Over the course of his career, Christian Bale has played such diverse roles as masked superhero, murderous yuppie, Victorian stage magician (magicians, actually), emaciated machinist and post-apocalyptic soldier. His next one up is the blue-collar worker Russell Baze in Scott Cooper's new drama "Out of the Furnace," about an everyman who will do anything to try to save his brother, a troubled war veteran played by Casey Affleck.