The Pale Blue Eye
FRIDAY, JAN. 6
ORIGINAL
FILM 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 this moody 19th century gothic mystery, which takes a dark turn when Poe’s classmates are being killed and, gruesomely, stripped of their tickers. (Yep, the heart is a tell-tale clue.) In this film based on Louis Bayard’s 2006 novel, the clever Poe is tapped to help catch the killer by a worldweary retired detective, Augustus Landor (Christian Bale, above left, with Melling). Landor has been
