2008 has definitely been Robert Downey Jr.'s year. He started the year with a supporting role in the indie teen film Charlie Bartlett playing a troubled high school principal. Then he exploded this summer in the highly anticipated Iron Man and shattered every fanboy's expectation of Tony Stark. He finished off the summer playing the unthinkable: an actor who undergoes skin surgery to play a black man in the hilarious Ben Stiller film Tropic Thunder, and then actually made the role WORK. This fall, an overlooked Robert Downey Jr. film arrived on DVD that only further proves his versatility as an actor: the 2003 comedy/drama/noir/musical/character study The Singing Detective. »»
