>> Tropic Thunder (7.5/10)

Summer, 2008.  Year of the Downey Junior.  Tropic Thunder’s biggest selling point in its advertising campaign is Downey’s character, Kirk Lazarus, a white method actor who undergoes surgery to become a black man for the Vietnam film-within-the-film, also titled Tropic Thunder.  Downey is amazing in this role.  It sort of sneaks up on you, but [...]