Profiling the dark hand behind the Bush years
As played from beneath 60 added pounds of wobbling flesh by a transformed Christian Bale, Dick Cheney is a cartoon villain from his piggy eyes to his psychopath’s monotone
Cinema
Vice: Directed by Adam McKay, Nationwide, 15A,Rating:***
The Mule: Directed by Clint Eastwood, Nationwide, 15A,Rating:***
If you haven’t got enough to be mad about, perhaps Vice, director Adam McKay’s grimly comic portrait of former US vice-president Dick Cheney, will tip you screaming over the edge. Not so much a hagiography as a scumbagiography, it will spoil nobody’s enjoyment of the picture to reveal that McKay is not a fan of his corpulent, ...
