The Boys Are Back DVD Review

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The Boys are Back star Clive Owen is an infuriatingly talented actor. Infuriating because he seems to dodge attention almost with malice aforethought. From as far back as '98s Croupier (and before), he has delivered characters that are unbelievably difficult. Looking at Croupier on paper, you just wouldn't think anyone could pull that off without it turning comic, or utterly boring. His resume is … [Read more...]

Croupier – Clive Owen Doesn’t Let Go Lightly & The Post-Post-Noir

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There is a growing movement in recent times, which, since to my knowledge it hasn’t been especially analyzed, I’m going to now dub post-post-noir. Post-noir has actually been rather analyzed, and is generally regarded as the movies which ‘approximated’ film noir and were released in the 60's and 70's. Since the film noir era itself would be before that (I worked that out myself), that … [Read more...]