Clive Owen's latest is a good little art-house film stuck in the body of a Hollywood script that constantly teeters towards over-sentimentality. I mean, they didn't even get the license for the actual song from "Irish Hard Rock Band" Thin Lizzy.
The Boys Are Back, without Thin Lizzy.
Shoot Fake Infants at the Alamo This Thursday
So apparently this new movie not only makes Paul Giamatti into a bad guy, but also features a gunplay scene filmed entirely while the principal battlers are falling from airplanes, as well as several semi-dangerous-looking gunfights with a human infant in the middle of the proceedings. Clive Owen is the good guy—once again, as in "Children of Men", protecting a baby that's not his own (come on guys, doesn't Clive Owen deserve his own freaking...
Don't Be the LCD: This Week's New Movie Releases!
Slim pickin's today, friends. You can either choose a movie starring Oscar winners/nominees (which of course doesn't guarantee anything), or you can go with movies that cater to the lowest common denominator. Which is apparently pretty damn low these days. *Inside Man Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster. Kudos, Spike Lee, for making a movie with one fine-lookin’ cast. (*Ed. Note: We saw a sneak preview of this movie and really enjoyed the nuances...

