The Pale Blue Eye is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Louis Bayard starring Christian Bale as Augustus Landor and Harry Melling as none other than Edgar Allan Poe himself. The Pale ...

Leah is a freelance writer based in the UK. It’s finally that time of year when we all like to sit down and enjoy a classic, crime caper, and thankfully Netflix has delivered. Whether it be 2017’s ...

Christian Bale as Augustus Landor and Harry Melling as Edgar Allen Poe in "The Pale Blue Eye." (Cr. Scott Garfield/Netflix) Most people with even a sliver of English literature education recognize ...

Scott Cooper and Christian Bale want to push their audience into challenging spaces. “The great danger is doing safe work,” says Cooper, the writer-director-producer of the elegant whodunit “The Pale ...

Jennifer Bisset was a senior editor for CNET. She covered film and TV news and reviews. The movie that inspired her to want a career in film is Lost in Translation. She won Best New Journalist in 2019 ...

Scott Cooper's lavish but lacking whodunnit finds Christian Bale teaming up with Poe several years before he invented the detective story. Harry Melling’s heroically weird performance as the ...

Robert Duvall, Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, and Harry Melling also star in the Netflix historical thriller. The Academy Award winner stars as Augustus Landor, a former detective forced out of ...

What “The Pale Blue Eye,” a gothic mystery-thriller adapted by director Scott Cooper from Louis Bayard’s 2006 novel, may lack in fully propulsive storytelling and consistent narrative focus is more ...

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 ...

Harry Melling plays Poe like a Benoit Blanc in training, but the film's mystery never catches fire. His speech, however, is designed to reassure. Poe, orphaned at a young age, grew up in a troubled ...