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Palm Beach Daily News - Dec 25, 2006
For all the story’s rich novelty, “Children of Men” quickly slumps into a conventional chase adventure, with all the car chases, shoot-outs and close calls required by the genre. It’s spectacularly made, but ultimately it’s an arty characters-on-the-lam thriller. With the baby as plot trigger, the story is really about Theo’s heroic transformation from frigid introvert who has one friend in the world — a wonderfully charming, light-on-his-toes Michael Caine as a shaggy old hippie buoyed by home-grown weed — to a man on a life or death mission. Bullets flying, bombs blasting, Theo is a reluctant hero, never certain what his mission is about, until, late in the game, he is shown Kee’s maternal ripeness. As the movie’s pragmatic but pessimistic center, he colors much of its dark core. So insistently is Theo drawn like this, a mythic noir type, that Owen isn’t given much to work with. Theo has dimensions — about two — that span his recessive self to his reignition as a man of activist conscience and action.
Boro boss urges transfer caution
Ireland Online - Dec 25, 2006
Southgate takes his side to Everton tomorrow convinced he has got to strike the right balance between his host of young talent and any new buys in the January transfer window. Home-grown stars Stewart Downing, Andrew Davies, James Morrison and Andrew Taylor all started in Saturday’s comfortable 2-0 victory over Charlton at the Riverside Stadium. But Southgate admitted: