationed (the only detail true to biography). The dead body of a cadet, found hanged under suspicious circumstances, has been desecrated post-mortem – his heart carved from his chest and spirited away. We’re to be reminded, of course, of the “tell-tale heart...
It’s 1830, and veteran detective Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) has been summoned to Westpoint Military Academy, where Poe happens to be stationed (the only detail true to biography). The dead body of a cadet, found hanged under suspicious circumstances, has been desecrated post-mortem – his heart carved from his chest and spirited away. We’re to be reminded, of course, of the “tell-tale heart...
- 12/22/2022
- by Clarisse Loughrey
- The Independent - Film
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A dour slow burn of a movie that never catches fire — even when a crime scene is set ablaze — Netflix’s period procedural The Pale Blue Eye has the curiosity factor of being a murder mystery that doubles as an Edgar Allan Poe origin story. Based on the 2003 novel by Louis Bayard, this third collaboration between writer-director Scott Cooper and Christian Bale (following Out of the Furnace and Hostiles) is far stronger on gothic atmosphere than suspense. It’s capably acted and visually effective, with lots of mist-shrouded woodlands and chiaroscuro interiors, but the storytelling is stilted and uninvolving.
Bale stars as the fictional figure of Augustus Landor, a widowed former police detective living alone in a remote cottage in Hudson Valley, New York, in 1830, with a strong reputation for breaking difficult cases and cracking codes.
When a cadet from the still-fledgling U.
A dour slow burn of a movie that never catches fire — even when a crime scene is set ablaze — Netflix’s period procedural The Pale Blue Eye has the curiosity factor of being a murder mystery that doubles as an Edgar Allan Poe origin story. Based on the 2003 novel by Louis Bayard, this third collaboration between writer-director Scott Cooper and Christian Bale (following Out of the Furnace and Hostiles) is far stronger on gothic atmosphere than suspense. It’s capably acted and visually effective, with lots of mist-shrouded woodlands and chiaroscuro interiors, but the storytelling is stilted and uninvolving.
Bale stars as the fictional figure of Augustus Landor, a widowed former police detective living alone in a remote cottage in Hudson Valley, New York, in 1830, with a strong reputation for breaking difficult cases and cracking codes.
When a cadet from the still-fledgling U.
- 12/22/2022
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This week is not only the first week of winter, officially beginning on December 21st, but the week is also capped off by Christmas Day on Sunday, December 25th. As you might imagine, it’s not exactly going to be a big week for new movie releases, with James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water likely dominating any and all movie conversations these next several days.
And don’t forget that Tommy Wirkola’s Christmas genre movie Violent Night is also still playing in theaters through Christmas, the film thus far slaying its way to 55 million worldwide!
What about New genre movies for the week, you ask? Well, there are only four new ones remaining for the entire rest of the year, so let’s take a look at those in one fell swoop.
Here’s all the new horror arriving December 19 – December 31, 2022!
First up, Cinedigm, Bloody Disgusting, and...
And don’t forget that Tommy Wirkola’s Christmas genre movie Violent Night is also still playing in theaters through Christmas, the film thus far slaying its way to 55 million worldwide!
What about New genre movies for the week, you ask? Well, there are only four new ones remaining for the entire rest of the year, so let’s take a look at those in one fell swoop.
Here’s all the new horror arriving December 19 – December 31, 2022!
First up, Cinedigm, Bloody Disgusting, and...
- 12/19/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Take a look at new footage from "The Pale Blue Eye" horror mystery feature, written and directed by Scott Cooper, adapting the 2006 novel by Louis Bayard, starring Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Toby Jones, Harry Lawtey, Simon McBurney, Timothy Spall and Robert Duvall, streaming January 6, 2023 on Netflix:
"...in 1830, detective 'Augustus Landor' investigates a series of killings at the US Military Academy at 'West Point'...
"... assisted by 'Edgar Allan Poe', a young cadet at the academy..."
Click the images to enlarge...
"...in 1830, detective 'Augustus Landor' investigates a series of killings at the US Military Academy at 'West Point'...
"... assisted by 'Edgar Allan Poe', a young cadet at the academy..."
Click the images to enlarge...
- 12/18/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Click here to read the full article.
Christian Bale and director Scott Cooper, who have previously teamed up for 2013’s Out of the Furnace and 2017’s Hostiles, have come together for their third collaboration, Netflix’s The Pale Blue Eye.
Based off of a novel by Louis Bayard, the film stars Bale as an 1830s detective in West Point, New York, investigating a series of murders at the United States Military Academy with the help of a young Edgar Allan Poe, who was a cadet at the academy.
“Scott had first sent this to me about 10 years ago; he’s a very prolific writer and has an abundance of projects that we are talking about continually,” Bale told The Hollywood Reporter at the film’s Los Angeles premiere on Wednesday, joking, “He felt like he wanted me to get a bit more gray and bit more crow’s feet and...
Christian Bale and director Scott Cooper, who have previously teamed up for 2013’s Out of the Furnace and 2017’s Hostiles, have come together for their third collaboration, Netflix’s The Pale Blue Eye.
Based off of a novel by Louis Bayard, the film stars Bale as an 1830s detective in West Point, New York, investigating a series of murders at the United States Military Academy with the help of a young Edgar Allan Poe, who was a cadet at the academy.
“Scott had first sent this to me about 10 years ago; he’s a very prolific writer and has an abundance of projects that we are talking about continually,” Bale told The Hollywood Reporter at the film’s Los Angeles premiere on Wednesday, joking, “He felt like he wanted me to get a bit more gray and bit more crow’s feet and...
- 12/15/2022
- by Kirsten Chuba
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It wasn’t a surprise to see that Scott Cooper had recruited Christian Bale to star in his most recent project, Netflix’s upcoming “The Pale Blue Eye.” However, it was a nice surprise to learn that Howard Shore would be providing the music.
The film, which is a follow-up to “Antlers,” is set in West Point in 1830 and is based on Louis Bayard’s novel of the same name.
Continue reading ‘The Pale Blue Eye’ Exclusive Music: Listen To 2 Tracks From Howard Shore’s Powerful Score at The Playlist.
The film, which is a follow-up to “Antlers,” is set in West Point in 1830 and is based on Louis Bayard’s novel of the same name.
Continue reading ‘The Pale Blue Eye’ Exclusive Music: Listen To 2 Tracks From Howard Shore’s Powerful Score at The Playlist.
- 12/12/2022
- by Jamie Rogers
- The Playlist
Crazy Heart writer-director Scott Cooper joined Deadline’s Contenders: LA3C awards-season event to discuss The Pale Blue Eye, his adaptation of the Louis Bayard novel about a gruesome West Point murder committed while none other than Edgar Allan Poe was a cadet in the military academy.
Cooper teams with Christian Bale for the third time, with Bale playing a world-weary detective summoned when a cadet is found hanged from a tree on the grounds of the academy. It goes from suicide to something else when a telltale heart clue emerges: someone has removed the cadet’s ticker, after he was cut down. The detective meets a particularly sharp cadet named Poe (Harry Melling), and from there, it’s a whodunit with the creator of that genre at the center.
Related: Deadline’s The Contenders LA3C: Full Coverage
“Nobody is who they appear to be in this film, and...
Cooper teams with Christian Bale for the third time, with Bale playing a world-weary detective summoned when a cadet is found hanged from a tree on the grounds of the academy. It goes from suicide to something else when a telltale heart clue emerges: someone has removed the cadet’s ticker, after he was cut down. The detective meets a particularly sharp cadet named Poe (Harry Melling), and from there, it’s a whodunit with the creator of that genre at the center.
Related: Deadline’s The Contenders LA3C: Full Coverage
“Nobody is who they appear to be in this film, and...
- 12/10/2022
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Take a look at new footage from "The Pale Blue Eye" horror mystery feature, written and directed by Scott Cooper, adapting the 2006 novel by Louis Bayard, starring Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Toby Jones, Harry Lawtey, Simon McBurney, Timothy Spall and Robert Duvall, releasing in theaters December 23, 2022, followed by streaming January 6, 2023 on Netflix:
"...in 1830, detective 'Augustus Landor' investigates a series of killings at the US Military Academy at 'West Point', assisted by 'Edgar Allan Poe', a young cadet at the academy..."
Click the images to enlarge...
"...in 1830, detective 'Augustus Landor' investigates a series of killings at the US Military Academy at 'West Point', assisted by 'Edgar Allan Poe', a young cadet at the academy..."
Click the images to enlarge...
- 12/9/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Netflix has debuted the full trailer for Scott Cooper’s Netflix feature ‘The Pale Blue Eye,’ featuring Christian Bale.
West Point, 1830. In the early hours of a grey winter morning, a cadet is found dead. But after the body arrives at the morgue, tragedy becomes savagery when it’s discovered that the young man’s heart has been skilfully removed. Fearing irreparable damage to the fledgling military academy, its leaders turn to a local detective, Augustus Landor (Christian Bale), to solve the murder. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, Landor enlists the help of one of their own to pursue the case, an eccentric cadet with a disdain for the rigours of the military and a penchant for poetry — a young man named Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling).
Based on the novel by Louis Bayard, The Pale Blue Eye is directed by Scott Cooper and stars an acclaimed supporting cast,...
West Point, 1830. In the early hours of a grey winter morning, a cadet is found dead. But after the body arrives at the morgue, tragedy becomes savagery when it’s discovered that the young man’s heart has been skilfully removed. Fearing irreparable damage to the fledgling military academy, its leaders turn to a local detective, Augustus Landor (Christian Bale), to solve the murder. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, Landor enlists the help of one of their own to pursue the case, an eccentric cadet with a disdain for the rigours of the military and a penchant for poetry — a young man named Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling).
Based on the novel by Louis Bayard, The Pale Blue Eye is directed by Scott Cooper and stars an acclaimed supporting cast,...
- 12/7/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Christian Bale plays an 1830s detective tasked with solving a series of grisly, possibly cult-related murders in Netflix’s ice-cold thriller, “The Pale Blue Eye.” Watch the first trailer above.
Scott Cooper’s film, which the streamer acquired last year in a 55 million deal, takes place at West Point Academy, a military training school. When a cadet turns up dead, its leadership turns to Augustus Landor (Bale) for help – a local detective who, if rumors are true, “once elicited a confession with nothing more than a piercing look”.
The trailer opens on a wintry landscape, where Landor contemplates the crime at hand – a soldier has been hanged, with his heart expertly cut out from his chest.
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What initially seems like the act of a “madman” gives way to a larger conspiracy,...
Scott Cooper’s film, which the streamer acquired last year in a 55 million deal, takes place at West Point Academy, a military training school. When a cadet turns up dead, its leadership turns to Augustus Landor (Bale) for help – a local detective who, if rumors are true, “once elicited a confession with nothing more than a piercing look”.
The trailer opens on a wintry landscape, where Landor contemplates the crime at hand – a soldier has been hanged, with his heart expertly cut out from his chest.
Also Read:
Denise Richards and Pals Stab and Shoot Demons in ‘Angels Fallen: Warriors of Peace’ Action-Packed First Teaser (Exclusive Video)
What initially seems like the act of a “madman” gives way to a larger conspiracy,...
- 12/7/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
“The Pale Blue Eye” marks the latest collaboration between Christian Bale and Scott Cooper. The two have previously worked together on “Out of the Furnace,” which was met with massive critical praise for both talents, while their previous collaboration, “Hostiles,” wasn’t as well-received.
The two reunite in this adaptation of Louis Bayard‘s novel of the same name, as Bale plays Detective Augustus Landor, investigating a series of murders with Edgar Allan Poe, played by Harry Melling.
Continue reading ‘The Pale Blue Eye’ Trailer: Christian Bale’s Latest Collaboration With Scott Cooper Arrives This Christmas at The Playlist.
The two reunite in this adaptation of Louis Bayard‘s novel of the same name, as Bale plays Detective Augustus Landor, investigating a series of murders with Edgar Allan Poe, played by Harry Melling.
Continue reading ‘The Pale Blue Eye’ Trailer: Christian Bale’s Latest Collaboration With Scott Cooper Arrives This Christmas at The Playlist.
- 12/7/2022
- by Maxance Vincent
- The Playlist
A “gripping whodunit that’s also an Edgar Allan Poe origin story,” Netflix‘s The Pale Blue Eye first comes to select theaters on December 23, 2022, while the film will begin streaming on Netflix on January 6, 2023. The Pale Blue Eye was directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Antlers) and stars Christian Bale alongside Harry Melling as Edgar Allan Poe.
Christian Bale portrays retired detective Augustus Landor, tasked with investigating a series of murders. At the center of the murder-mystery is none other than Edgar Allan Poe.
Watch Netflix’s official trailer for The Pale Blue Eye below, brand new today.
Harry Melling, who recently appeared on “The Queen’s Gambit,” is perhaps best known for playing Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter film franchise.
Gillian Anderson (The Crown), Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody), Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist), Toby Jones (First Cow), Harry Lawtey (Industry), Simon McBurney (Carnival Row), Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner), Hadley Robinson...
Christian Bale portrays retired detective Augustus Landor, tasked with investigating a series of murders. At the center of the murder-mystery is none other than Edgar Allan Poe.
Watch Netflix’s official trailer for The Pale Blue Eye below, brand new today.
Harry Melling, who recently appeared on “The Queen’s Gambit,” is perhaps best known for playing Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter film franchise.
Gillian Anderson (The Crown), Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody), Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist), Toby Jones (First Cow), Harry Lawtey (Industry), Simon McBurney (Carnival Row), Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner), Hadley Robinson...
- 12/7/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
In the trailer for upcoming film “Pale Blue Eye,” Christian Bale is investigating a murder in 1830s upstate New York.
Netflix has released the first look at the American Gothic mystery film, in which Bale plays veteran detective Augustus Landor. Based on Louis Bayard’s 2006 novel of the same name, the film follows Landor as he is called to investigate a killing at the United States Military Academy in West Point. With a serial killer on the prowl, Augustus enlists Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling) to help him solve the case. Poe, the renowned writer and poet known for “The Raven,” “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “A Dream Within a Dream,” is introduced as young cadet at the military academy.
“Down, down, down came the hot thrashing flurry,” Melling’s Poe says in a teaser released on Oct. 27. “Darkest night, black with hell-charneled fury, leaving only that deathly pale blue eye.
Netflix has released the first look at the American Gothic mystery film, in which Bale plays veteran detective Augustus Landor. Based on Louis Bayard’s 2006 novel of the same name, the film follows Landor as he is called to investigate a killing at the United States Military Academy in West Point. With a serial killer on the prowl, Augustus enlists Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling) to help him solve the case. Poe, the renowned writer and poet known for “The Raven,” “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “A Dream Within a Dream,” is introduced as young cadet at the military academy.
“Down, down, down came the hot thrashing flurry,” Melling’s Poe says in a teaser released on Oct. 27. “Darkest night, black with hell-charneled fury, leaving only that deathly pale blue eye.
- 12/7/2022
- by Michaela Zee
- Variety Film + TV
Christian Bale is a fascinating actor, the type of performer that has played so many complex and storied characters, film fans can all name a completely different favorite role, and they'd all be correct. While plenty will forever associate him with the gruff voice of the Christopher Nolan "Batman" trilogy, others will picture him donning a frosted transparent raincoat whenever they hear "Hip to Be Square" by Huey Lewis and the News after his horrific turn in "American Psycho."
In his latest project, Bale is reuniting with director Scott Cooper in "The Pale Blue Eye" for Netflix. The duo first worked together in 2013 on the film "Out of the Furnace," and again a few years later with the Western film, "Hostiles." Now, the duo is tackling an adaptation of the 2006 gothic thriller of the same name by Louis Bayard, about a series of fictional murders in 1830 at West Point Academy,...
In his latest project, Bale is reuniting with director Scott Cooper in "The Pale Blue Eye" for Netflix. The duo first worked together in 2013 on the film "Out of the Furnace," and again a few years later with the Western film, "Hostiles." Now, the duo is tackling an adaptation of the 2006 gothic thriller of the same name by Louis Bayard, about a series of fictional murders in 1830 at West Point Academy,...
- 11/18/2022
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
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