10 Michael Keaton Movies You've Never Even Heard Of
They became White Noise.
No-one is more delighted than me that Michael Keaton, one of my all-time favourite actors, is back in the Spotlight (get it?) where he belongs. For a while I wondered what the hell was going on with my favourite Batman. Title after title, from Robocop to Need For Speed, led me to think this uniquely mercurial actor had thrown in the towel, happy to coast his way to retirement on a sea of paycheques. Then something magical happened. Birdman sent Keaton's stock soaring, cleverly playing on his comic book legacy, and all of a sudden producers were clambering over themselves to squeeze that carton of Beetlejuice. I could pick up director Alejandro González Iñárritu and kiss him. Lined up to appear in some big upcoming releases, the future of Keaton is thankfully assured. Looking back across his decade-spanning career to date uncovers a wealth of forgotten - in some cases deservedly so - entries ranging broadly in tone and subject matter from both the salad days and wilderness years of his output. There are films here that will genuinely make you go 'Whaa?', trust me. I didn't know about some of them and I'm a superfan...