Tropic Thunder. By Valentina Tapia ... or Hot Fuzz lovingly goofing on cop flicks, some writers and directors can’t help but try their hand at legit, ... After an enormous, crucial explosion, ...

Tropic Thunder Production: A DreamWorks/Paramount release of a DreamWorks Pictures presentation of a Red Hour production, in association with Goldcrest Pictures. Produced by Stuart Cornfeld, Ben ...

In 2008, Stiller broadcast far and wide that he screened “Tropic Thunder” for representatives of the NAACP and a few Black journalists. A decade and a half later that detail is cited as a ...

A Hollywood parody of the Scary Movie variety, Tropic Thunder becomes the butt of its own joke. Bombastic actors satirically play bombastic actors — without much effect, says critic Cynthia Fuchs.

“Tropic Thunder” director/actor Ben Stiller in 2008 promoting the problematic movie, in which Robert Downey Jr. wears blackface. (Jacques Brinon / Associated Press) By Robin Abcarian ...

The scene opens with gigantic explosions in the Vietnamese jungle and debris sailing into the sky, while a pack of soldiers rushes wildly about firing bullets at surrounding enemies. Men yell at each ...

Tropic Thunder always seems to cycle back into the cultural discourse every year or so as people grapple with its comedic legacy. But 15 years later, Stiller refuses to budge.

Robert Downey Jr. has long defended his role in “Tropic Thunder,” the 2008 comedy from director Ben Stiller that cast the “Iron Man” star as an egotistical Australian thespian who takes ...

Ben Stiller yet again addressed the controversy around ‘Tropic Thunder,’ though the details of it, involving blackface and intellectual-disability discrimination, become fuzzier through time.

Ben Stiller doubts "Tropic Thunder" could get made today because "edgier comedy is harder to do" now and Robert Downey Jr. in Blackface is "dicey." ...