VICE 
THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER 
THE PALE BLUE EYE 
"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...
Christian
Bale
Bale, who broke out in the mainstream conversation with “American Psycho” more than two decades ago, is now one of the highest-paid actors in the world, known for acclaimed performances that have garnered a slew of awards recognition. This year, he joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Gorr the God Butcher, the villain in the Taika Waititi-directed “Thor: Love and Thunder.” Of course, this is no newcomer to the superhero world, as he’s known globally for playing Bruce Wayne/Batman in Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight” trilogy. In late 2022, he joined up with directors David O. Russell and Scott Cooper — both of whom he’s worked with before — starring, respectively, in the ’30s-era drama “Amsterdam” and the gothic horror “The Pale Blue Eye.” On both of those films, he pulled double duty as star and producer.
