Christmas has been very low key this year. I am on the Gold Coast with my mother who is just out of hospital and recovering from a pretty big operation. She is doing really well, but it made for a low key day and since we are both being careful with money, we put an [...]

Petty thief, but basically decent guy, Harry Lockhart (Robert Downey Jr.), stumbles into an audition for a Hollywood detective story while escaping the police. Whisked off to L.A. Harry is teamed up with tough-guy private eye, Perry van Shrike (Val Kilmer), aka Gay Perry, who is supposed to help him prepare for his screen test.

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