Robert Downey Jr’s MCU return is like trying to bottle lightning twice. Can you hear the Marvel thunder?
Breaking the bank: are Hollywood stars getting paid too much?
July 2024
Robert Downey Jr returns to Marvel as Doctor Doom
Iron Man actor stuns fans at San Diego Comic-Con, removing mask to reveal he will rejoin franchise in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday
June 2024
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: The Sympathizer; My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom; Eric; Camden – review
Park Chan-wook directs a dazzlingly audacious spy thriller, while Mark O’Sullivan turns personal trauma into black comedy
May 2024
TV review
The Sympathizer review – Robert Downey Jr thunders around in prosthetics in this stylish Vietnam drama
TV tonight
TV tonight: Park Chan-wook’s adaptation starring Hoa Xuande and Robert Downey Jr
The watcher
The Sympathizer: Robert Downey Jr totally steals the show in electric spy thriller
Robert Downey Jr to make Broadway debut this year
March 2024
Oppenheimer wins best picture Oscar as Emma Stone pulls surprise win
Robert Downey Jr wins best supporting actor Oscar for Oppenheimer
February 2024
Baftas 2024: Emma Stone, Gillian Anderson and Cillian Murphy on the big night – in pictures
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer gamble pays off with Bafta night success
Peter Bradshaw
January 2024
Oppenheimer beats Barbie as Bafta nominations announced
Golden Globes 2024: the big winners – in pictures
December 2023
Week in geek
Has Marvel really ditched Iron Man from the MCU? Don’t count on it
Robert Downey won’t be back, but the MCU stands on the shoulders of masked heroes, not the people playing them. Plus, a new man in the iron suit could revive failing box-office fortunes
July 2023
‘A spectacular achievement’: first reactions praise Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan’s $100m epic, out 21 July in the US, has premiered to acclaim with some calling it his finest film to date
June 2023
Week in geek
Robert Downey Jr as Doctor Doom? Does the MCU multiverse mean anything can happen?
The Iron Man star nearly played the role 20 years ago in Fantastic Four. Will the movie’s reboot see the latest ‘almost was’ become an ‘is’, following Nicolas Cage’s Superman?
March 2023
Three ways Robert Downey Jr’s Vertigo might not be Hollywood’s stupidest ever idea
Vertigo: remake of Hitchcock thriller set to star Robert Downey Jr
December 2022
Sr review – Robert Downey Jr paints an affectionate portrait of his father
Downey Jr starred in Robert Downey Sr’s wacky counterculture movies as an child; now he puts this radical and potent personality in a documentary of his own
