Val Kilmer and the message of his latest ... Kilmer sat beside a painting of Batman that he had created himself. With a smile, he declared he was "ready" before donning the Batman mask for what ...

The key to Val Kilmer’s appeal may lie in the performance he gave in a film many think of as a throwaway, Joel Schumacher’s shiny, intentionally kitschy, and absurdly entertaining Batman ...

Beloved actor Val Kimer died from pneumonia ... Following his split with Cher, Kilmer dated actress Ellen Barkin, who the actor said has “the best smile in all five boroughs." ...

Kilmer brought a human touch to Batman in Batman Forever. Unlike other portrayals, Kilmer’s Batman isn’t just a brooding hero. He shows vulnerability and emotion. The film explores Bruce Wayne ...

"For me, Val Kilmer was the best Batman," Schumacher said in a 2011 interview ... into sentimentality or solemnity — he shows us his smile just two times across 170 minutes, and each time ...

And so, in a slightly shaggier way, was his rival and compatriot in “Top Gun,” Val Kilmer ... s takes on the role. It was Kilmer who first captured that Batman himself might have bats in ...

Val Kilmer, the Hollywood film star who starred in “Top Gun” and “Batman Forever,” died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 65. Kilmer succumbed to pneumonia, his daughter Mercedes told the New ...

I saw Val Kilmer ... He was Batman — the most charismatic and outgoing one who leaned into his playboy persona and crammed his essential strangeness down as far as it would go. Kilmer signed ...

During a 1996 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Batman Forever director Joel Schumacher discussed his issues with Kilmer. “I had heard horror stories about Val and was warned not to hire him ...

Kilmer, who died of pneumonia at 65 on Tuesday, April 1, starred as Bruce Wayne in 1995's 'Batman Forever' Warner Bros. Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Val Kilmer, who died of pneumonia ...