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  The outrageous, un-PC black comedy that blew Robert Downey Jr’s mind

  It’s a sign of how completely tastes have changed within Hollywood filmmaking that it is now inconceivable that Ben Stiller’s 2008 spoof action-comedy Tropic Thunder could be made today. The two areas that are most likely to excite controversy are the portrayal of mental disability – Stiller’s character, a fading action star, has played a figure called Simple Jack, to widespread horror – and racial politics. Robert Downey Jr plays Kirk Lazarus, an intense Australian method actor, who has undergo

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  Good Housekeeping UK

  New look at Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer

  Christopher Nolan's new movie lands next year with an all-star cast led by Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, and Robert Downey Jr.

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  7 of the best films to stream this week

  It’s not all big-hearted family films during the festive season. This week sees powerful dramas from the likes of Will Smith, Rebecca Hall and Letitia Wright too. Happy viewing! VIDEO: See the 5 most talked-about clips from episode one of Harry & Meghan Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Netflix) Category: Family This Netflix Original sees Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro reinvent the classic story of a wooden puppet brought to life in an eye-catching stop-motion musical tale. WATCH: The

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  The Guardian

  Robert Duvall’s 20 best performances – ranked!

  From the horse’s head in The Godfather to the smell of napalm in Apocalypse Now, no one does chilling menace like the 91-year-old Oscar-winner. With the release this month of his new film, we rate his greatest roles

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  The Independent

  Robert Downey Jr admits he was ‘a tad bit jealous’ of Paul Thomas Anderson’s relationship with his father

  ‘Iron Man’ star addresses his late filmmaker father’s special relationship with Anderson in new documentary

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  Evening Standard

  “It was a terrible, stupid mistake”: Robert Downey Jr’s father reveals he first gave actor drugs aged six

  The 57-year-old actor has long been open about his struggles with drug addiction but has turned his life around and is one of Hollywood’s highest-paid actors

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  Robert Downey Jr feels partly to blame for Hollywood putting franchises before 'personality'

  'Iron Man' star Robert Downey Jr. thinks he has contributed to Hollywood's apparent trend of putting franchises before "principle and personality".

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  The Independent

  ‘A waste of time’: Robert Downey Jr hits back at Quentin Tarantino’s Marvel criticism

  ‘Reservoir Dogs’ filmmaker had lashed out at the ‘Marvel-isation of Hollywood’

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  Robert Downey Jr. reflects on troubled relationship with father in new Netflix documentary

  Robert Downey Jr. reveals more about his turbulent relationship with his dad and bizarre upbringing in his Netflix documentary Sr. The documentary, filmed over the last three years of his father’s life, sheds new light on the actor, who told a judge in 1999 he'd been hooked on drugs since the age of eight because his father gave them to him. According to Mail Online, Robert admitted his addiction to cocaine and heroin was "like I have a shotgun in my mouth, and I’ve got my finger on the trigger,

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  The Independent

  ‘We can’t paint a rosy picture’: Robert Downey Sr’s life of drugs, taboo-busting films and parental regrets

  INTERVIEW: How did one of cinema’s weirdest mavericks end up as the father of one of Hollywood’s most popular movie stars? Louis Chilton speaks to documentary maker Chris Smith about his new Netflix film ‘Sr.’, which follows the singular filmmaker and his son in the final years of his life

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