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 ...

When does self-awareness become self-indulgence? The answer, in the context of "Tropic Thunder:" Who cares? We're too busy laughing at it to engage in much analysis.

Ben Stiller isn't sure he would have "ventured" to make "Tropic Thunder" in today's comedy environment. "I doubt it," Stiller told Collider, when asked if "Tropic Thunder" could be made today ...

"Tropic Thunder," Ben Stiller’s cameo-filled send-up of war movies which opens August 15, had a sneak peak at UCLA recently. Our summer intern, Micah Gottlieb, went and brings some early ...

“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.

His 2008 satire Tropic Thunder follows a hapless cast and crew as they struggle to complete a Vietnam War-era epic, and it dips into identity discourse, bonkers action, and toilet humor.

Ben Stiller said he made 'no apologies' for the controversial 2008 film 'Tropic Thunder' while responding to a tweet from a user who alleged he had caved to cancel culture.

Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr. in 'Tropic Thunder.' Jack Black is a childish, out-of-control comic. Robert Downey Jr. is an actor with a madness to his Method. Ben Stiller is a pampered hack ...

My favorite gag in “Tropic Thunder” comes just before “Tropic Thunder” itself, in a movie trailer touting a fake movie called “Satan’s Alley.” (That’s an in-joke for all you ...

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 continued to defend the controversial 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder, in which he played a method actor wearing Blackface for a role. Speaking to Rob Lowe on his podcast ...