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 | | 18. Prestige (Blu-ray) | | | Starring: Christian Bale Hugh Jackman Director: Christopher Nolan | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 5/30/2008 | User Rating: 5 |  | The Prestige - DVD By: Brian Holcomb - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 2/25/2007 4:54 PM | | It's Batman Vs. Wolverine in the latest puzzler from the mind bending director Christopher
Nolan (Memento). Christian Bale and Michael Caine from Nolan's Batman Begins join X-man Hugh Jackman for a turn of the century Victorian mystery about a pair of obsessed magicians committed to the destruction of one another. Since this is a Christopher Nolan film, the twisted tale is twisted into the most non-linear shape possible, and leads us unconvincingly from the mystery genre into outright and outrageous fantasy. read the full review | |
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 | | 21. Prestige | | | Starring: Christian Bale Hugh Jackman Director: Christopher Nolan | | Format: DVD Release Date: 12/26/2008 | | User Rating: 5 | | The Prestige - DVD By: Brian Holcomb - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 2/25/2007 4:54 PM | | It's Batman Vs. Wolverine in the latest puzzler from the mind bending director Christopher
Nolan (Memento). Christian Bale and Michael Caine from Nolan's Batman Begins join X-man Hugh Jackman for a turn of the century Victorian mystery about a pair of obsessed magicians committed to the destruction of one another. Since this is a Christopher Nolan film, the twisted tale is twisted into the most non-linear shape possible, and leads us unconvincingly from the mystery genre into outright and outrageous fantasy. read the full review | |
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 | | 26. 3:10 To Yuma (Fullscreen) | | | Starring: Christian Bale Russell Crowe Director: James Mangold | | Format: DVD Release Date: 9/9/2008 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | 3:10 to Yuma - DVD Review By: Chris Cabin - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 12/28/2007 6:59 PM | |
Based on a short story by Elmore Leonard, a writer known more for loan sharks and confidence men than ruthless bandits and old-soul lawmen, 3:10 to Yuma originally sold Glenn Ford as slick outlaw Ben Wade and Van Heflin as Dan Evans, the rancher burdened with delivering Wade to a prison train heading to Yuma. Directed in 1957 by Delmer Daves, the original was a perversely intimate piece of rawhide for a genre that already prided itself on its strange seclusion. Fit for our time, Evans is now played by master of reticence Christian Bale and Wade is now played by a rough-and-tumble Russell Crowe with just the right hint of sadism. read the full review | |
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 | | 27. 3:10 To Yuma (Blu-ray) | | | Starring: Christian Bale Russell Crowe Director: James Mangold | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 1/8/2008 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | 3:10 to Yuma - DVD Review By: Brian Holcomb - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 1/11/2008 11:24 PM | | The western has been buried and revived so many times in recent years that it's beginning to resemble one of George Romero's stale zombies, stumbling about with only a trace memory of it's former self. The trouble lies in the very idea of a "revival". As director James Mangold mentions himself on the DVD commentary, this inspires contemporary filmmakers to make westerns that are about other westerns and the genre itself rather than simply telling their own story. read the full review | |
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 | | 28. 3:10 To Yuma (Widescreen) | | | Starring: Russell Crowe Christian Bale Director: James Mangold | | Format: DVD Release Date: 9/9/2008 | | 3:10 to Yuma - DVD Review By: Brian Holcomb - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 1/11/2008 11:24 PM | | The western has been buried and revived so many times in recent years that it's beginning to resemble one of George Romero's stale zombies, stumbling about with only a trace memory of it's former self. The trouble lies in the very idea of a "revival". As director James Mangold mentions himself on the DVD commentary, this inspires contemporary filmmakers to make westerns that are about other westerns and the genre itself rather than simply telling their own story. read the full review | |
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 | | 29. MacHinist | | | Starring: Aitana Sanchez-Gijon Christian Bale Director: Brad Anderson | | Format: DVD Release Date: 1/24/2006 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | The Machinist - DVD Review By: Jesse Hassenger - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 5/8/2009 5:39 PM | |
Christian Bale lost 60 pounds for his role as an insomniac factory worker in The Machinist. In a profession where the transformation du jour has traditionally been weight gain, this an impressive physical stunt — equaled only when Reese Witherspoon gets bonier after each pregnancy. As unnecessary as it is for Bale to further sharpen our collective focus on gaunt bodies, his physical transformation is part of an arresting, convincing piece of acting. Brooding comes easily to Bale (he’s a natural choice for the Batman role), and a prized quality for the kind of Hollywood hunk that he has verged on becoming for the past decade or so. But his physical performance in The Machinist goes far beyond standard film-world pouting. read the full review | |
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 | | 31. Rescue Dawn (Blu-ray) | | | Starring: Christian Bale Steve Zahn Director: Werner Herzog | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 11/20/2007 | | Rescue Dawn - DVD Review By: Franck Tabouring - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 11/11/2007 10:17 PM | | This time Herzog takes a break from documentary filmmaking and chooses a more dramatic approach to tell Dengler's story of survival. The result, of course, is fantastic. The film is not about war or politics, but about Dieter and Dieter alone. Herzog spends two hours depicting the man's dreams, his tragic accident and his quest for survival in the jungle, but every minute of it is utterly captivating. read the full review | |
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 | | 32. Rescue Dawn | | | Starring: Christian Bale Steve Zahn Director: Werner Herzog | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/19/2009 | | Rescue Dawn - DVD Review By: Franck Tabouring - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 11/11/2007 10:17 PM | | This time Herzog takes a break from documentary filmmaking and chooses a more dramatic approach to tell Dengler's story of survival. The result, of course, is fantastic. The film is not about war or politics, but about Dieter and Dieter alone. Herzog spends two hours depicting the man's dreams, his tragic accident and his quest for survival in the jungle, but every minute of it is utterly captivating. read the full review | |
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 | | 37. I'm Not There | | | Starring: Christian Bale Cate Blanchett Director: Todd Haynes | | Format: DVD Release Date: 1/27/2009 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | I'm Not There (Two Disc Collector's Edition) - DVD Review By: Ed Perkis - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 5/15/2008 2:32 PM | | The musical biopic has been all the rage in recent years, so much so that there has already been a fairly decent parody of the genre, Walk Hard. Writer/director Todd Haynes decided that iconic singer/songwriter Bob Dylan would be less well served by a straightforward linear retelling of his life story. Haynes, instead, puts together a film about Dylan in the style of a Dylan song; poetic, time shifting, ever changing, stream of consciousness... read the full review | |
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