![]() In what could amount to finishing the most unlikely of mythic trilogies, Channing Tatum returns to the strip club for… One. Previous Shyamalan collaborators Nikki Amuka-Bird ( Old) and Rupert Grint ( Servant) round out the cast, alongside Dave Bautista, whom Shyamalan cast after being impressed with his “powerful still” performance in Blade Runner 2049. Pennyworth’s Ben Aldridge and Mindhunter’s Jonathan Groff star as a couple on a vacation in the woods with their adopted daughter, visited by a mysterious quartet of strangers warning of an oncoming apocalypse. Night Shyamalan, returns with this psychological horror, adapted from Paul Tremblay’s celebrated 2018 novel, The Cabin at the End of the World. It also reunites him with frequent collaborator Christian Bale, who plays a typical Poe-ian detective that comes to upstate New York to investigate homicide and finds himself crossing horns with a melancholic Southern officer named Edgar ( The Queen’s Gambit’s Harry Melling). The film is a passion project for writer-director Scott Cooper ( Hostiles, Antlers) who works from Louis Bayard’s novel. During those tumultuous days, according to the new movie, Poe also became enmeshed in a real-life murder investigation. A curious hybrid of horror, detective fiction, and historical fantasy (all genres that author Edgar Allan Poe helped cultivate or pioneer), The Pale Blue Eye is set in 1829 during Poe’s brief and failed stint as a West Point cadet. While this is technically a 2022 movie because it played on a handful of movie house screens over Christmas, The Pale Blue Eye will find its true audience this week when it premieres on Netflix. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alas… the technological marvel may prove to be a little too adept at anticipating the niece’s needs, including when that may no longer include Aunt Gemma herself! The Pale Blue Eye That’s at least the sales pitch of Gemma (Alison Williams), a high-end toymaker who designed M3GAN and then uses her recently orphaned niece as a guinea pig to beta-test the doll. Where Chucky of Child’s Play fame walked, M3GAN will run, skip, and dance as a technological doll of the future designed for children who want a toy as intuitive as Alexa (and for parents who just don’t want to do any real parenting). ![]()
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