Val Kilmer

‘David Bowie had seven pairs of socks down his tights’: Warwick Davis on reboots, relationships and rock stars

George Lucas wrote Willow for Warwick Davis after seeing him play an Ewok in Star Wars. As the actor returns as the baby-saving sorcerer, he talks about Val Kilmer pep talks, the Harry Potter shoot – and channelling a Ricky Gervais sitcom

Stuart Heritage

25, Nov, 2022 @1:00 PM

Top Gun: Maverick review – Tom Cruise is still speedy, less needy in a rock’n’roll sequel

Cruise presides over some surprising differences from his first outing as the navy pilot hotshot in a film that’s missing the homoerotic tensions of the 80s original

Peter Bradshaw

12, May, 2022 @1:17 PM

Curse of the Batsuit: why Val Kilmer found it hard to measure up

Kilmer has told of the alienation he felt on the set of Batman Forever as Michael Keaton discusses his imminent return to the role in The Flash

Ben Child

13, Aug, 2021 @9:55 AM

Val review – unusual doc offers fractured portrait of actor

Val Kilmer’s life and career is illustrated via the actor’s own recordings in an often curious yet incomplete mosaic of a biopic

Benjamin Lee

23, Jul, 2021 @6:36 AM

The Birthday Cake review – did Val Kilmer get an offer he couldn’t refuse?

The plot’s baffling, but not as baffling as why Kilmer, Ewan McGregor, and Paul Sorvino signed up for the director’s debut feature

Leslie Felperin

14, Jul, 2021 @9:00 AM

Hear me out: why The Island of Dr Moreau isn't a bad movie

Continuing our series of writers recommending maligned films is a defense of the troubled 1996 adaptation of the HG Wells cautionary tale

Zach Vasquez

08, Feb, 2021 @7:11 AM

Why Robert Pattinson could be the most exciting Batman in years

The new Caped Crusader says he has found a ‘gap’ to make Batman his own – in contrast to the likes of Val Kilmer’s cheeseball effort

Ben Child

15, May, 2020 @4:38 PM

'I'm sucking up your IQ!': what 90s Batman tells us about Hollywood

The dialogue is corny, the heroes moody, the fights risible, but the Batman films of Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher paved the way for today’s blockbusters

Alex Hess

14, May, 2019 @11:10 AM

Top Gun 2 is 'definitely happening', says Tom Cruise

Actor confirms sequel to 1986 classic with filming to begin ‘probably in the next year’

Steph Harmon

24, May, 2017 @12:17 AM

Val Kilmer: 'Lord, I'm never going to read this tripe!'

After topping the A-list in the 90s, the actor retreated – but he’s back with an unlikely interest in art and a Twitter account filled with star-studded anecdotes

Alex Suskind

19, May, 2017 @8:00 AM

Val Kilmer faces the heat after weird Cate Blanchett tweets

The Top Gun star has revealed a curious appreciation for his fellow actor. Especially her ‘dazzling’ shovel-wielding skills

28, Mar, 2017 @12:41 PM

Don't call it a comeback: the actors set to return to the A-list in 2017

The next 12 months could see stars including Debra Winger, Michelle Pfeiffer and Val Kilmer return to the public eye