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From the first few seconds of the action comedy "Tropic Thunder," the viewer understands that the film is going to be both brilliant and hilarious.

Director Jon Favreau has successfully achieved making the movie for both die-hard fans and film-goers who know absolutely nothing about the Marvel Comic superhero.

Robert Downey Jr., Tina Fey and Ben Stiller are currently in negotiations to play the leads in DreamWorks Animation's upcoming film Master Mind.

Despite not being one of the more well known personas in the Marvel Comics roster, Ironman's film debut aims to change all that.

Written, directed and starring big screen funny man Ben Stiller, new release Tropic Thunder takes on film industry stereotypes in an attempt to blast away summer doldrums

Charlie Bartlett is a seventeen-year-old to whom popularity is everything, and he does manage to achieve it... in a bathroom stall.

Iron Man is the first big blockbuster of summer, and Marvel has created the next successful superhero franchise. Jon Favreau and Company has struck gold with Iron Man.

Robert Downey Jr. recreates himself as a superhero and blows away the competition with this summer's first blockbuster movie event, Iron Man

Robert Downey Jr. is absolutely excellent. The film represents a departure from the traditional comic book movie formula. Acting and script get credence over action.

The Soloist is an emotionally absorbing dramatization of the true life story of a musical prodigy, Nathaniel Ayers.

It took a long time, but Ben Stiller almost breaks out of his creative rut with Tropic Thunder. A clever concept and good cast help elevate this movie into something fun.

Billionaire weapons maker Tony Stark is is captured and forced to build a deadly weapon. After confronting the damage he has done he decides to make things right.

The new Sherlock Holmes is a mystery but deductive reasoning is not required, one need only turn a keen eye and observe all the prime time clips from the film opening Chr

Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, is a movie about the famous American photographer who shot unusual and ground breaking portraits of people.

Marvel Comics icon The Invincible Iron Man is given the Hollywood treatment in what may be the finest superhero film released in years starring Robert Downey Jr.

The world's most famous consulting detective is no longer a courteous academic snob but now a witty poetic brute in the new Sherlock Holmes movie.

Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law play a rememberable brotherhood in the new movie released today. The movie is a beautiful divergence of old and new.

Adapted from its long-running comic-book counterpart, Iron Man was released as Marvel's first independently financed and marketed movie. A $140 million hit or miss?

Tropic Thunder is a funny satire of war movies and over-serious stars, but the DVD's extras are funnier than anything in the film itself.

Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. do their best to keep up with director Joe Wright's baton, which swings wildly all over a movie whose score needs additional notations.

Iron Man, released in summer of 2008, stands apart from the recent slew of superhero movies (Superman Returns, the Spiderman trilogy) in that it is more adult.

Danger surrounds London with super sleuth Sherlock Holmes in pursuit of a maniacal Lord out to rule the world. Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law sizzle as Holmes/Watson.

Having kicked off the summer movie season with an impressive worldwide box office of over 570 million dollars, Iron Man hits DVD with hours of great extra features. 8/10

Tropic Thunder is deceptively smart action/comedy movie that serves as a reminder to why Ben Stiller has become a recurring comedic star.

This engaging true tale of an unlikely friendship between a journalist and a homeless musical prodigy comes to the big screen through the pages of a compelling book.

Actors Brad Pitt, Will Ferrell and Jonah Hill have joined the voice cast for DreamWorks Animation's upcoming Oobermind. Movie opens November 5, 2010.

Starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr. Even parodies can get too big. Yet in the overdone mess that is Tropic Thunder, a few bright spots emerge.

Funding cuts and a lack of equal sponsorship opportunities are making it difficult for English filmmakers to compete in Quebec.

Robert Downey, Jr. excels in one of the best superhero comic book adaptations in recent years.

War mongerer. Mass murderer. Merchant of death. Billionaire genius Tony Stark has been called all these things and he's okay with that.

With the recent box office success of Iron Man, Marvel Studios is already planning a sequel to the film. Other Marvel comic book adaptations are in the works as well.

Michael Keaton's recent 16mm indie Game 6 is, as cast and crew admit, a film fueled by love of the story.

Ever since the early 1960s, the comic book fan base has been divided largely between two companies: Marvel Comics and DC Comics.

Anton Yelchin stars as Charlie Bartlett, a young man seeking acceptance in a popularity driven world. Robert Downey Jr., Hope Davis, and Kat Dennings round out the cast.

"The Soloist," which hit theaters Friday, is based on a book by reporter Steve Lopez, who has a life-changing relationship with a resident of Skid Row.

The months of summer blockbuster are over, but there's a different movie season beast right around the corner full of intense characterizations and hopes of gold.

The only published novel of Oscar Wilde, the popular story of Dorian Gray has inspired another film adaptation. How does it compare to the novel and previous adaptations?

Sherlock Holmes is probably the most famous fictional detective of all time. Indeed, it could even be argued he is the best known fictional creation of all time.

Published in 2009, 150th anniversary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's birth, this new edition of his Sherlock Holmes mysteries includes all four novels and 56 short stories.

A witty teen comedy following in the footsteps of American Pie or Ferris Bueller, Charlie Bartlett co-stars Robert Downey Jr. and Kat Dennings.

By using the setting of an over-schedule, over-budget war film set in Vietnam, Ben Stiller's new comedy pokes fun at the prima donnas cast in such an explosive debacle.

WWE's fifth installment in the WrestleMania series used the tagline "The Mega Powers Explode" as Hulk Hogan met the Macho Man Randy Savage.

Guy Ritchie's frenetic, yet exciting film style denies the audience's seduction by Sherlock Holmes (or, by the capable Robert Downey Jr.) and his brilliant deductions.

Joe Wright directs The Soloist, a film that had high hopes for awards season, but unfortunately it doesn't quite live up to the hype.

Luxury vacations in Santa Barbara are among the best in California. Great restaurants make trips here even more perfect; Luxury Travel picks and reviews the best ones.

The world's greatest fictional sleuth gets the Guy Ritchie make over with cinematic bad boys Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law taking on Conan Doyle's most famous creations.

Who will win, who will lose, and who will stay home in shame of having not even been nominated? Here are the predictions of who will walk away victorious come Oscar night

Something was missing from Lynda La Plante's new crime drama, Above Suspicion. It wasn't intrigue or star performances - it was the heroine, DC Anna Travis.

Films based on comic book characters have a history of success at the box office and the summer of 2008 will see the release of several films hoping to cash in.

Iron Man is an unbelievably entertaining film but at its core, it is about something of great interest to the entire world.