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Christian Bale

Born: 30 January 1974, Pembroke

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  • Batman Begins

    Batman Begins

    A superhero franchise in disrepute was revived in glorious techno-Gothic style by one of the most innovative minds in modern popular cinema.

  • The Dark Knight

    The Dark Knight

    Christopher Nolan’s stylish second stab at Batman had a secret weapon: the late Heath Ledger’s show-stopping performance as The Joker.

  • The Prestige

    The Prestige

    A pair of fin-de-siècle showman-magicians duel in their personal and professional lives in an appropriately tricksy thriller, directed with panache by Christopher Nolan.

  • The New World

    The New World

    Terrence Malick’s film, only his fourth in over three decades, is an impressionistic myth of origins about Jamestown explorer Captain Smith’s romance with the native Pocahontas.

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