Christian Bale as Augustus Landor in Netflix’s The Pale Blue Eye. Scott Garfield / Netflix January 6, 2023 Netflix’s The Pale Blue Eye uses a fictional whodunnit to explore the origins of Edgar Allan Poe Bran Nicol, University of Surrey The impressionistic tale of a young Edgar Allan Poe may not be based in fact, but it captures the essence of the young writer.
Psycho/IMDB June 14, 2020 Psycho turns 60 – Hitchcock’s famous fright film broke all the rules Ben McCann, University of Adelaide Sixty years after it premiered, Psycho remains Hitchcock’s most celebrated film. But it is really two films, glued together by the most iconic scene in cinema history.
Motortion Films via Shutterstock January 6, 2020 I’m a novelist – and this is why I choose middle-aged women as the heroes of my crime thrillers Emily Bernhard Jackson, University of Exeter Novelist Emily Bernhard Jackson has identified an important gap in contemporary crime fiction: middle-aged women detectives.
Netflix February 28, 2018 How Black Mirror combines a disturbing future with a familiar past Richard Hand, University of East Anglia Netflix hit, Black Mirror, follows in the footsteps of other forward-thinking sci-fi storytellers.