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 ...

A few words of advice for those among you fortunate and/or dogged enough to have seen the original The Singing Detective miniseries that aired on the BBC in 1984: If you plan on seeing the new movie, ...

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.

In Dennis Potter’s masterwork miniseries, novelist Philip Marlow (Michael Gambon) lies in a hospital bed with a crippling skin condition, mentally reworking a pulp detective story while thinking back ...