The year 2008 was a great one for Robert Downey, Jr. The same year he played Tony Stark in Iron Man he also played Kirk Lazarus, the black faced “method actor” in Tropic Thunder. Both were big hits, but it was Iron Man that had legions of acne-pocked fanboys clamoring for more of the villainous […]

I’ll be honest with you — I am NOT one of those people that delights in commercials showing babies acting like adults, or talking, or doing any of that bullshit. In fact I’ll admit I’m not a big fan of babies in general — I feel very frightened around their tender heads, like I’ll accidentally […]

It sounds like a genius idea: Reinvent stuffy, intellectual Sherlock Holmes as a depraved, brilliant, rakish, martial-arts expert, cast Robert Downey Jr (Chaplin meets Iron Man!) and hire an actual actress, instead of a hot chick who can recite lines, to play the love interest! Finally, hire Brit Guy Ritchie to turn this puppy into […]

Gotta say I’m pretty excited about this one. Jon Favreau absolutely killed it directing that first film — as far as comic book movies go, it would be almost impossible to beat his adaption of Iron Man. He nailed it in pitch, humor, characterization, everything. You can tell Favreau really knew the source material, which […]

Due to the overwhelming Nerdocity of this site, I’m sure you all expected that I was standing in line at 10 pm last Thursday night, eagerly awaiting the midnight premier of Iron Man in my Magic Wizard Cap and trusty replica lightsaber. Truth of the matter is, I spent the entire weekend prepping for my […]