Val Kilmer

Val Kilmer obituary: Notorious actor who took it all ‘way too seriously’

Val Kilmer's career represented a mixture of missed opportunities and misguided choices, with the occasional high-point

Sat Apr 12 2025 - 01:00

Val Kilmer: Avatar of American swagger who only occasionally got the roles he deserved

Symbolising a brash period in pop culture, the handsome Californian had an up-and-down professional journey

Wed Apr 02 2025 - 12:15

Val Kilmer, Top Gun and Batman star, dies aged 65

Actor received critical acclaim for portrayal of musician Jim Morrison in 1991 film The Doors

Wed Apr 02 2025 - 06:12

Top Gun: Maverick – Takes your breath away in all the right places

The sequel is in agitated conversation with its 36-year-old predecessor

Fri May 27 2022 - 05:00

Amazon Prime Video and Disney+: Six of the best new shows to watch in November

Including The Beatles: Get Back, The Wheel of Time, Dopesick and Curse of the Chippendales

Tue Nov 02 2021 - 06:00

Amazon Prime Video: Five of the best new shows and films to watch in August

Including Nine Perfect Strangers, Modern Love season 2 and Kevin Can Go F**k Himself

Tue Aug 03 2021 - 06:00

Richard Stanley: ‘I’m the guy for the doomed project’

The cult director on tackling the ‘unfilmable’ work of HP Lovecraft and ‘mad’ Nicolas Cage

Sat Feb 29 2020 - 05:00

‘If my name wasn’t Valentine, I might enjoy the day’

Is it a blessing or a curse to share a name with the patron saint of love? We asked some Vals

Wed Feb 14 2018 - 05:59

Fassbender’s charisma fails to mask The Snowman’s big problem

Tomas Alfredson’s slice of Scandi noir is the kind of thriller that now belongs on TV

Fri Oct 13 2017 - 05:00

Song to Song: Terrence Malick’s worst film yet

This incoherent muddle of falling leaves, cameos and tracking shots has nowhere to go

Tue Jul 25 2017 - 08:00

‘Top Gun’ sequel confirmed by Tom Cruise

Actor still feels need for speed as he verifies rumours about a follow-up to the 1986 hit

Wed May 24 2017 - 19:26

Reissue of the Week: True Romance - Still a firecracker of a film after all these years

Two decades after it flopped at the box-office, Tony Scott take on Quentin Tarantino’s trope-filled screenplay plays like a classic of anti-canonical canonical cinema

Thu Nov 19 2015 - 14:13

Coppola dynasty: three generations of Coppola in film

Grandpa Francis may have lit the spark, but director Gia Coppola takes most of the inspiration for her debut film from the writing of good friend James Franco, she tellsDonald Clarke

Fri Oct 17 2014 - 00:00