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Val Kilmer

November 2022

  • Warwick Davis reprises his role as Willow Ufgood In Willow.

    ‘David Bowie had seven pairs of socks down his tights’: Warwick Davis on reboots, relationships and rock stars

    George Lucas wrote Willow for Warwick Davis after seeing him play an Ewok in Star Wars. As the actor returns as the baby-saving sorcerer, he talks about Val Kilmer pep talks, the Harry Potter shoot – and channelling a Ricky Gervais sitcom

May 2022

  • This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Tom Cruise as Capt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in "Top Gun: Maverick." (Paramount Pictures via AP)

    Top Gun: Maverick review – Tom Cruise is still speedy, less needy in a rock’n’roll sequel

    Cruise presides over some surprising differences from his first outing as the navy pilot hotshot in a film that’s missing the homoerotic tensions of the 80s original

August 2021

  • Heavy is the head that wears the cowl … Val Kilmer in costume for Batman Forever (1995).

    Week in geek
    Curse of the Batsuit: why Val Kilmer found it hard to measure up

    Kilmer has told of the alienation he felt on the set of Batman Forever as Michael Keaton discusses his imminent return to the role in The Flash

July 2021

  • A still from Val

    Val review – unusual doc offers fractured portrait of actor

  • Call my agent … Val Kilmer as a crime boss in The Birthday Cake.

    The Birthday Cake review – did Val Kilmer get an offer he couldn’t refuse?

February 2021

  • The Island of Dr Moreau - 1996<br>Editorial use only. No book cover usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock (1638066a) The Island Of Dr Moreau, Marlon Brando The Island of Dr Moreau - 1996

    Hear me out
    Hear me out: why The Island of Dr Moreau isn't a bad movie

    Continuing our series of writers recommending maligned films is a defense of the troubled 1996 adaptation of the HG Wells cautionary tale

May 2020

  • The Batman starring Robert Pattinson

    Week in geek
    Why Robert Pattinson could be the most exciting Batman in years

    The new Caped Crusader says he has found a ‘gap’ to make Batman his own – in contrast to the likes of Val Kilmer’s cheeseball effort

May 2019

  • Michael Keaton in Batman.

    'I'm sucking up your IQ!': what 90s Batman tells us about Hollywood

    The dialogue is corny, the heroes moody, the fights risible, but the Batman films of Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher paved the way for today’s blockbusters

May 2017

  • Kelly McGillis and Tom Cruise in the original Top Gun

    Top Gun 2 is 'definitely happening', says Tom Cruise

  • W Magazine Celebrates: The 'Best Performances' Portfolio And The Golden Globes, Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles, USA - 05 Jan 2017<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Billy Farrell/BFA/REX/Shutterstock (7734943hc) Val Kilmer W Magazine Celebrates: The 'Best Performances' Portfolio And The Golden Globes, Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles, USA - 05 Jan 2017

    Val Kilmer: 'Lord, I'm never going to read this tripe!'

March 2017

  • Val Kilmer

    Pass notes
    Val Kilmer faces the heat after weird Cate Blanchett tweets

    The Top Gun star has revealed a curious appreciation for his fellow actor. Especially her ‘dazzling’ shovel-wielding skills

January 2017

  • Composite of Halle Berry, Val Kilmer and Debra Winger

    Don't call it a comeback: the actors set to return to the A-list in 2017

    The next 12 months could see stars including Debra Winger, Michelle Pfeiffer and Val Kilmer return to the public eye

November 2016

  • Val Kilmer<br>FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2014 file photo, Val Kilmer poses for a portrait in Nashville, Tenn. Kilmer says Michael Douglas was “misinformed” when he suggested Kilmer has cancer. In a Facebook post Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016, Kilmer said he has “no cancer whatsoever.” At a London event on Sunday, Douglas had said Kilmer was “dealing with” throat cancer, which Douglas was diagnosed with in 2010. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

    Val Kilmer: Michael Douglas apologised after throat cancer scare

  • Val Kilmer

    Val Kilmer denies he has cancer after Michael Douglas claims

July 2016

  • Mushroom cloud … Jai Courtney (far right) in Suicide Squad.

    Film blog
    Extreme weight loss and tooth extraction: when method acting goes too far

    Which star didn’t bathe for four months? Who became a cabbie? Our guide to actors who take their art to new levels

May 2016

  • Tom Cruise as Maverick in Top Gun.

    Bombastic, monochrome and simplistic – and yet still I love Top Gun

    Noo Saro-Wiwa
    With its focus on Tom Cruise’s unreconstructed, sweat-sodden machismo, Tony Scott’s 1986 film presses all my feminist buttons

March 2016

  • The Dark Knight Rises - 2012<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage Mandatory Credit: Photo by Warner Br/Everett/REX/Shutterstock (1803978d) THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, Christian Bale as Batman The Dark Knight Rises - 2012

    Why Christian Bale will always be the best Batman

    The Welsh-born actor may reckon he ‘didn’t quite nail’ the caped crusader, but he still rates higher than Batnippled George Clooney and Val ‘are you trying to get under my cape, doctor?’ Kilmer

November 2015

  • VARIOUS<br>Val Kilmer re-imagined as a charachter from Top Gun 2 No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only Mandatory Credit: Photo by SNAP/REX Shutterstock (390901fx) FILM STILLS OF 'TOP GUN' WITH 1986, TOM CRUISE, TONY SCOTT IN 1986 VARIOUS

    Lost in showbiz
    Marina Hyde's Lost in showbiz: high fives all round as Val Kilmer whoops about his new Top Gun mission

    Iceman cometh again, it seems, with another preposterous cockpit outing. Plus: Daniel Radcliffe’s hellraising burden and the Kardashian Khristmas Kard revisited

March 2015

  • Octavia Spencer

    Film blog
    Holy help: what Octavia Spencer can learn from other movie Gods

    The Oscar-winning actor has been chosen to play a note-writing God in a new Christian thriller. But who should she be taking notes from?

January 2015

  • Val Kilmer

    Val Kilmer undergoing tests for possible tumour, says representative

    Star of Top Gun and Heat, 55, is at Los Angeles hospital as representative says doctors ‘encouraged by his progress’
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