Robert Downey Jr. is a terrific actor but not enough people know it. His best work has been in movies few people saw. The sad part about his much-publicized drug problem wasn't just that it almost ...

Raymond Chandler by way of Dante and Busby Berkeley may begin to describe the sensibility of "The Singing Detective," Keith Gordon's ambitious, ultimately superfluous adaptation of Dennis Potter's ...

Sometimes, the most famous stars make projects that fall into obscurity, and even Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. aren't immune to it. For Gibson, fans fondly recall classics like Lethal Weapon and ...

Alison Steadman looks back at Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective, hailed as one of the most important and influential TV dramas ever made, and once described by Stephen King as ‘television’s ...

Sir Michael Gambon, the actor known for playing writers, wizards, and everything in between, has died aged 82. The legendary star of stage and screen, who received three Olivier Awards, two Screen ...

Less a remake than a reinvention of the landmark 1986 BBC miniseries, Keith Gordon’s vibrant, hyperstylized feature is based on a script completed by Dennis Potter shortly before his death in 1994.

Robert Downey Jr. stars in this movie remake of the British television musical miniseries about detective novel writer Dan Dark, who is laid up in the hospital. Fiction and reality blur for Dark, who ...