We all love to lose ourselves in a good book but can we be more influenced by literature than we previously thought? A new study from Ohio State University suggests that readers who identify with fictional characters are prone to subconsciously adopt their behaviour, so a reader would find themselves feeling the emotions, thoughts, beliefs and internal responses of one of the characters – something the researchers are calling "experience-taking".
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Here's fun for all the family: American Psycho, the musical
Tuesday 24 April 2012
Theatre company is to stage Bret Easton Ellis's blood-soaked satire about a serial killer
Shame, Steve McQueen, 99 mins (18)
Margin Call, J C Chandor, 105 mins (15)
Sunday 15 January 2012
My name is Brandon, and I'm addicted to sex. But enough about me...
DVD: The Fighter, For retail & rental (Momentum)
Sunday 19 June 2011
Christian Bale won an Oscar for his motormouthed performance (and extreme weight loss) as Dicky Eklund, a crack-addicted boxing coach who both helps and hinders his half-brother, Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg).
Trailer: The Fighter
Wednesday 26 January 2011
Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale star in a look at the early years of boxer Micky Ward.
Black Dynamite (15)
Friday 13 August 2010
Scott Sanders's inspired spoof of 1970s blaxploitation films benefits from its meticulous attention to period detail and from the mock seriousness with which it tells its increasingly absurd story.
Terminator set for salvation as bidders line up for rights
Tuesday 03 November 2009
The future of the Terminator franchise will be decided by the end of January as bidders line up to buy the rights from Halcyon, the producer that sought bankruptcy protection in September.
DVD: Public Enemies, For retail & rental, (Universal)
Sunday 01 November 2009
Johnny Depp and Christian Bale star in Michael Mann's gangster biopic as John Dillinger, the infamous bank-robber, and Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent assigned to bring him to justice.
Public Enemies, Michael Mann, 140 mins, (15)
Sunday 05 July 2009
Johnny Depp underacts and Christian Bale lacks charisma in the much-hyped 1930s gangster biopic
Bale: film crew betrayed 'trust'
Friday 01 May 2009
Ever since Christian Bale turned the air blue on the set of Terminator Salvation, directing a expletive-ridden rant at the film's director of photography, the world has known the actor is unafraid of speaking his mind.
Carey Mulligan - Straight to the top of the class
Friday 13 February 2009
At just 23, UK star Carey Mulligan is working with Johnny Depp and Michael Mann and was the toast of the Berlin Film Festival. Gaynor Flynn meets her
DVD: The Dark Knight, Retail & Rental, (Warner)
Sunday 07 December 2008
Christopher Nolan tops his own 'Batman Begins' with a film that's less inspired by superhero comics than by crime novels, as it traces the trail of a city's corruption from its backalleys to its corridors of power.
DVD: The Dark Knight (12)
Friday 05 December 2008
Christian Bale returns as our hero, intent on cleaning up the mean streets of Gotham in the biggest-grossing film of the year.
'American Psycho' – the musical
Saturday 27 September 2008
The shockingly gory novel American Psycho is about 1980s decadence. Surprisingly it's about to take its place alongside 'The Lion King' on Broadway.
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