Movie Reviews and Previews The Avengers must be playing baseball That’s my takeaway from the new extended TV spot for Avengers: Age of Ultron—they must be playing baseball. This spot features a lot of new footage, including Thor swinging for the fences using his hammer as the bat and Captain America’s shield as the ball. Easily the By Sarah • Mar 19, 2015 03:34 pm
Amazingness Now it’s RDJ’s turn Chris Evans and Chris Pratt took turns dressing up as their superhero characters in order to visit children’s hospitals, and now RDJ is taking a turn, going in character as Tony Stark to deliver an actual bionic arm to a boy who was born with a only a partial By Sarah • Mar 13, 2015 10:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ultron is here to ruin everything, including your childhood Marvel released the second trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron last night and they are doubling down on the creepy renditions of “I’ve Go No Strings”. Put that free Disney songbook to work, dude, but now I will forever be creeped out by Pinocchio. Not that a sentient talking By Sarah • Jan 13, 2015 10:47 am
Robert Downey-Jr RDJ wants to eat the people It was part of Robert Downey Jr’s acceptance speech at the People’s Choice Awards last night. You know what cracks me up about this event? More than at any other, it’s so obvious that the winner has been brought out right before their honour, in the front By Lainey • Jan 08, 2015 11:26 am
Sexiest Man Alive 2014 Robert Downey Jr Arguments for: -How has he never been the Sexiest Man Alive? He’s the biggest movie star in the world right now. -The Avengers comes out in a few months. It’ll be MASSIVE. -Everyone loves him, loves him, loves him and they love his comeback story -Stable family life, By Lainey • Nov 07, 2014 01:05 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Avri Roel Downey (Jr.) You know when you meet a new friend or a romantic partner and you’re drunk on them and everything is wonderful? You think they’re fantastic and where have they been all your life and then you realize, with a ‘chonk’ in your stomach, that they are about to By Duana • Nov 06, 2014 11:17 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Dr Banner and Tony Stark are honoured Mark Ruffalo and Robert Downey Jr were honoured last night at the Britannia Awards in LA. Mark was presented with the Humanitarian Award for his work in advocating for clean water. Because, yes, he’s the best. Always. Even Dame Judi Dench thinks so. RDJ received the Stanley Kubrick Britannia By Lainey • Oct 31, 2014 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome to the Superhero Clubhouse Marvel will never be finished with you. Just surrender now, give them all your money, and maybe they’ll let you have every other Thursday for yourself. After yesterday’s bonanza of news, last night during an episode of Agents of SHIELD Marvel aired some new footage from Avengers: Age By Sarah • Oct 29, 2014 11:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Marvel just broke the internet A couple weeks ago Warner Brothers announced the future of the DC Cinematic Universe during an investor phone call. They dumped a lot of information on us in the least exciting way possible, and by the end of the day I’d heard from multiple sources that the response from By Sarah • Oct 28, 2014 04:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain America vs. Iron Man—Marvel’s Civil War is happening RDJ has been talking up a potential extension of his contract to play Iron Man, and everyone jumped on the Iron Man 4 grenade, because he made some wiseass comments about Iron Man 4. I didn’t buy that he was in talks for another Iron Man installment, but that By Sarah • Oct 14, 2014 10:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews RDJ, Forever and Always: Part Two Okay, now that we’ve talked about the Marvel can of worms RDJ has opened up, let’s move on to how delightful RDJ is in general, which is SO DELIGHTFUL. First, there’s his appearance on The Howard Stern Show in which he talked about Sarah Jessica Parker. Stern By Sarah • Oct 08, 2014 09:55 am
Media Manipulation RDJ, Forever and Always: Part One RDJ’s new movie, The Judge, opens this weekend, which means that RDJ is making the press rounds and giving us so much to talk about that we actually had to split it into two posts. He’s already given us the glimpses into his family life and his relationship By Sarah • Oct 08, 2014 09:41 am
Robert Downey-Jr The belly-cupping Downeys But first, Team Downey is on the cover of the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter. It’s a joint interview featuring RDJ and his wife Susan which doesn’t happen too often. But The Judge is a Team Downey production – their first – and they’re doing everything they can By Lainey • Oct 02, 2014 11:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews RDJ: Cars and cheeseburgers RDJ covers the new issue of Vanity Fair in advance of the Team Downey release of The Judge. It's a standard RDJ interview, which means he's forthcoming, if not always comprehensible, and generous, and unapologetic without sounding defensive. As always, RDJ speaks openly about his addiction By Lainey • Sep 09, 2014 02:02 pm
Robert Downey-Jr Intro for September 5, 2014 Dear Gossips, Ben Mulroney said to me yesterday after interviewing Robert Downey Jr for The Judge that he’d never seen someone so comfortable in his success. Not arrogant. Not entitled. But comfortable. Comfortable is the word, because when someone is so at ease in his position, no one else By Lainey • Sep 05, 2014 09:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews RDJ: TIFF, Scarjo, and Gwyneth TIFF 2014 opens tomorrow. Sarah’s preview for the festival will be posted shortly as an advance overview of the entire event. But the gala on Thursday night belongs to The Judge. Robert Downey Jr, the biggest movie star in the world, is opening TIFF. Shinan Govani wrote a piece By Lainey • Sep 03, 2014 11:50 am