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AfterEllen (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
When Harriet Braun pitched Lip Service to BBC, she promised it would be funnier and more authentic than The L Word , and now she's going to get the chance to prove it. The lesbian-centric tragi-comedy received a green light from BBC in September , and it has already begun filming. Ruta Gesamintas will play Frankie. The six-part mini-series will revolve around Frankie ( Ruta Gedmintas ), Cat ( Laura...
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Dunedin Napier News (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
By Caroline Fraser As parents, carers and teachers fret about what effects the dreaded swine flu bug will bring next, many of us forget to ask the children. With at least 12 schools closing their doors across Scotland headteachers are worried about their pupils’ education. In addition, parents across the nation are terrified they too will succumb [...]
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Clive Owen is a free-range parent who just can't say no in The Boys Are Back This mournful melodrama serves up Clive Owen as a "free range" parent in an Aussie Kramer vs. Kramer.
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The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Actors don’t come much edgier than Clive Owen. In Croupier, Sin City, Inside Man, Children of Men, The International, Duplicity, and especially The Closer — for which he was Oscar-nominated — Owen’s edge was front and center. That’s part of the reason he was in the running as the new James Bond. In The Boys Are Back, [...]
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
The Boys Are Back, adapted from a Down Under newspaperman's I'm-a-single-dad memoir, is full of possibility: Possibilities for mawkishness, for sap, for one big pity party.
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
A widowed dad doesn't quite come to grips with his shortcomings as a parent in "The Boys Are Back." This mournful melodrama serves up Clive Owen as a "free-range" parent in an Aussie "Kramer vs. Kramer." The movie argues that no matter how selfish or irresponsible, Dad is still the right one to raise his son.
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Pajiba (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Scott Hicks' The Boys Are Back might not be a great film, but it is a good and true one, full of the frantic and crushing moments of real life. Hicks is obviously able to put a lot of personal...
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Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Clive Owen is good as a suddenly single father struggling to bring up his sons. Eschewing such things as rules and structure, bewildered by grief and wholesale lifestyle changes, he wants to do right by the boys but has no real clue how to. Owen's performance is the best thing about the film. (PG-13 - 104 minutes) P.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
"The Boys Are Back" is a pleasant and moving story of a family at different stages of growing up and moving on. It stars Clive Owen as Joe Warr and Nicholas McAnulty and George MacKay as his sons, Artie and Harry. A review by Seattle Times movie critic Moira Macdonald.
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
To their credit, director Scott Hicks and star Clive Owen demonstrate enviable restraint in their efforts to avoid making a sentimental feast of The Boys Are Back , a true-life drama about a rakish British sports writer who is forced to come to terms with his grief, the realities of fatherhood and the demands of his profession when his wife dies after a brief and harrowing battle with cancer.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
“The Boys Are Back” has a burnished, high-quality look and a heart swollen with maudlin self-regard.
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Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
The British thespian gives us the inside scoop on this touching family drama.
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
It's been 30 years since Kramer vs. Kramer took movie audiences by surprise with its tale of a workaholic dad forced to reorder his priorities...
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