American Psycho

“I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.”  Slick Wall Street hustler Patrick Bateman loves classy furniture, expensive designer clothes and the hits of Huey Lewis and the News.  Unfortunately, he also loves vicious murder, psychotic mayhem … and the hits of Huey Lewis and the News. Christian Bale literally kills it as the well-dressed, gym-pumped maniac in this brutally shocking and bloody hilarious satire of ‘80s go-go-greed run amok, based on the controversial novel by Bret Easton Ellis and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol). Yes, it’s Hip to be Square, but it’s also downright dangerous … unless you have the right business card, of course.  Also starring Justin Theroux, Reese Witherspoon, Jared Leto, Willem Dafoe and Chloe Sevigny. (Dir. by Mary Harron, 2000, USA, 101mins., Rated R)