Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. Christian Bale’s unhinged character Patrick Bateman from American Psycho is getting a new ...

American Psychois a controversial movie with a lot of hidden meaning. It tells the story of a business tycoon named Patrick Bateman (brilliantly played by Christian Bale) who is slowly succumbing to ...

Has Patrick Bateman been given a sympathetic rebrand, or did culture just sink down to meet him where he always was? It’s been 25 years since American Psycho first hit screens, which, for the purposes ...

Patrick Bateman, the titular ‘American Psycho’, was written as satire. He’s also the inspiration for a new perfume and bar. By Jameson Montgomery In 2000, the Canadian director Mary Harron made a ...

Early in American Psycho, Mary Harron’s blisteringly good adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 novel, Patrick Bateman walks us through a typical morning. The 27-year-old investment banker and ...