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Image via Marvel Studios Actor Corey Stoll used empathy to make sense of the inner workings driving Dr. Darren Cross, also known as Yellowjacket/MODOK, in Ant-Man. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Stoll unpacked how he worked with director Peyton Reed and actor/producer Paul Rudd to decipher Edgar Wright’s screenplay and decode the subconscious motives for Dr. Cross’s anti-social behavior. The trio concluded that an enormous father wound drives MODOK’s aggression. What Peyton, Paul and I tried to do — on…

Image: Tristan Fewings / Stringer (Getty Images)Joe Cornish, the Ant-Man writer who is also known for Attack the Block and The Kid Who Would be King, revealed in an interview with Playlist some new details behind Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man exit. Although Wright has stated before that he left for creative differences, Cornish said that the issues likely started much earlier.“When Edgar and I first met Marvel, they were in offices above a BMW showroom in Beverly Hills,” Cornish said. He described a business that was still…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeEdgar Wright, the acclaimed director of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, has directed a minute-long advertisement for McDonald’s.The filmmaker was hired by the popular fast food chain to make a short TV spot.However, many fans of Wright were left scratching their head over the advert, cut using Wright’s distinctive rhythmic editing style – because it didn’t actually show McDonald’s at…

If you’ve been perusing your Netflix library while compartmentalizing your imminent return to work or school and have happened across The Pale Blue Eye, a period mystery starring Christian Bale, you’re certainly not alone.  The film sees Bale’s character, Augustus Landor, team up with Edgar Allan Poe in the early 1800s to solve a murder involving a heart being expertly removed from the victim’s body. Like many, you may have come to the film for Christian Bale – but you may also have found yourself sticking around for…

| Jacob Edgar of The Ones and Batman Audio Adventures and Jordi Perez are launching a Rocketman and Rocketgirl oneshot from Dynamite Entertainment in March 2023, spinning out of the public domain-inspired Project Superpowers universe. "After seemingly foiling a daring bank heist, Rocketman and Rocketgirl find themselves in a deep web of mystery with a case like no other. They uncover a complex conspiracy, discovering that Nazi agents are hell-bent on stealing rocket technology for themselves. This tale set in 1940s New…

Image: Netflix | Scott GarfieldThe Pale Blue Eye is an adaption of a novel by Louis Bayard that imagines a chilling horror story set in West Point during the time that Edgar Allen Poe was in attendance. The early 1800s time period places the film well before Sherlock Holmes, offering a darker, more reserved kind of horror, creating a strange, slow-moving, threatening aura that I am, actually, all about.The Pale Blue Eye | Official Trailer | NetflixThe trailer shows Christian Bale as detective Augustus Landor, who is…

Netflix has released the first trailer for the mystery film The Pale Blue Eye. In the footage, Christian Bale plays an aging detective who teams with one of the world’s most famous poets to solve a series of murders. The year is 1830, and Augustus Landor (Bale), a seasoned detective, is summoned to West Point to investigate a disturbing matter. The body of a dead cadet is found, and the young boy’s heart has been carved from his chest. When another boy goes missing, Landor enlists the help of Edgar Allen Poe (Harry…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeOlivia Newman’s mystery film Where the Crawdads Sing has arrived on Netflix and immediately jumped to No 1 on the site’s most popular movies ranking.The film, which follows the story of a girl named Kya, features Daisy-Edgar Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, and David Strathairn.Set in the 1950s and 1960s in rural North Carolina, the narrative blends elements of murder…

Later this month, Top Shelf Productions will release Super Trash Clash. The new young adult graphic novel comes from Mexican cartoonist Edgar Camacho, with translation by Eva Ibarzabel. The book follows a young woman who reflects on her childhood after finding a copy of a truly awful video game she had when she was younger. Ahead of the graphic novel’s release, The Beat is pleased to present an exclusive preview of pages from the book. Here’s how Top Shelf describes Super Trash Clan: Nostalgia for the world’s worst…

Image via Netflix It may be the era of superheroes as far the world of feature film goes, but we’d be remiss to discount the popularity of murder mystery movies nowadays as well; it’s hard to say if Rian Johnson, who perhaps achieved this era’s peak of the subgenre with 2019’s Knives Out, is responsible for all the attempts that have come since then, but since those attempts include the likes of See How They Run, Amsterdam, and Where the Crawdads Sing, it’s something we wouldn’t be thanking him for any time…