Christian Bale

The Pale Blue Eye review – starry gothic mystery loses its way

Despite the best efforts of Christian Bale, Gillian Anderson and co, this wintry crime yarn featuring a young Edgar Allan Poe descends into farce

Wendy Ide

01, Jan, 2023 @11:00 AM

The Pale Blue Eye review – baffled, beardy Christian Bale in gruesome murder yarn

Set in 1830, a mildly ridiculous plot sends a haunted Bale to investigate the gothic killing of a military cadet

Peter Bradshaw

22, Dec, 2022 @5:00 PM

Amsterdam review – don’t try to keep up

David O Russell brings plenty of pizzazz to this 1930s mystery, but the ambitious jigsaw puzzle of a plot is almost impossible to follow

Wendy Ide

08, Oct, 2022 @2:00 PM

What links David O Russell’s crime romp Amsterdam to Gloria Steinem and Bob Dylan?

Ahead of the shouty director’s latest film, we venture down the rabbit hole with Christian Bale, Julianne Moore and Spike Lee

Larry Ryan

08, Oct, 2022 @12:00 PM

Does it really matter if Marvel’s stars act in a state of utter bewilderment?

While developments in CGI mean cast members no longer have to walk around blue-screen studios talking to tennis balls on sticks, is the acting experience as true as it should be?

Ben Child

06, Oct, 2022 @2:53 PM

Amsterdam review – turn of the screwball in David O Russell’s starry muddle

Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington bring laughs to a exhaustingly wacky riff on a real-life fascist conspiracy in 1930s New York

Peter Bradshaw

28, Sep, 2022 @3:39 PM

Thor: Love and Thunder – the ‘super-gay’ tone, female Thor and Russell Crowe – discuss with spoilers

Are you happy about Chris Hemsworth’s god of Thunder taking a back seat to Natalie Portman’s Mighty Thor? And where in Marvel’s universe did Zeus’s godawful accent come from?

Ben Child

11, Jul, 2022 @10:50 AM

Thor: Love and Thunder review – sentimental multimillion-dollar romp

Chris Hemsworth’s Thor suffers an existential crisis in director Taika Waititi’s self-satisfied follow-up to Thor-Ragnarok

Wendy Ide

09, Jul, 2022 @2:00 PM

Thor: Love and Thunder review – Taika Waititi hammers home franchise fun

Followup to Thor: Ragnarok repeats some of that masterwork’s tongue-in-cheek approach as Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster takes up tool-throwing duties

Peter Bradshaw

05, Jul, 2022 @1:00 PM

Super bad: who is the greatest ever Marvel supervillain?

Director Taika Waititi reckons it’s Christian Bale as Gorr the God Butcher in the forthcoming Thor: Love and Thunder. But what about Thanos? Or Loki? And who else is in the running?

Ben Child

06, May, 2022 @10:27 AM

Kapow! Our writers pick their favorite Batman movie

To celebrate the release of The Batman, Guardian writers have written about their all-time favorite Caped Crusader films from Adam West to Ben Affleck

Peter Bradshaw, Andrew Pulver, Radheyan Simonpillai, Janelle Zara, Lisa Wong Macabasco, Charles Bramesco, Simon Abrams, Luke Holland, Benjamin Lee, Toby Moses, Nicholas Barber and Ben Child

04, Mar, 2022 @7:22 AM

Lights! Camera! Infraction! Mad Max shows why Hollywood indulges bad behaviour

Charlize Theron felt so threatened by Mad Max co-star Tom Hardy that she asked for a female producer as protection. Yet the industry still relies on film sets being lawless bubbles where you question macho posturing at your peril

Ryan Gilbey

24, Feb, 2022 @6:33 PM