Welcome to “Playback,” a Variety podcast bringing you exclusive conversations with the talents behind many of today’s hottest films. Oscar-winning actor Christian Bale has been hard at work the last ...

When Hostiles hit theaters in 2017, it was largely greeted with a collective shrug despite starring Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike and a young Timothée Chalamet. However, the film's strong showing on ...

In “Hostiles,” a solemnly bloody tale of white redemption in the Old West from writer-director and Abingdon native Scott Cooper, Christian Bale does all his truest, best acting in between his actual ...

If "The Walking Dead" hadn't already been taken by the zombie-apocalypse comic book series and TV show, it would be the perfect title for this most violent and brutal of Westerns. For even though the ...

Bale also has previous with Cooper, having starred in his blue collar drama Out of the Furnace, where (as in Yuma) the actor played a fundamentally decent man being ground down by a pitiless fate. In ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook With a lack of marketing, a limited release in the United States, and bigger, more successful ...