Million Dollar Baby (2004)
As a director, Clint Eastwood has sometimes been down, but never for the count, and if you consider the last two films he has directed, Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby, you might even conclude he has hit...
As a director, Clint Eastwood has sometimes been down, but never for the count, and if you consider the last two films he has directed, Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby, you might even conclude he has hit...
I dig Clint Eastwood, and I normally like Kevin Costner, so this pairing of the two would seem like a can’t-miss proposition. It misses. It’s a shame because there are many things going for A...
Although still utilizing his Western persona, Coogan’s Bluff marks the first Eastwood cop flick, and the first of five films he would do for director Don Siegel, the most notable of which would be his second...
I’ve always been an admirer of Clint, both as actor and director, but after watching him turn in some lackadaisical work as director in Absolute Power, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and True Crime, I...
1970s / Action / Adventure / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 7, 2001 · Last modified March 8, 2019
Based on the novel by Trevanian (aka Rod Whitaker, who co-wrote the screenplay), Clint plays art professor and successful mountain climber, Jonathan Hemlock, who comes out of retirement as an assassin for a secret government...
by Vincent Leo · Published August 3, 2000 · Last modified March 22, 2019
In the latest Clint Eastwood directed movie, Clint finally tightens his directorial style with one of the better releases of the summer of 2000. This one has a Russian satellite which has malfunctioned after...
Long before Three Kings there was this early 70s war-comedy gem called Kelly’s Heroes, with a terrific cast and funny situations. Set during WWII, this tells the tale of a small group of Americans who learn of a...
Clint Eastwood stars as Ben Shockley, a Phoenix cop sent to Nevada to transport a key witness for a well-publicized mafia trial. The woman in question is a feisty prostitute named Gus Malley (Locke),...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 18, 1999 · Last modified March 22, 2019
An Oakland journalist, alcoholic and womanizer (Eastwood), is given the job to write a human interest story about a man who is slated to be executed that evening (Washington). The label on the reporter...
Writer John Kelso (Cusack, Bullets Over Broadway) travels to Savannah to write for a magazine on the home of Jim Williams (Spacey, LA Confidential) , but the story turns out to be not so much his house,...
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