Some more productions stills from Iron Man 2 have surfaced and, while they aren’t totally revealing, they do provide a glimpse into what Don Cheadle looks like as Rhodey.  Plus, I don’t know how this is possible but it almost looks like they’ve managed to make Robert Downey Jr. look younger.
I’m also going to just confess that I really hate the casting of Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow.  There.  I’ve said it.  I’m not a huge fan of hers anyway but she just doesn’t strike me as capable of pulling off a role like this.  She’s too busy pursing …read more

Robert Downey Jr. may have made a major comeback in movies like Iron Man and Tropic Thunder but he also decided to take on The Soloist, a film that definitely tested his more serious acting abilities.
The movie is based on a true story in which Downey plays Los Angeles Times columnist, Steve Lopez, who, after a bicycle accident is injured both physically and emotionally.  He scours the city looking for a news story and ends up discovering Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx) a brilliant musician who was stricken with schizophrenia in his second year at Julliard.  His struggle with mental illness …read more

The new trailer for Sherlock Holmes hit the internet yesterday and it made me even more excited for this movie than I already was (if that was even possible).  The film marks, what I believe, yet another example of Robert Downey Jr.’s triumphant return to the movie industry.  I think he’s going to be spectacular and I feel that, along with his roles in Iron Man and Tropic Thunder, he’s demonstrating an extraordinary amount of versatility.

In the movie (set in 1891), detective Sherlock Holmes (Downey Jr.) and his partner Dr. John Watson (Jude Law) must stop a huge conspiracy to …read more