Tag: Clint Eastwood

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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Million Dollar Baby (10th Anniversary Edition) (Blu-ray)

Released in 2004, Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby took home Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Director. To celebrate the film’s tenth anniversary, Warner Home Video has reissued the Blu-ray, having previously having previously released…

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High Plains Drifter (Blu-ray)

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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Blu-ray 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, and music…

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Blu-ray Review: Invictus

Warner Bros. | 2009 | 133 mins. | Rated PG-13 At first glance, it’s easy to see why some critics dismissed Clint Eastwood’s latest directorial effort, Invictus. Some may get lost in the inescapable sentimentality of the story, therefore missing…

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Man with No Name Trilogy Coming to Blu-ray June1

Joining in the celebration of “Eastwood month”, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, in conjunction with MGM, will release The Man with No Name Trilogy on Blu-ray on June 1. This collection consists of the three westerns starring Eastwood and directed…

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Blu-ray Review: Mystic River

Warner Bros. | 2003 | 137 mins. | Rated R Beginning with his directorial debut, 1971’s Play Misty For Me, Clint Eastwood’s style has been decidedly lifeless, resulting in films that plod along—managing to be simultaneously laid back and heavy…

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