Articles Posted in the " Robert Downey Jr " Category

  • Due Date

    Todd Phillips’ latest film features Robert Downey Jr and Zack Galifianakis in a comedy road movie. Due Date is that ‘difficult’ second project. People, watch carefully to see if The Hangover was a sign of good things to come or just a flash in the pan…



  • Sherlock 2 casts its Moriarty

    Crimety, the Sherlock Holmes 2 news just keeps on coming. Yesterday we leant (with great learning joy) that Stephen Fry was to take the role of Holmes’s brother Mycroft in the Guy Richie sequel. Today, we have a Moriarty. Mad Men’s Jared Harris has bagged the role of the Sherlock’s arch-nemesis, apparently plucking the part away from the likes of Brad Pitt and Gary Oldman.



  • Friday Face/Off: Tom Cruise

    Do you have a favourite actor? How about a least favourite? In our semi-regular J’Accuse feature, two of Best For Film’s most opinionated writers go head to head in a no-holds-barred tussle over an actor or film which one thinks is super and the other reckons to be shite. This week: everyone’s favourite couch-jumping superstar, Tom Cruise!






  • Sherlock Holmes: DVD Review

    Sherlock Holmes had so much potential. The Great Detective is deathless and compelling, and as sublimely paired with Doctor Watson as whiskey and getting dumped by text. Therefore, the obvious thing to do with this archetypal Englishman – reserved, clinical, supremely intelligent – is to hand his canon to a laddish director best known for marrying Madonna. Isn’t it?