Clive Owen

  • EntertainmentVariety

    ‘Impeachment: American Crime Story’ Casts Clive Owen as Bill Clinton

    Clive Owen has been cast as President Bill Clinton in the upcoming third season of "American Crime Story" at FX, Variety has confirmed. The season will focus on Clinton's impeachment and the Monica Lewinsky scandal. It was previously announced that Beanie Feldstein will star as Lewinsky, with Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp and Annaleigh Ashford as […]

  • NewsYahoo Movies

    Clive Owen Returns to Driving Duties in Neill Blomkamp-Helmed New BMW Short Film 'The Escape'

    Back in 2001, BMW Films produced a series of online shorts to promote the company’s latest line of cars. Starring Clive Owen as “The Driver,” and directed by ace filmmakers including John Frankenheimer, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai, Guy Ritchie, Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Woo, Joe Carnahan, and Tony Scott, the vignettes were an early Internet sensation, as well as one big reason so many die-hard James Bond fans were rooting for Owen to step into 007’s dapper shoes. While that never transpired, O

  • NewsKen Tucker

    'The Knick' Season Finale Review: Is It All Over?

    WARNING: SPOILERS FOLLOW FOR THE SEASON FINALE EPISODE OF THE KNICK. The buck-naked, jittery speech Thack gave to the startled but undeniably impressed assembly of physicians can stand as one of Clive Owens’ greatest moments to date. The most rich of these explored the ever-more-desperate schemings of hospital manager Herman Barrow (Jeremy Bobb), whose weasel-working is coming back to bite him quite viciously.

  • NewsDave Nemetz

    'The Knick' Postmortem: Clive Owen on Thackery's Risky Surgery and the Future of the Series

    Warning: This post contains spoilers for the “This Is All We Are” episode of The Knick.

  • NewsDave Nemetz

    'The Knick': Andre Holland on Algernon's Frustrating Season and that Eye Surgery Scene

    Things were looking up for The Knick’s lone black surgeon Dr. Algernon Edwards when Season 2 opened: He served as the hospital’s chief of surgery while Dr. Thackery (Clive Owen) got treated for his cocaine addiction. All of that means we had a lot to talk about with Andre Holland, who plays Algernon on Cinemax’s superb medical drama. Holland spoke with Yahoo TV about Algernon’s futile efforts to earn respect from some of his colleagues, the effect his wife Opal’s arrival has had on him this se

  • NewsDave Nemetz

    'The Knick' Season 2 Preview: Dr. Thackery's New Addiction — and a 'Walking Dead' Addition

    The freshman season of Cinemax’s The Knick was a knockout, both visually and dramatically, with Clive Owen starring as Dr. John Thackery, the drug-addled chief surgeon of a cash-strapped hospital in 1900 New York. It managed to be both repulsive, with stomach-churning surgery scenes where very few patients survived, and mesmerizing, with beautiful candlelit scenes shot by Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh. But what can it do for an encore?

  • NewsKen Tucker

    'The Knick' Review: Thack Is Back And He’s Wack

    The Knick, whose second season premieres tomorrow night on Cinemax, is an exception to this feeling of mine: I admire it, and enjoy it a lot. A central theme of this show overseen by director/cinematographer Steven Soderbergh is the relentless push forward of history, propelling people into future innovations and social situations whether they’re ready or not.