The role Christian Bale simply refused to reprise in 2002

The role Christian Bale simply refused to reprise in 2002

American Psycho might have been made more than 25 years ago, but in some ways, it is exactly the kind of movie you can imagine getting made today, and feeling all the more relevant because of it. We are living in an age of rampant ego, obsessive wellness culture, aspirational behaviour and of performative, ostentatious displays of wealth. Greed is good again, with countless men online preening and posturing on social media almost in exactly the …