You know you're going to get a different kind of superhero when you cast Robert Downey Jr. in the lead role. And Iron Man is different, in welcome ways. Cleverly updated from Marvel Comics' longstanding series, Iron Man puts billionaire industrialist Tony Stark (that's Downey) in the path of some Middle Eastern terrorists; in a brilliantly paced section, Stark invents an ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff BridgesDirected By: Jon Favreau
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Jeff Bridges, Terrence Howard, Shaun Toub, Gwyneth Paltrow, Robert Downey JrDirected By: Jon Favreau
While director Norman Jewison's Moonstruck is a romantic cornerstone, this 1994 film is often overlooked. It's a sweet valentine about a young woman, aptly named Faith (Marisa Tomei, never cuter), who chases an unknown man to Europe because the name "Damon Bradley" was once spelled on a Ouija board as her true love. With her sister-in-law (Bonnie Hunt, whose own marriage seems to be falling ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr., Bonnie Hunt, Joaquim de Almeida, Fisher StevensDirected By: Norman Jewison
How well you respond to Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly depends on how much you know about the life and work of celebrated science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. While it qualifies as a faithful adaptation of Dick's semiautobiographical 1977 novel about the perils of drug abuse, Big Brother-like surveillance and rampant paranoia in a very near future ("seven years from now"), this is ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Rory Cochrane, Robert Downey Jr., Mitch Baker, Keanu Reeves, Sean Allen (II)Directed By: Richard Linklater
With smart scribe Shane Black both penning the script and behind the camera, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was never going to be ordinary. Yet it's far better than you could have hoped for, marrying in comedy, action, a bit of a detective work and a constant, knowing wink to the audience. Cruelly underperforming at the box office, the film finds Robert Downey Jr as a small time thief, who quite ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Robert Downey Jr, Michelle Monaghan, Val Kilmer, Corbin Bernsen, Deanna DozierDirected By: Shane Black
Considering Good Night and Good Luck is only the second time he's stepped behind the camera, George Clooney has already marked his card as a director of real talent to watch. He also acts in this particular film, but generously leaves centre stage to the superb David Strathairn.Set in the 1950s and based on true events, Strathairn plays news reporter Edward R. Murrow, who finds himself ...
Manufacturer: Lions Gate Home Ent. UK LtdStarring: David Strathairn, Jeff Daniels, Tate Donovan, Tom McCarthy, Robert Downey Jr.Directed By: George Clooney
It's not really a knock to say that nothing in Tropic Thunder is funnier than its first five minutes, so sly that--especially for people watching in theaters--you don't realise right away they are the opening minutes of the movie. This outrageous comedy begins with a series of fake previews, each introducing one of the main characters in the film-proper (not that there's anything proper ...
Manufacturer: ParamountStarring: Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Steve Coogan, Jay BaruchelDirected By: Ben Stiller
An ultimately futile attempt to make lightning strike twice, this so-called spin-off from 1993's blockbuster The Fugitive avoids the label of "sequel" by forging ahead without the first film's star, Harrison Ford. The idea is to showcase the return of Tommy Lee Jones in his Oscar-winning role as tenacious U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard, this time testing his mettle against a covert government ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey Jr., Joe Pantoliano, Daniel RoebuckDirected By: Stuart Baird
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Andie MacDowell, Christopher Penn, Lili Taylor, Robert Downey Jr., Lily TomlinDirected By: Robert Altman
