Tag: Clint Eastwood

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Play Misty For Me

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…

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Two Mules for Sister Sara

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…

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High Plains Drifter

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…

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Bronco Billy

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…

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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…

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