4K UHD Review: The Outlaw Josey Wales
Clint Eastwood’s fifth film as a director, The Outlaw Josey Wales, derived from the novel Gone to Texas by Forrest Carter, is one of Eastwood’s best early westerns. Armed with a screenplay by Sonia Chernus and Philip Kaufman, with music by Jerry Fielding (The Wild Bunch, The Enforcer, Semi-Tough), the film possesses the characteristics that […]
4K UHD Review: The Eiger Sanction
Based on the novel by Rod Whitaker and directed by star Clint Eastwood, The Eiger Sanction centers around Dr. Jonathan Hemlock (Eastwood), a former government assassin whose specialty was to sanction, or do away with anyone the government suspected of killing an American agent. A mountain climber and art professor, his personal collection includes rare […]
4K UHD Review: Two Mules for Sister Sara
A wanderer in the desert, Hogan (Clint Eastwood) is on his way to meet Mexican rebels when he stumbles across Sister Sara (Shirley MacLaine), a nun being attacked by three drunken bandits. The two end up going the same way across the unsafe desert. Soon, they realize their common interest. Hogan has been promised gold […]
4K UHD Review: Play Misty for Me
Clint Eastwood made his directorial debut in 1971 with Play Misty for Me. Shot in just twenty-one days, Eastwood stars as Dave Garber, a popular late night disc jockey for a small station in Caramel, California. One night, a regular female caller requests that he, “Play Misty for me.” Later, he meets the woman at […]
Blu-ray Review: The Beguiled
Released in 1971 (the same year as Dirty Harry and Play Misty for Me), the gothic melodrama The Beguiled was a disappointment at the box office. Based on the novel A Painted Devil by Thomas P. Cullinan, The Beguiled is set in the final days of the Civil War and concerns Cpl. John McBurney (Clint […]
Blu-ray Review: Play Misty For Me
Clint Eastwood made his directorial debut in 1971 with Play Misty For Me. Shot in just 21 days, Eastwood stars as Dave Garber, a popular late night disc jockey for a small station in Caramel, California. One night, a regular female caller requests that he, “Play Misty for me.” Later, he meets the woman at […]
Blu-ray Review: Two Mules for Sister Sara
A wanderer in the desert, Hogan (Clint Eastwood) is on his way to meet Mexican rebels when he stumbles across Sister Sara (Shirley MacLaine), a nun being attacked by three drunken bandits. The two end up going the same way across the unsafe desert. Soon, they realize their common interest. Hogan has been promised gold […]
Blu-ray Review: High Plains Drifter
Clint Eastwood’s second film as a director—and his first western, High Plains Drifter takes us back to his days making spaghetti westerns in Italy with Sergio Leone. His character, a gunslinger known simply as “The Stranger” passes an unmarked grave as he rides into the weary, lakefront mining town of Lago. The stranger stops in […]
Blu-ray Review: Bronco Billy
A former New Jersey shoe salesman-turned sharpshooter, Bronco Billy (Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby) is the leader of a scarcely attended traveling Wild West Show. Under the tent, nothing goes smoothly: snake dancers are bitten, and the latest Lovely Assistant misses her cues. Ever the dreamer, Billy pushes on, acting as cheerleader and den mother […]
The Bridges of Madison County (Blu-ray)
One of the bestselling novels in history, Robert James Waller’s 1992 novel, The Bridges of Madison County, has sold over 50 million copies. Most critics hated it, but the public ate it up. I remember seeing several women reading the book in the line at the grocery store; The Bridges of Madison County was everywhere! […]