Dan Dark is rotting. Quarter-sized holes on his face and torso and discolored skin pulling apart from his body in big strips instantly reveal to us that something terrible is going on in Dark’s body.

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 ...

The Singing Detective is the story of a writer of pulp-fiction novels, hospitalized for a horrible skin condition that has his entire body flaking and raw, and his mind slipping in and out of fever ...

It's good to see Robert Downey Jr. back onscreen in a big starring role after his well-publicized stumble into drug-related troubles. It would have been even better to see him in a better film.

The Ross Faranda Trio, a jazz group, will perform from 8 p.m.-10:30 p.m. Saturday at Arabica Coffe House, 33730 Bainbridge Road. Faranda, a Solon police detective, will sing songs from the Great ...

Two years before he died, in 1994, Dennis Potter reworked the script for his legendary seven-hour 1986 British television series, The Singing Detective, by switching its setting Stateside to Chicago ...

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. 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 ...