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Mads Mikkelsen has probably been asked this question one too many times: how does he do it? Not the acting, but the navigation. He's built a home in almost every major IP that's graced our screens, from James Bond to Marvel, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, and now, Martin Scorsese's What Happens at Night. A lot of actors can get swallowed alive by that kind of machinery, but Mikkelsen's screen presence has remained, somehow, untouched."I think I've been lucky," the Danish actor puts it simply, pointing to the choices themselves. Doctor Strange was a standout entry in the Marvel universe with Benedict Cumberbatch leading the charge, and Casino Royale was a prestige reinvention of a franchise that desperately needed one, introducing Daniel Craig as James Bond for the first time. Both were built to...

Spoilers for those have yet to see the film.There's something eerie about the mere thought of a 30,000-square-foot set built to feel like nowhere — winding halls, pale yellow wallpaper, secret doors, and fluorescent lighting telling you to abandon all hope. This sound stage, all of it tucked into an unassuming office park in Vancouver, contains something like the end of the world. Or the beginning of one, depending on who you ask.For director Kane Parsons, also known on the internet as Kane Pixels, this was a digital vision brought to life. Literally. One early evening in Los Angeles, the 21-year-old filmmaker (he's officially A24's youngest director) talks, with the mild exhaustion of someone who has explained his ceiling tiles one too many times this press cycle, about the night they alm...