Tag: Tropic Thunder
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From ‘Collateral’ to ‘Interview with a Vampire,’ Let Tom Cruise Play Villains
Back in 2004, Michael Mann gave us a gritty thriller with Collateral, starring Jamie Foxx as a cab driver named Max who gets hijacked by Vincent, a coldly maniacal contract killer who forces Max to chauffer him from murder to murder over the course of one terrifying night. Vincent is played with reptilian glee by…
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‘Barbie’ Dream Noms: Ryan Gosling for Best Supporting Actor
There’s a moment in “Barbie” where Ryan Gosling, who plays the wickedly funny and insecure manchild, Ken, steps off the screen and yells, “Sublime!” It might be the most extraordinary Oscar-worthy clip of a person not to be seen on screen.“Barbie,” the new meta-comedy from Warner Bros, which also acts as an infomercial for Mattel,…
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Why Ben Stiller’s Comments About ‘Tropic Thunder’ Are Still Controversial
Every few years, Tropic Thunder reemerges and becomes a topic of conversation again. As of this week, the 2008 comedy is back due to Ben Stiller’s recent comments defending it from criticism against Robert Downey Jr.’s character Kirk Lazarus, a white actor who literally becomes a Black person to play his part in a movie.…
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Heath Ledger Helped Jake Gyllenhaal See The Seriousness Of Brokeback Mountain
From the moment it was announced, 2005’s “Brokeback Mountain” was the subject of ridicule — “the gay cowboy film,” people called it. If anything, the movie’s box office success and three Oscar wins (including Ang Lee for Best Achievement in Directing) only egged comedians on. Indeed, long before his infamous homophobic tweets and stand-up jokes,…
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Rain Man Ending Explained: Bet Two For Good
When it comes to portrayals of people with intellectual disabilities, there will always be a time before and a time after that controversial R-word speech in “Tropic Thunder.” It was crude, but before that, it never really occurred to me that non-disabled actors might see such roles as a route to acclaim and accolades. Afterwards, I…
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The Bad Guys review – Tarantino-style kids’ crime caper is amiable animated fun
Sam Rockwell and Awkwafina are among the voices of a ragtag bunch of animal thieves in a derivative yet enjoyable Ocean’s 11-liteThis is Tarantino for ankle-biters with a bit of Ocean’s 11 thrown in: funny, energetic and just smart enough. It’s an animated caper from DreamWorks about a gang of career criminals, crewed by five…
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Robert Downey Jr Thinks This Is His Best Role – And He’s Right
After pulling off the 2008 double whammy of starring in the blockbuster “Iron Man” and getting nominated for an Oscar for the hit comedy “Tropic Thunder,” it was official: Robert Downey Jr. became a superstar. This was a particularly crazy development because by that point the son of famed underground filmmaker Robert Downey Sr. had…
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New Book ‘Blackface’ Examines Hollywood’s Painful, Enduring Ties to Racist Performances
Conversations about Blackface, when white people darken their skin to perform exaggerated versions of nonwhite characters, often centers on the historical when it comes to the media’s role in perpetuating the racist act.In some cases, historical means the minstrels of 19th century theater, silent films, or the more recent history of satire like Robert Downey…
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Tom Cruise Protests HFPA by Returning His Three Golden Globes Trophies
Tom Cruise is returning his three Golden Globes trophies in protest of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, IndieWire confirms. Deadline was the first to report on the story. Cruise sent his three Globes trophies to the HFPA headquarters on May 10. News about Cruise’s protest broke just as NBC confirmed it would not be airing…
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Stuart Cornfeld, Producer of ‘Tropic Thunder’ and ‘Zoolander,’ Dies at 67
Stuart Cornfeld, who worked with Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films to produce movies including “Tropic Thunder,” “Dodgeball” and “Zoolander,” has died of cancer.Several of his friends posted about his death on social media.At Red Hour, which he founded with Stiller in 1999, he also produced “Duplex” starring Stiller and Drew Barrymore, “Starsky & Hutch,” “Blades…