10 posts tagged ‘robert downey jr’
Rob Lowe accidentally congratulated Bradley Cooper on his Golden Globes loss
AV Club,
It’s a good thing Bradley Cooper doesn’t actually have Homelander’s powers from The Boys, as some observers joked on Twitter/X earlier this month after the actor seemed, well, less than thrilled about his Golden Globes loss. If so, Rob Lowe would probably be nothing more than a smoldering pile of lasered ashes by… Read more...
Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin is now the dark beating heart of Marvel’s TV shows
Marvel Studios released Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfeld’s Hawkeye in November 2021 as a little holiday treat for superhero fans, but the real joy was the way the show gradually teased the return of Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk—with D’Onofrio reprising his role from Netflix’s Daredevil show, where he was one of… Read more...
The best and worst moments from the 29th Critics Choice Awards
Some awards shows allow actors to pick the awards. Others allow kids. The Critics Choice Awards, however, towers over all of them, especially the People’s Choice Awards, because it is chosen by critics. Yes, the very people whose Rotten Tomatoes scores fandoms frequently tell viewers to ignore are in control tonight,… Read more...
2024 Critics Choice Awards: Check out the big red carpet arrivals
After last week’s Golden Globes, awards season continues in full swing with the 29th Annual Critics Choice Awards. Chelsea Handler returns to host the ceremony—let’s hope the monologue powers-that-be are on her side. The top TV nominees include The Morning Show (yes, really) and Succession, while the Barbenheimer… Read more...
Robert Downey Jr. Wishes His MCU Work Got More Real Recognition
Gizmodo,
The MCU started with Robert Downey Jr.’s career-defining turn as Iron Man all the way back in 2008. Over the next 11 years, Downey would reprise the role for numerous sequels and team-ups, and now that he’s had some distance from the whole shebang, he thinks his Marvel tenure was intentionally overlooked. Read more...
Have we ever been as happy as Paul Giamatti reminiscing about being an orangutan?
Paul Giamatti’s cinematic roles tend to land on the dour or frustrated side—something used to great effect in his latest critical success, Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers. And yet, there’s also a deep capacity for sudden sparks of joy lurking underneath Giamatti’s performances, one we might previously have described… Read more...
Robert Downey Jr. explains how making Iron Man was a little bit indie
A little over four years ago (!), Martin Scorsese made a now-infamous pronouncement: Marvel movies are “not cinema.” In fact, they’re more like theme parks, in the Killers Of The Flower Moon director’s eye. That first shot kicked off a war as virulent as the one the Avengers had to fight against Thanos himself. It’s… Read more...
Tom Holland has so much respect for Robert Downey Jr. that he actually saw Dolittle
The SAG-AFTRA strike is over, meaning actors are now free to go back and promote the things they made that came out during the strike, and The Hollywood Reporter is taking advantage of that by having Tom Holland sit down for a chat about Apple TV+’s The Crowded Room—a story inspired by the 1981 non-fiction book The… Read more...