‘Monsieur Spade’ Review: Clive Owen Headlines Smart, Accomplished Update Of Classic Character

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic I will never forget the first time I saw Devo. It was October 14, 1978, and my college roommates and I were watching “Saturday Night Live.” The band, which I had never heard of (I would guess that was true of 98 percent of the people watching the show), came on in their yellow jumpsuits, stiff and mechanical, swiveling like angry androids as they performed their brutalist robo version of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.” When the song ended, one of the band members shot up his hand in what looked kind of like a Hitler salute.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic We look at famous actors as role models, tending to see their personal lives as soap opera, as projection, as aspiration. But the story of Christopher Reeve is different. His life became a parable.

Michael Owen has emotionally said that he and his wife Louise Bonsall "pray every night" for a cure to be discovered for their son James' rare genetic condition. James, who is soon to celebrate his 18th birthday, was diagnosed with Stargardt disease at just eight years old. It affects his eyesight, and he is now 'clinically blind', meaning he had to give up his dream of following in Liverpool FC legend Michael Owen's footsteps and becoming a footballer.

Michael Owen's teenage son sweetly said his dad was "inspirational" and has helped him "through hard times" as he candidly opened up on his sight loss condition. Former England striker Michael Owen appeared on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday morning along with his 17 year old son James Owen to raise awareness of Stargardt disease. James was diagnosed with the rare condition at the age of eight and opened up on his struggles growing up before paying a sweet tribute to his dad.

Simone Biles is showing support for her husband Jonathan Owens after his team’s NFL season came to an end.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic More actors than ever are now stepping behind the camera to take a shot at directing. To me, they always end up falling into one of three categories. There are the ones who simply aren’t very good at it.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic There was a time, in the ’90s, when indie film noir thought it was being hip by imitating the trappings of ’40s thrillers ­— the dark shadows, Venetian blinds and “slinky” femme fatales. But a true noir never really looks back; it’s always pushing forward, toward fresh new varieties of desire and dread. “Love Lies Bleeding” is like that.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic There’s a moment in Titus Kaphar’s “Exhibiting Forgiveness” that speaks volumes about how trauma — racial, historical, personal — can destroy a person, even as the scene barely offers an explicit word about it. Tarrell (André Holland), an artist who paints dreamy neon-rainbow-hued suburban fantasias, has reconnected with La’Ron (John Earl Jelks), the estranged father he hasn’t seen in 15 years. La’Ron, now gray and grizzled and homeless, is a recovering addict who was rarely around and, when he was, treated his son with a ruthless indifference that edged into violence.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic For some of us, “American Fiction” has a satirical audacity that’s funny right out of the gate, gathers speed and force on the runway — and then, somehow, just when the comedy should be taking off, it turns muted and moralistic instead. I think the hitch is that after Jeffrey Wright’s Monk sells his fake memoir of Black street life, there’s a strong urge to see him — and the film — take a certain vengeful joy in how the book’s popularity skewers the racism of clueless white people. Instead, Monk is made so miserable by what happens that the movie never allows itself to discover that joy.

Love Island legend Olivia Bowen has been left heartbroken after her beloved grandfather passed away. Olivia, who appeared on Love Island with her now-husband, Alex Bowen in 2016, took to Instagram to share the sad news. She shared a number of snaps of herself with her grandma and grandad, as well as some sweet ones of him and her one-and-a-half year old son, Abel.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic “Presence,” a ghost story directed by Steven Soderbergh, is set entirely inside a lovely, renovated, 100-year-old suburban home, and before the characters even have a chance to move in, the place is already occupied. The camera literally seems to be peering at things, staring out the second-floor windows, then coming down the stairs to witness the arrival of a harried real-estate agent, then the family of four she’s about to sell the house to. Darting from room to room in an unbroken wide-angle-lens shot, the camera gives us an impromptu tour of the house, letting us drink in the crisp mint-green walls, the vintage wood that lines everything (windows, doors, stairway, fireplace), the ancient smoke-glass mirror and polished oak-board floors and elegant sprawling kitchen.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic “Skywalkers: A Love Story” lends new meaning to the words “high anxiety.” It’s a documentary set in the world of rooftoopers, the new generation of daredevils who scale the tallest buildings they can find, climbing to the tips of skyscrapers and posting top-of-the-world footage of themselves on social media. Directed by Jeff Zimbalist (a former rooftopper himself), the film is brilliantly edited, and it’s full of amazing, terrifying, transfixing verité shots of figures walking on girders, sprawling on ledges, and scaling the spindly, often curved spires that shoot out of the tops of buildings, consisting up close of ladders in the form of precarious slats.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Even next to David Bowie, with his alien regalia and mutating persona, it was Brian Eno who always seemed like the supreme spaceman of the pop-music universe. In 1972, when he first came onto the scene as the 24-year-old synthesizer wizard of Roxy Music, he sported a look that was pure glam, except that he somehow appeared even more baroque than the gender-bending rock stars of the time (the New York Dolls, Bowie, Lou Reed), because they were Dionysian pansexual strutters, whereas Eno was his own unique thing: a delicate sci-fi gamine, a geek in thrift-shop drag.

Jason Kelce is poking fun at Simone Biles‘ husband, Jonathan Owens!

Alison Herman TV Critic All works of IP exploitation are, on some level, legitimized fanfiction. Once divorced from the original author, the line that separates a franchise’s sequel, prequel or reboot from the average post on Wattpad is a great deal of money and the blessing of an estate and/or corporation.

Oscar nominee Clive Owen channels Humphrey Bogart in his new miniseries “Monsieur Spade.” “I’ve got an original ‘Maltese Falcon’ poster, so that’s how much of a fan I am,” Owen, 59, told The Post. “I’m a big fan of noir, and a huge Bogart fan. So, when [creator Scott Frank] approached me about doing a spin on Sam Spade, it was a quick, easy, ‘Yes.’” Premiering Jan.

Simone Biles is opening up about her life and career.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Not every movie — indeed, almost no movie — was meant to be turned into a musical. But the trend of doing so has become more common over the last two decades, and when you see a movie-to-musical transformation that really works, a surprising alchemy occurs.

It’s the time of the season. Every year, filmmaker Steven Soderbergh drops his annual “Seen, Read” list, a yearly compendium tracking everything the director watched or read in the year, be it a film, a TV show, a novel, a non-fiction book, etc.

Hollyoaks hunk Owen Warner has been getting cosy in snaps from a picturesque skiing holiday, as he was seen packing on the PDA with his co-star and real-life girlfriend, Jemma Donovan - and also hanging out with her famous dad. Owen must get on very well with former Neighbours star and pop singer Jason Donovan, as the latter is evidently on the snowy ski trip with them - all three seen posing for a smiley snap together, during a moment of R&R off the slopes.