CLINT EASTWOOD IN SERGIO LEONE'S 'FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE'

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihUd8QOdfu4Ftod1moKxmTrrg0f2N5E8GO3mQ36UuznKcaojaJLUp3GOIcsNVI5Zfj12kA7R4TMTCRObPfMLS3l8SIYkhdcVAuZveIvY36Xkfuum8ahnkV8uTomwDvsoSaWmGQv46qlfLvLxB5LpHy2OxItuCXpsjsK5AONVYB6IVbgzb8Hv3ShtoXdVGh/s1218/Screen%20Shot%202025-03-14%20at%202.30.14%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="632" data-original-width="1218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihUd8QOdfu4Ftod1moKxmTrrg0f2N5E8GO3mQ36UuznKcaojaJLUp3GOIcsNVI5Zfj12kA7R4TMTCRObPfMLS3l8SIYkhdcVAuZveIvY36Xkfuum8ahnkV8uTomwDvsoSaWmGQv46qlfLvLxB5LpHy2OxItuCXpsjsK5AONVYB6IVbgzb8Hv3ShtoXdVGh/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-03-14%20at%202.30.14%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Clint Eastwood in FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE Year: 1965 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Sergio Leone's <i>Man With No Name</i> or <i>Dollars Trilogy</i> was mainly interpreted as such from the second movie's sustaining title, A FEW DOLLARS MORE, sounding as if Clint Eastwood's Joe character were returning after FISTFUL OF DOLLARS... but he's named Monco here, a resilient bounty-killer with initially reluctant partner Lee Van Cleef as older, more experienced and slightly superior sharp-shooting Col. Douglas Mortimer... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p>The best scenes take place in the small town buildup before the screen-time's stretched twenty-minutes too far in holed-up, sparsely rural locales, where at one point Eastwood watches Cleef mentally-squaring off with the violently villainous gang, as if he too were hearing Ennio Morricone's tension-building score... <br></p><span></span>

clint eastwood, ennio morricone, gian maria volontè, klaus kinski, lee van cleef, sergio leone, sixties, spaghetti western

CLINT EASTWOOD IN SERGIO LEONE'S 'FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE'

Clint Eastwood in FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE Year: 1965 Rating: ****1/2 Sergio Leone's Man With No Name or Dollars Trilogy was mainly inte...

CLINT EASTWOOD WITH ROBERT DUVALL & PAUL KOSLO IN 'JOE KIDD'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5vzyZ6PzkehhX02MzMgax2gKtscr9SIB5ZqFlNjme_0N6flhTSX37yOpS3dmYSAzATpUaiHCPD7zVSPnqf2pnRiNTDPzwf6Z-WFe-IZie46jSOvNF-Vaa6now0O3aAzUWbnkY72vZdUhZ2AKO1vOG7sRVFctKNAdqdgduXYLVMD3vQpNkxi-Oy8BMyzpL/s2028/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-17%20at%2010.27.57%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1304" data-original-width="2028" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5vzyZ6PzkehhX02MzMgax2gKtscr9SIB5ZqFlNjme_0N6flhTSX37yOpS3dmYSAzATpUaiHCPD7zVSPnqf2pnRiNTDPzwf6Z-WFe-IZie46jSOvNF-Vaa6now0O3aAzUWbnkY72vZdUhZ2AKO1vOG7sRVFctKNAdqdgduXYLVMD3vQpNkxi-Oy8BMyzpL/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-17%20at%2010.27.57%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: BEAST WITH A GUN Year: 1977 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The best sequence in the John Sturges American-made Spaghetti-Western-knockoff starring Clint Eastwood has the titular former bounty hunter creatively debilitating a group of Anglo villains, one-by-one, all within the central, purgatory-rural, middle-of-nowhere location where a church is filled with Mexican locals since land baron Robert Duvall... searching for idealistic Mexican leader John Saxon... decides that Eastwood's hired-gun JOE KIDD has his agenda on the wrong side: a logical choice for a cowboy picture with 1970's political sensibilities...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which is penned by Elmore Leonard, so Eastwood begins... like Charles Bronson would in MR. MAJESTYK... as a clever and smart-allecky, Leonard-style anti-hero: but soon enough he's quieter, more lowkey and slow-burn than Eastwood is usually, initially pitted politely against Duvall's henchman from Don Stroud to James Wainwright to another MAJESTYK actor Paul Koslo... in what's an 82-minute programmer-length fable that needed either more action, more character-development, or more villains for Eastwood to play those short-lived tricks on: being the only moments that genuinely feel part of an actual Elmore Leonard story.</p><span></span>

action, clint eastwood, james wainwright, john saxon, john sturges, paul koslo, robert duvall, seventies, stella garcia, western

CLINT EASTWOOD WITH ROBERT DUVALL & PAUL KOSLO IN 'JOE KIDD'

Title: BEAST WITH A GUN Year: 1977 Rating: **** The best sequence in the John Sturges American-made Spaghetti-Western-knockoff starring Clin...

CLINT EASTWOOD AS DIRTY HARRY VS DAVID SOUL 'MAGNUM FORCE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggddRaxfTZWmxM0fRmOcq_dQH6yyUtPhdz2zBbVyBJMPjkpwaoNYi6PSa9yorfjFWgF2yNK2kYGTkULjoIzcfwUPuBc9ePT0Dd0OTVyeW7kIdyA0Z8sTTzoZgPik9qz_ap6SyVg1D2ELWvTuX-i4CQQaxShQ2AZEeudzOVeavohhR3Zp0MFxAVz8nnzNQg/s2308/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-05%20at%209.58.47%20PM%202%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1286" data-original-width="2308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggddRaxfTZWmxM0fRmOcq_dQH6yyUtPhdz2zBbVyBJMPjkpwaoNYi6PSa9yorfjFWgF2yNK2kYGTkULjoIzcfwUPuBc9ePT0Dd0OTVyeW7kIdyA0Z8sTTzoZgPik9qz_ap6SyVg1D2ELWvTuX-i4CQQaxShQ2AZEeudzOVeavohhR3Zp0MFxAVz8nnzNQg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-05%20at%209.58.47%20PM%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Clint Eastwood and David Soul in MAGNUM FORCE Year: 1973 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Director Don Siegel's DIRTY HARRY was a cultural phenomenon that gave Clint Eastwood a franchise and character for two decades while defining his persona even beyond the Sergio Leone westerns...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But it was the 1970's, a decade of gritty films but also political correctness, and the sequel... written by John Milius and Clint's future THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT director Michael Cimino... gave the thug-beating, lawbreaking lawman a break by creating a story where there are literal killer cops... actually doing what Harry's been accused of influencing or even instigating (he's even joked about being a suspect since he hates criminals so much)— all to make Dirty Harry Callahan less crooked and more by-the-book, by comparison...  </p><p><span></span></p>

action, clint eastwood, cop, david soul, dirty harry, felton perry, franchise, hal holbrook, john milius, michael cimino, richard devon, robert urich, seventies, tim matheson

CLINT EASTWOOD AS DIRTY HARRY VS DAVID SOUL 'MAGNUM FORCE'

Clint Eastwood and David Soul in MAGNUM FORCE Year: 1973 Rating: ****1/2 Director Don Siegel's DIRTY HARRY was a cultural phenomenon tha...

CLINT EASTWOOD IN 'THE EIGER SANCTION' WITH GEORGE KENNEDY

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidiwvn0rUnrwFPp06oSCfu1F5lsKVbuAHOkbMJiW_h8PwwqcYF79fEisWSvRMVRatpvsUo3X0Q9HUGVPRlYgBFrfyEf1fhLeSg05kJbAdQozKzqUExMJIUvnKeHrxa3IOaeQdGxtK4ev946LhMQ8nEzoDCSWt1Z6XnH3EQ21W0GESQ3v4b0VE-qGdu0Su3/s1602/1%203.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="1602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidiwvn0rUnrwFPp06oSCfu1F5lsKVbuAHOkbMJiW_h8PwwqcYF79fEisWSvRMVRatpvsUo3X0Q9HUGVPRlYgBFrfyEf1fhLeSg05kJbAdQozKzqUExMJIUvnKeHrxa3IOaeQdGxtK4ev946LhMQ8nEzoDCSWt1Z6XnH3EQ21W0GESQ3v4b0VE-qGdu0Su3/s16000/1%203.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE EIGER SANCTION Year: 1975 Rating: *** Grade: C+</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Clint Eastwood's THE EIGER SANCTION foreshadows RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK having an otherwise mild-mannered, seemingly-average college professor with a dangerous side-job... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Only here Clint's Jonathan Hemlock is far more dangerous being a hired assassin in what plays like a James Bond vehicle including an enigmatic, monologue-spouting code-name tycoon and several gorgeous, extremely easy women (featuring gorgeous blaxploitation starlet Vonetta McGee) who turn on the central hero...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, candice rialson, clint eastwood, george kennedy, gregory walcott, hit-man, jack cassidy, neo noir, seventies, thayer david, vonetta mcgee

CLINT EASTWOOD IN 'THE EIGER SANCTION' WITH GEORGE KENNEDY

Title: THE EIGER SANCTION Year: 1975 Rating: *** Grade: C+ Clint Eastwood's THE EIGER SANCTION foreshadows RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK havin...

BURT REYNOLDS AND CLINT EASTWOOD TEAM FOR 'CITY HEAT'

<p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdH0keeL8EP_DhcTnkaPU1AJnaGxXY3HonsP7aRL65NT2VTeVjw1VfIuLPRQU0591PogFDWguVtAj3XRB34B8PURJzeehgmT1d4syTDiXeSVI5RZsRdXnOoFCrBSblhyR0QZbMxEyIjiFMl-6X6P_zuLTZcfwt5OFNJRfxSh_LwdRn7K72yPS3Ik0LaQx3/s991/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-18%20at%207.30.39%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="991" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdH0keeL8EP_DhcTnkaPU1AJnaGxXY3HonsP7aRL65NT2VTeVjw1VfIuLPRQU0591PogFDWguVtAj3XRB34B8PURJzeehgmT1d4syTDiXeSVI5RZsRdXnOoFCrBSblhyR0QZbMxEyIjiFMl-6X6P_zuLTZcfwt5OFNJRfxSh_LwdRn7K72yPS3Ik0LaQx3/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-18%20at%207.30.39%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: City Heat Stars: Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds Year: 1984 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Remembering the time, as a young action movie fan, when realizing CITY HEAT did <i>not</i> take place in an edgy modern setting — before the knowledge and love of Film Noir and/or Classic Gangster flicks — was a complete letdown...<br> <br> Years have opened the mind, and, while remaining an overall dud to what it could have been given the collaborative talents of Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds, CITY HEAT has gotten a little more entertaining... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

action, bruce m. fischer, buddy, burt reynolds, clint eastwood, cop, eighties, gangster, gumshoe, jane alexander, madeline kahn, neo noir, richard benjamin, richard roundtree, team-up

BURT REYNOLDS AND CLINT EASTWOOD TEAM FOR 'CITY HEAT'

Title: City Heat Stars: Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds Year: 1984 Rating: *** Remembering the time, as a young action movie fan, when realiz...

CLINT EASTWOOD STARS IN DON SIEGEL'S 'ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0NMPbGR7g33hXOhOea16iVFXLDy79HlkFJyKKA-qTNKkfvlNELXZ--xFhSETJFBPHVaxjlT1osuyYCbj7bWX-TWtucyIgc508bEufPEhv_eHlmnkzktZuUntqkaxR6BkUY3QrRhtdDq6RbCrwOXB-NjH0O9h-kY4KmrXQcasdviU_5rVkxHZzGaKiBg/s1597/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-17%20at%205.31.47%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1052" data-original-width="1597" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0NMPbGR7g33hXOhOea16iVFXLDy79HlkFJyKKA-qTNKkfvlNELXZ--xFhSETJFBPHVaxjlT1osuyYCbj7bWX-TWtucyIgc508bEufPEhv_eHlmnkzktZuUntqkaxR6BkUY3QrRhtdDq6RbCrwOXB-NjH0O9h-kY4KmrXQcasdviU_5rVkxHZzGaKiBg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-17%20at%205.31.47%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Clint Eastwood in ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Don Siegel's ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ starred his most famous actor/collaborator, Clint Eastwood, and it turns out the picture seems more Eastwood-directed because of the rather safe, mainstream appeal...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>For instance, once Eastwood as new inmate Frank Morris... the real life prisoner who actually escaped with two brothers and were never heard of since... enters the infamous rock island as horror movie lightning lights up the dark Alcatraz interior, the upcoming sequences has Clint's character meeting friendly inmates and, with one major exception, the most notorious prison in American history doesn't seem all that awful...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, bruce m. fischer, clint eastwood, don siegel, escape, exploitation, fred ward, jack thibeau, larry hankin, patrick mcgoohan, paul benjamin, prison, roberts blossom, seventies

CLINT EASTWOOD STARS IN DON SIEGEL'S 'ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ'

Clint Eastwood in ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2 Don Siegel's ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ starred his most famous actor/collabo...

CLINT EASTWOOD WITH JESSICA WALTER IN 'PLAY MISTY FOR ME'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3LZ4I4jO_fy_AvsdL0QsmxbcOTFLkChnIjKomE346JGCqX9SecvOiFTzE8oI0lbLxToEkBapxD9ofDUbOCV4cqb7Ucj0r0zamTSnpttySs3jNSrTb9TTd0WLLxzG5Ifl0Xx_1CcKUd3PAFNwOh3XwLsXWh0DHQQ26LDqokwVyUjcTsSgK-TRiYlOxIdlL/s2232/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-27%20at%203.43.55%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1136" data-original-width="2232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3LZ4I4jO_fy_AvsdL0QsmxbcOTFLkChnIjKomE346JGCqX9SecvOiFTzE8oI0lbLxToEkBapxD9ofDUbOCV4cqb7Ucj0r0zamTSnpttySs3jNSrTb9TTd0WLLxzG5Ifl0Xx_1CcKUd3PAFNwOh3XwLsXWh0DHQQ26LDqokwVyUjcTsSgK-TRiYlOxIdlL/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-27%20at%203.43.55%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Clint Eastwood directs and stars in PLAY MISTY FOR ME Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Clint Eastwood, in moving from actor to director and combining both... directing himself... isn't quite the scowling tough guy he became famous for — although he has his share of grimacing expressions from a one-night-stand turned obsessed lover Jessica Walter, at one point describing how his nostrils flare when he gets really riled...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>She's enough of a manipulating woman turned lethal nightmare to make anyone reach their breaking point, and, in basically the same role (including a pivotal suicide attempt) that would earn Glenn Close an FATAL ATTRACTION Oscar nomination, poor Jessica doesn't get nearly enough time to spread her devil wings throughout...</p><p><span></span></p>

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CLINT EASTWOOD WITH JESSICA WALTER IN 'PLAY MISTY FOR ME'

Clint Eastwood directs and stars in PLAY MISTY FOR ME Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2 Clint Eastwood, in moving from actor to director and combini...

CANVASING THE UNIQUE CAPER OF 'THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT'

<p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ6GkisxXEHkX9avasJnODPr7TRSNMl3end-uZs6IKG7kalnMWJMcVojIUTvsmN_OkRU3sawuaf3bB439Xl3VI0Sl6-_CXNBvjrTDjxMtw4jPDBZLVL7B2_iqAUlGn2Lb--uqWZtyqIVMiIv9w9rYravZfYpv4GWf-ddu6TLCptpraYfuem1v4s43ERA/s1122/36.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="1122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ6GkisxXEHkX9avasJnODPr7TRSNMl3end-uZs6IKG7kalnMWJMcVojIUTvsmN_OkRU3sawuaf3bB439Xl3VI0Sl6-_CXNBvjrTDjxMtw4jPDBZLVL7B2_iqAUlGn2Lb--uqWZtyqIVMiIv9w9rYravZfYpv4GWf-ddu6TLCptpraYfuem1v4s43ERA/s16000/36.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THUNDERBOLT & LIGHTFOOT Director: Michael Cimino Stars: Clint Eastwood Year: 1974 Score: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There's a quote in the 1974 cult action flick THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT about an experienced ex-bank robber played by Clint Eastwood teamed with a young freewheeling Jeff Bridges... <br> <br> Ironically "Stick with me, kid, you're gonna live forever" is young Jeff's line as Lightfoot to Clint's Thunderbolt since the<i> </i>enigmatic, offbeat youngster  speaks in almost all hackneyed adages...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

action, bill mckinney, catherine bach, chase, clint eastwood, geoffrey lewis, george kennedy, hangout, heist, jack dodson, jeff bridges, june fairchild, michael cimino, roy jenson

CANVASING THE UNIQUE CAPER OF 'THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT'

Title: THUNDERBOLT & LIGHTFOOT Director: Michael Cimino Stars: Clint Eastwood Year: 1974 Score: **** There's a quote in the 1974 cu...

CLINT EASTWOOD STARS/DIRECTS DIRTY HARRY IN 'SUDDEN IMPACT'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYMOwMF8gR-2QoNO7iMAJ_ZWX29r723yMthihNkr0Dvej2qWm8Vt1LBIFjo8sVCwG_4zrvYnRAuI9HSO10m07Zz_V_G9humW4phAbfh0ojmrixT1ZOaNlatk-V7qmGCEAhv8xHLlXzgEzy_HNpj72ZB4ty1p9e7-El-6Xvs7cl0U98_UKtFSieS8-OJQ/s1985/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-13%20at%205.50.12%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="1985" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYMOwMF8gR-2QoNO7iMAJ_ZWX29r723yMthihNkr0Dvej2qWm8Vt1LBIFjo8sVCwG_4zrvYnRAuI9HSO10m07Zz_V_G9humW4phAbfh0ojmrixT1ZOaNlatk-V7qmGCEAhv8xHLlXzgEzy_HNpj72ZB4ty1p9e7-El-6Xvs7cl0U98_UKtFSieS8-OJQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-13%20at%205.50.12%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Clint Eastwood in Sudden Impact Year: 1983 Rates: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The penultimate Dirty Harry is an exploitation of slick, mechanized 1980's violence, body count style, twofold, as vengeful killers stalk Callahan while the mainline has artist Sondra Locke seeking her own revenge from a group of small town San Paulo locals that, years earlier, under a carnival pier, raped her and her sister, inspiring morbid gallery paintings, and, hiding in plain sight, she's restoring the same carnival's carousel while randomly killing off the rapists...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, Harry is, ironically, being punished for leaving a trail of dead villains who wanted <i>him</i> dead first... sent on what he thinks is a busman's holiday/nowhere murder case, also in San Paulo where the second act has an investigatory town-with-secrets noir vibe, connecting the picked-off perverts with a stern local sheriff...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, albert popwell, audrie neenan, body count, bradford dillman, clint eastwood, cop, dirty harry, eighties, exploitation, franchise, mara corday, pat hingle, sondra locke, thriller

CLINT EASTWOOD STARS/DIRECTS DIRTY HARRY IN 'SUDDEN IMPACT'

Clint Eastwood in Sudden Impact Year: 1983 Rates: **** The penultimate Dirty Harry is an exploitation of slick, mechanized 1980's violen...

RIP WILLIAM SMITH 'ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN' CLINT EASTWOOD

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNefBCvC7n0DGYke1OwKyVlWq3goCZHHFNzD98l5ykGPOBisc9-A0hJJQHN_drTz2SlcridcRFgPmSCElL5QscpNSueSp7G5fw8r-3ab0F-Fwxl6dUz_ZFDFR_kIm82ZLjONT31-9dMYgw/s1354/23.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1071" data-original-width="1354" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNefBCvC7n0DGYke1OwKyVlWq3goCZHHFNzD98l5ykGPOBisc9-A0hJJQHN_drTz2SlcridcRFgPmSCElL5QscpNSueSp7G5fw8r-3ab0F-Fwxl6dUz_ZFDFR_kIm82ZLjONT31-9dMYgw/w400-h316/23.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Smith pointing the way Year: 1980 Rates: ***1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The popular sequel ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN surpasses BUT LOOSE by getting the bickering love story between Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke out of the way, and while Geoffrey Lewis as Clint's junkyard business partner deserved more scenes, William Smith adds genuine bad ass legitimacy and alone takes the place of the random HARD TIMES style money-brawls spread throughout the original, as it's all one big anticipated match here, a kind of QUIET MAN moveable bout filmed nicely by Clint's stuntman buddy Buddy Van Horn who, like Smith himself, also died recently, so let this be a quick memorial for both...</p><p></p><p>William Smith was one of the great heavies of cinema, and television, peaking a few years back as villain's villain Falconetti in both <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/06/falcon-eddie.html">RICH MAN, POOR MAN</a> series, and before that swung fists in a slew of biker, horror, blaxploitation and exploitation flicks. But what made the more mainstream ANY so great is he's a nice tough guy, who becomes friends with Clint's Philo Beddoe before the match... Philo whose beloved pet is that famous orangutan pet Clyde, doing the same "Right Hook" to knock down a biker gang, one of several repeats including Ruth Gordon doing her noisy old broad character: Thus ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN allows the viewer to hangout with these hangout-movie characters instead of going through the motions of getting to know them. So Beer's To You, William Smith... and Buddy Van Horn too. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, clint eastwood, comedy, eighties, geoffrey lewis, ruth gordon, sondra locke, william smith

RIP WILLIAM SMITH 'ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN' CLINT EASTWOOD

William Smith pointing the way Year: 1980 Rates: ***1/2 The popular sequel ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN surpasses BUT LOOSE by getting the bickerin...

CLINT EASTWOOD STARRING IN 'THE MULE' W/ BRADLEY COOPER

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnCyJGNS9ff2UtGF4BjvNJk7qW7Eyml3ANTvUmPAoapovfM61HV0zMqYSf5GlpTcOTWZ6LoQoXRaFi8l-F616KE1kbKtJW9TruI5qLzeM_nzZRoE7anv3ZRqIYqjkPBrhvkAYYuDoJ7jje/s1600/Mule-2.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="599" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnCyJGNS9ff2UtGF4BjvNJk7qW7Eyml3ANTvUmPAoapovfM61HV0zMqYSf5GlpTcOTWZ6LoQoXRaFi8l-F616KE1kbKtJW9TruI5qLzeM_nzZRoE7anv3ZRqIYqjkPBrhvkAYYuDoJ7jje/s400/Mule-2.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year of Release and Capture: 2018</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Actor/director Clint Eastwood, using very little action and suspense for a supposed crime thriller, is otherwise fun to watch as a 90-year-old makeshift and initially oblivious drug runner both underrated and untouchable like when, in one scene, a traffic cop with a sniffer dog appears out of nowhere, and another while crossing paths with Clint's AMERICAN SNIPER star, Bradley Cooper...<br> <br> But Cooper's mellow DEA agent... puzzled by this mystery driver's successful operation... could have been played by anyone... Same with his partner, ANT-MAN comic relief Michael Pena... Both led by Laurence Fishburne as their passive chief, sitting around within a quiet, practically vacant office building. Everything's so breezy in this lawmen's b-story, not much really matters. But the cops <i>are</i> a necessary distraction from Earl's annoying and cliché, semi-estranged, constantly whining family similar to (the far superior) GRAN TORINO, only without a house to inherit, or muscle car...<br>

2018, bradley cooper, clint eastwood, crime, drama, drugs, laurence fishburne, michael peña, new

CLINT EASTWOOD STARRING IN 'THE MULE' W/ BRADLEY COOPER

Year of Release and Capture: 2018 Actor/director Clint Eastwood, using very little action and suspense for a supposed crime thriller, is...

AGAR & ALLAND DOUBLE FEATURES 'TARANTULA' & 'MOLE PEOPLE'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNACyPV-S6VrOnFItwoyMD4v4-fyITcoRZHrf2ZHgr94bY4aVsfnLMPqcrQKacTWAajHoHF5SHClmkoF1c6DAW8FbtR3Se8ecHDyFrNww0WxCKWN0pf-_hRYuq4O3J0OlWIdpkctxQ8-Q/s1600/222222.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNACyPV-S6VrOnFItwoyMD4v4-fyITcoRZHrf2ZHgr94bY4aVsfnLMPqcrQKacTWAajHoHF5SHClmkoF1c6DAW8FbtR3Se8ecHDyFrNww0WxCKWN0pf-_hRYuq4O3J0OlWIdpkctxQ8-Q/s400/222222.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The man who shoots the TARANTULA is pictured below YEAR: 1955</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <u>TARANTULA</u>: The now obsolete special-effects method of superimposing insects or critters to make them seen giant, menacing and formidable only works since they're something we humans can easily otherwise hunt, shoot or step on – and now it's their turn to turn <i>us</i> into roadkill, or dinner...<br> <br> But, using the enlarging-of-nature device for a contrived short-cut, producer William Alland's THE LAND UNKNOWN had footage of Gila Monsters to seem like dinosaurs, which didn't work since turning something naturally (relatively) small into what's supposed to be gigantic is just plain cheap – a possible one of several reasons his most capable and talented stock director, Jack Arnold, backed out of the project. But a year earlier, not only did Arnold direct TARANTULA, one of the best 1950's b-movie creature features, it's derived from a story he himself co-created...<br>

clint eastwood, creature, fifties, hugh beaumont, jack arnold, john agar, leo g. carroll, mara corday, nestor paiva, science-fiction, spiders, william alland

AGAR & ALLAND DOUBLE FEATURES 'TARANTULA' & 'MOLE PEOPLE'

The man who shoots the TARANTULA is pictured below YEAR: 1955 TARANTULA : The now obsolete special-effects method of superimposing insec...

CHEERS TO CLINT EASTWOOD & SONDRA LOCKE IN 'BRONCO BILLY'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6FCJ9j7pDRIluoZoMmzWRcwUDq4440IE8vXMJ131Zymqtac10GxLEedB_hdl-2DdKIUFYQAGWxrVy_B5JBnl7J_sPe1M4W7ZDuLXMQr7bSXiJ3obVpUlsMOxCNERx4uiSdZznY4gz84Wx/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-01-13+at+4.15.58+PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="906" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6FCJ9j7pDRIluoZoMmzWRcwUDq4440IE8vXMJ131Zymqtac10GxLEedB_hdl-2DdKIUFYQAGWxrVy_B5JBnl7J_sPe1M4W7ZDuLXMQr7bSXiJ3obVpUlsMOxCNERx4uiSdZznY4gz84Wx/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-01-13+at+4.15.58+PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sam Bottoms, Sondra Locke, Clint Eastwood and Bill McKinney in BRONCO BILLY Year: 1980</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> At one time this was Clint Eastwood's favorite movie directed and starring, Clint Eastwood. Not sure if that's changed from when the statement was originally stated by the man who has directed plenty... But for Cult Film Freak it holds up as completely logical and legit, still...<br>

adventure, bill mckinney, clint eastwood, eighties, geoffrey lewis, juliette lewis, mental ward, sam bottoms, scatman crothers, sondra locke, tessa richarde, walter barnes

CHEERS TO CLINT EASTWOOD & SONDRA LOCKE IN 'BRONCO BILLY'

Sam Bottoms, Sondra Locke, Clint Eastwood and Bill McKinney in BRONCO BILLY Year: 1980 At one time this was Clint Eastwood's favorit...

EASTWOOD & BRIDGES ARE 'THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-0c7HYDPkaSEgsem74qOiGlQHwMSVTlLd14a5GbQ0ShaZjSbz0oX9_FiIr9nAmzPzqR_fToqsHaWvUpj8krIJRkCLVsPt1oj1DkmrXWc1BnJCISPHhaTEftWGDwDCLo9KX3r-Xi4d9A/s1600/0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-0c7HYDPkaSEgsem74qOiGlQHwMSVTlLd14a5GbQ0ShaZjSbz0oX9_FiIr9nAmzPzqR_fToqsHaWvUpj8krIJRkCLVsPt1oj1DkmrXWc1BnJCISPHhaTEftWGDwDCLo9KX3r-Xi4d9A/s400/0.jpg" width="260"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1974</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> By the end, it's pretty obvious Jeff Bridges' Best Supporting Actor nomination for THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT was a result of what occurs during the last twenty minutes, but this relatively underrated movie, directed by MAGNUM FORCE (the second and best DIRTY HARRY flick) co-scriptwriter and future DEER HUNTER visionary turned HEAVEN'S GATE studio-breaking Michael Cimino, isn't altogether normal...<br> <br> In fact, Jeff plays one of the most bizarre and unique and, at the same time, utterly simplistic, naive and innocent characters in the gritty 1970's (in this case, 1974) Action/Adventure genre...<br> <br> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHM71-YlqTOEfXF7HqWsFVPhlvUP4PlMWICujWF1M1FKSOI4s0FU6ERkqeUq8pNdKjdmGvH0zB2Hzr7fgeSOgDSu9zpAg6YWUCApRjeox5NBOJWDqb9Tw4gToXDesNCLMD9R4aumPyHnA-/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-08-06+at+1.23.32+PM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1042" data-original-width="522" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHM71-YlqTOEfXF7HqWsFVPhlvUP4PlMWICujWF1M1FKSOI4s0FU6ERkqeUq8pNdKjdmGvH0zB2Hzr7fgeSOgDSu9zpAg6YWUCApRjeox5NBOJWDqb9Tw4gToXDesNCLMD9R4aumPyHnA-/s320/Screen+Shot+2018-08-06+at+1.23.32+PM.jpg" width="160"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Clint Eastwood</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Although Caper/Heist should be thrown into the multi-genre mix since what everything boils down to are four guys trying an "impossible" theft that actually was accomplished years earlier... that we learn through dialogue and never witness. Things went extremely awry and now the strongest, most intimidating of the bunch, George Kennedy's Red, in his most formidable, intimidating roles, has, in the edgy present, one goal in mind...<br> <br> To kill bank-robbing genius Clint Eastwood who, as road-wise THUNDERBOLT to Jeff's more local-leaning LIGHTFOOT, turns in one of the most natural, loose performances of his career, beginning as a "preacher" that gets (sought out and) hunted by Red's partner, played by tough-guy staple Roy Jenson, and is then saved by the aforementioned young fellow who, having just stolen a car right off the lot, and seeming already on the run, perpetually quoting cliche one-liners and with no actual destination or substantial backstory for his own existence, becomes a partner with an initially annoyed THUNDERBOLT, and then two even more reluctant veterans are driven nuts by the ever-jokey "kid" who still knows a thing or two, and always takes chances...<br>

action, caper, clint eastwood, geoffrey lewis, george kennedy bill mckinney, hangout, heist, michael cimino, road movie, seventies, suspense, team-up

EASTWOOD & BRIDGES ARE 'THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT'

Year: 1974 By the end, it's pretty obvious Jeff Bridges' Best Supporting Actor nomination for THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT was a re...

BRADLEY COOPER IN AMERICAN SNIPER

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTq3kflWT_cBOMUvLFEKW7THJpTWAqKHfSvVnxiCQ6dFe8O13QTZuluND_8Il1O8n7WaseNxc74gp3NJF9xNSl2BS_goGy4Ef3dTkMdp6SZA_FpX31yexJCb0uopPSYQmhsxql3fDxrx8/s1600/a0b62d22-56e3-4248-89ee-45b95f71b47e.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTq3kflWT_cBOMUvLFEKW7THJpTWAqKHfSvVnxiCQ6dFe8O13QTZuluND_8Il1O8n7WaseNxc74gp3NJF9xNSl2BS_goGy4Ef3dTkMdp6SZA_FpX31yexJCb0uopPSYQmhsxql3fDxrx8/s320/a0b62d22-56e3-4248-89ee-45b95f71b47e.JPG" width="178" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2014 rating: **1/2</td></tr> </tbody></table> Bradley Cooper plays Chris Kyle, the AMERICAN SNIPER who was a deadeye on the battlefield and a legend even before his tragic and bizarre murder. In Iraq, he had well over a hundred reported kills; his skills as a sniper are the best aspects as far as direction goes... <br /> <br /> Clint Eastwood brings us up close and personal into the hidden nooks where Kyle scopes each target. Unfortunately, these scenes merely bookend an assortment of hectic raids within dilapidated desert towns while, back home between tours, we get peripheral glances into a budding family life.   <br /> <br /> AMERICAN SNIPER doesn’t center on Kyle’s intense patriotism except a few blurted words sometimes countered by disgruntled soldiers or his wife. This hinders a potentially intriguing performance by Cooper, who seems too comfortable: There are times where we <i>almost</i> catch the glimpse of a tortured soul while more light is shed on his noticeable guilt, either shooting or aiming at human targets, especially children, and the sniper-at-work suspense is edgy and palpable. But Clint Eastwood doesn’t completely allow us inside the man like he did those hidden coves where the harsh yet necessary work is done: keeping Bradley Cooper from opening up and letting loose like we know he can.

2015, bradley cooper, clint eastwood, war

BRADLEY COOPER IN AMERICAN SNIPER

2014 rating: **1/2 Bradley Cooper plays Chris Kyle, the AMERICAN SNIPER who was a deadeye on the battlefield and a legend even before hi...

CLINT EASTWOOD DIRECTS JERSEY BOYS

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFiQHzU7OyWsCZHEt_SXF0EFo-zMBqRTFSnJP65kdrQ-E5mdMaz0YAsd6az7w1LMFIA7-Rscz8e1mTuNBP0l5d5F3TMUKkuj7tfwsJQ0nQU_GcR21Km_gcAKgbEbHgiq9OXELBkKZgFBg/s1600/jersey-boys-poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFiQHzU7OyWsCZHEt_SXF0EFo-zMBqRTFSnJP65kdrQ-E5mdMaz0YAsd6az7w1LMFIA7-Rscz8e1mTuNBP0l5d5F3TMUKkuj7tfwsJQ0nQU_GcR21Km_gcAKgbEbHgiq9OXELBkKZgFBg/s320/jersey-boys-poster.jpg" width="207" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 2014 rating: **</td></tr> </tbody></table> Based on an immensely popular Broadway musical, JERSEY BOYS, about the rise and fall of the pop band The Four Seasons, although directed by Clint Eastwood, strives for good old fashion Martin Scorsese street savvy charm…Hell, there's even an actor playing a young Joe Pesci...<br /> <br /> We begin in the streets of New Jersey through a mugging face-the-camera narration by founding member Tommy DeVito (Joe's name in GOODFELLAS), a two-bit hustler with a scam for just about any occasion. He puts his crooked mind at work and something usually comes of it, even if jail time is part of the deal...<br /> <br /> It's through Tommy we learn (and are constantly reminded) that being bad is simply part of the game. And while actor Vincent Piazza does a pretty decent job stealing scenes and just about everything else, he seems very alone in the process...<br /> <br /> Soon enough, Tommy has some very important company, leading to the young man of the hour, Frankie Valli, with a voice like a falsetto angel and, with a sneaky devil on his shoulder, Frankie and Tommy have the sort of friendship that leads to predictable trouble... <br /> <br /> The two main performances are alright, especially since the actors do their own crooning, but Piazza and John Lloyd Young seem to be going through the motions, as if rehearsing for a much grittier film. And soon enough, they're no longer nobodies: eventually the boys form their own band, first called The Four Lovers and then, after a bowling alley neon inspiration, the Four Seasons are born…<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivbJpB6tQEZfCApnzTu_DAZtruVifyzt4spH3pWaudVSpZEwfqzrHvpud0u3-ldZ3nbNS4VZhIW63M7K9RnA8xkdnGQi0yVJ0r6AYCxo_a7g1fnyqkd0xZqjJbagIJzksYZYHxChon0q8/s1600/the-four-seasons-entertain-you-175240.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivbJpB6tQEZfCApnzTu_DAZtruVifyzt4spH3pWaudVSpZEwfqzrHvpud0u3-ldZ3nbNS4VZhIW63M7K9RnA8xkdnGQi0yVJ0r6AYCxo_a7g1fnyqkd0xZqjJbagIJzksYZYHxChon0q8/s200/the-four-seasons-entertain-you-175240.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the Real FOUR SEASONS</td></tr> </tbody></table> The transition from working musicians to big stars seems a bit rushed, while their initial climb to the top is a lot more interesting. Beginning as background singers with an itch for their own fame, soon enough their dreams are fully realized. And yet, having a string of back-to-back hit songs, thanks to the much more classy and thoughtful songwriter/keyboardist Bob Guadio, the movie never seems entirely focused on a famous band: The boys are far more comfortable in stolen clothes than when the money rolls in, which is probably intentional. They're Jersey punks no matter how much money is earned... <br /> <br /> Although a lot feels held back in this rags to riches tale – the second act plays out more like a daydream than a biopic. And while the poster has the boys singing under a street lamp, we hardly get a glimpse of their unified pre-limelight struggle.  <br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAE_4KFK4Nqd3sNTW9gIIeVg3YjHE1zgEhNz2anjwbx0HN40UOFt9UjSmSurjs3IVuq8EdTH7_un7wdVcnBiKLzErZcFL9jO-Dn5rDGq3ryP-4dizPxWLnN202WzVRILqV1vjKBLwo89k/s1600/the_deer_hunter_1978_friends_playing_pool.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAE_4KFK4Nqd3sNTW9gIIeVg3YjHE1zgEhNz2anjwbx0HN40UOFt9UjSmSurjs3IVuq8EdTH7_un7wdVcnBiKLzErZcFL9jO-Dn5rDGq3ryP-4dizPxWLnN202WzVRILqV1vjKBLwo89k/s320/the_deer_hunter_1978_friends_playing_pool.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Famous DEER HUNTER Frankie Valli sing-along</td></tr> </tbody></table> The main problem is the melodramatic side effects occurring as the boys play big bills and make sporadic television appearances. This includes Tommy’s gambling debts, Frankie’s troubled marriage and the ultimate tragedy of losing a kid, all treated in a somewhat breezy, TV soap fashion. Even a pivotal meeting between Christopher Walken's mob boss, a vengeful bookie and the troubled band has no palpable edge...<br /> <br /> So right as we’re getting to know The Four Seasons as a solid act, not only are they falling apart at the seams, but there wasn’t enough time centered of their fame to make the inevitable decline really matter. Meanwhile, Tommy’s fourth-wall-breaking narration is replaced with that of good guy bassist Nick and songwriter Bob... yet their casual approach lacks the punch that made Tommy's roguish gab so intriguing.  <br /> <br /> Director Clint Eastwood, who provides a unique cameo as RAWHIDE plays on a TV set, awkwardly balances grungy street life with shiny musical numbers. Meanwhile, the legitimately classic Four Seasons songs come and go like the breeze, while the buildup for Valli’s solo/comeback <i>Can’t Take My Eyes Off You</i> is much too grandiose, glorified and anti-climactic for its own right... especially after tweaking the horn section to sound like a Vegas lounge act from hell... What's with the intruding saxophones!?! <br /> <br /> Everything gets conveniently summed up with a tacked-on reunion at the 1990 Music Hall of Fame... the actors, wearing aged makeup, seem part of an SNL skit... And we finish with an overlong song & dance routine obviously geared for fans of the Broadway musical, where this particular story is probably much better suited. 

2014, biopic, christopher walken, clint eastwood

CLINT EASTWOOD DIRECTS JERSEY BOYS

year: 2014 rating: ** Based on an immensely popular Broadway musical, JERSEY BOYS, about the rise and fall of the pop band The Four Seas...

JIM CARREY INVADES CLINT EASTWOOD CINEMA

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyr7wA1ZLwNQ0n_kNJCqHk4wGkCUr6r187WSLewThxByCW_cb6VKeTqvu2U3Qb7ONUfWfnL0wAaDSUFjidWkABnvxtL1ySujrTosIorI0o6wVDKPTQHFQ33bBtASFB5vec74fBGGSBDJHc/s1600/jim+carrey+dead+pool+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyr7wA1ZLwNQ0n_kNJCqHk4wGkCUr6r187WSLewThxByCW_cb6VKeTqvu2U3Qb7ONUfWfnL0wAaDSUFjidWkABnvxtL1ySujrTosIorI0o6wVDKPTQHFQ33bBtASFB5vec74fBGGSBDJHc/s640/jim+carrey+dead+pool+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">Jim Carrey in THE DEAD POOL</span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="background-color: white;">Before he became one of the highest paid actors in the business, JIM CARREY appeared in two 1980's Clint Eastwood flicks: </span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white;">THE DEAD POOL (the last Dirty Harry movie) as temperamental junkie rock star Johnny Squares (lip syncing the Guns N' Roses hit WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE) who argues with Liam Neeson's director character...  </span><br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy05l1B8zurPRiSSjEXHFnpiIpVl7hxJqr3c61w8uXhlE0IvHnF57ORv6DHjhJ-v8e6CFliBMT4DHquJpxmMiu_YETey3AzmsBwYcFCNRanpy-9NTHYjAHXleILUW6JokzNpY6yLn5A2LR/s1600/jim+carrey+dead+pool+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy05l1B8zurPRiSSjEXHFnpiIpVl7hxJqr3c61w8uXhlE0IvHnF57ORv6DHjhJ-v8e6CFliBMT4DHquJpxmMiu_YETey3AzmsBwYcFCNRanpy-9NTHYjAHXleILUW6JokzNpY6yLn5A2LR/s640/jim+carrey+dead+pool+4.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Liam Neeson and Jim Carrey in THE DEAD POOL</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN8W1NPzFlQEyLzsxEzSK1Qs4W1ZYI8UcqN4FTb2p-Ut5kEvD7ntuKqdfxbdsQLITCFOirZGw5Ps8NEZnp7L-JXYwlEk4uIHDNWy-C0FBtnvy2KtDJMCwJjq9uzBhb9P9oRvJ42E-NbwlS/s1600/jim+carrey+dead+pool+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN8W1NPzFlQEyLzsxEzSK1Qs4W1ZYI8UcqN4FTb2p-Ut5kEvD7ntuKqdfxbdsQLITCFOirZGw5Ps8NEZnp7L-JXYwlEk4uIHDNWy-C0FBtnvy2KtDJMCwJjq9uzBhb9P9oRvJ42E-NbwlS/s640/jim+carrey+dead+pool+3.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"If you ask me, this whole movie is an accident"</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj64-7cB8mONZCdQOSx16sQ9bqdPd0BLqn_iuP3yFcsiIZGIaKhx1uYMtC0cdF5WGoao3z2mgLOOB1yc9IQ67H4u5X-0NQgwLOtzD7mJcZfQ5n3KhZHM0eGwSlwTiFuQJlI1P1-NNLnQrEd/s1600/jim+carrey+pink+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj64-7cB8mONZCdQOSx16sQ9bqdPd0BLqn_iuP3yFcsiIZGIaKhx1uYMtC0cdF5WGoao3z2mgLOOB1yc9IQ67H4u5X-0NQgwLOtzD7mJcZfQ5n3KhZHM0eGwSlwTiFuQJlI1P1-NNLnQrEd/s640/jim+carrey+pink+1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jim Carrey thanklessly performs in PINK CADILLAC</td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="background-color: white;">And then Carrey played a Las Vegas lounge act in Clint Eastwood's comic adventure PINK CADILLAC, in which Clint's bounty hunter protects Bernadette Peters from white trash killers. </span><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white;">Both films that Jim Carrey appeared in were directed by Eastwood's stunt double Buddy Van Horn.  </span><br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuTLvoQWMDOBkavHxdsBrzPk65x1BUerlqkcNRXWh9b4bJsBUEsBZU4npidRcDvgp8zI_BktFQIxoBZViT-Js2qGVBBF6tI-vBKev1BnjOOt4CP-dwbUJhSSIc2T3UDOGAqZcWPW8MafrR/s1600/jim+carrey+pink+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuTLvoQWMDOBkavHxdsBrzPk65x1BUerlqkcNRXWh9b4bJsBUEsBZU4npidRcDvgp8zI_BktFQIxoBZViT-Js2qGVBBF6tI-vBKev1BnjOOt4CP-dwbUJhSSIc2T3UDOGAqZcWPW8MafrR/s640/jim+carrey+pink+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">Clint's Tommy Nowak can't believe his eyes, watching...</span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2i162c3o_1xfIrvI561uggCOiY1egANnZOKG3UV1XfI_aSk0CD6ZoRjhLlomapMRM5O8fKk704YH3JnPIs0_Re2RJiNucC9wnOBV9noMgJ7fYGSVrTt_FDbSmEk2hKMwpNXCXBEX19sUi/s1600/jim+carrey+pink+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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JIM CARREY INVADES CLINT EASTWOOD CINEMA

Jim Carrey in THE DEAD POOL Before he became one of the highest paid actors in the business, JIM CARREY appeared in two 1980's Clint...

CLINT EASTWOOD IN TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYjMa0JHnjR_UStcJ0tHV_JppyYmzsO6TIht-Y6R4Sdz01zIbh6ZUroH4XzFnTszBIaZ-bvFlIpqF_LxbQ5eub1ljps814WWv912GyQtj59vEa_HdQzbttmpyWs1MNNUxPPzZ85LB8HQn4/s1600/Trouble+With+The+Curve.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYjMa0JHnjR_UStcJ0tHV_JppyYmzsO6TIht-Y6R4Sdz01zIbh6ZUroH4XzFnTszBIaZ-bvFlIpqF_LxbQ5eub1ljps814WWv912GyQtj59vEa_HdQzbttmpyWs1MNNUxPPzZ85LB8HQn4/w640-h332/Trouble+With+The+Curve.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 2012 cast: Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman rating: ***</td></tr> </tbody></table> Okay, so Clint Eastwood’s Gus is very familiar. Take away the racism and he’s the surly yet endearing old-timer from GRAND TORINO – but this coot has a pretty good job.<br /> <br /> As a baseball scout, an aged Gus is losing his sight, but he still has a way of picking the best players: although it takes time and he doesn't need a computer. He passes this inherent talent to daughter Mickey, played by blue-eyed pixie Amy Adams, joining him on the road to help out (but what she really wants is closure from a rocky past).<br /> <br /> The best moments occur whenever Gus and Mickey sit down at random small town bleachers to figure if a new prospect lives up to his reputation. Throw in Justin Timberlake's rookie scout for a little romance, in an old-school courtship with Mickey, who, like her father, is used to going alone.<br /> <br /> This is a cozy film about baseball and especially father/daughter bonding, and the parallels between the two leads are right up front: both have to keep working (Mickey's a lawyer) or they’ll be replaced. The problem with this curve are the side characters, all either really nice or extremely rotten. And the ending piles on so much comeuppance for the jerks begging to be punished, you’ll feel the writer forcing applause from your knuckles.<br /> <br /> Yet despite the clichés, and some corny filler dialogue, this is a decent little jaunt around bases: Just don't expect a home run.

2012, amy adams, clint eastwood, drama, ed lauter, justin timberlake, road movie, sport

CLINT EASTWOOD IN TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE

year: 2012 cast: Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman rating: *** Okay, so Clint Eastwood’s Gus is very familiar. ...

J. EDGAR

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuwlhKXS2gJi6YnZ6dciu3jr1q9aBcN_kEXxYk7ZH7ocCKZeEKpboiP4a4Wa1E2DqdSWDJIAV_d54h0gK04OvYyv_15obowQ6m00SVQEDdbvZykShuWogq5vWy2qxG3ALAbkU-20VmodID/s1600/tumblr_ln5yf5y8ez1qfo293.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673960247126234498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuwlhKXS2gJi6YnZ6dciu3jr1q9aBcN_kEXxYk7ZH7ocCKZeEKpboiP4a4Wa1E2DqdSWDJIAV_d54h0gK04OvYyv_15obowQ6m00SVQEDdbvZykShuWogq5vWy2qxG3ALAbkU-20VmodID/s200/tumblr_ln5yf5y8ez1qfo293.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 138px; height: 200px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">title:</span> J. EDGAR<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">year:</span> 2011<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">cast:</span> Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts, Armie Hammer, Ken Howard<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">rating:</span> *<br /><br />Never has a movie trailer been so deceiving, teasing an epic biographical drama about the rise and fall of a powerful man with secrets that ruined him. But there’s no rise to merit a fall… or much of anything else for that matter. Leonardo DiCaprio, playing J. Edgar Hoover, bounces from one boring scene (and/or time period) to the next… displaying no qualities of a person who, although flawed and now considered a joke, did make an impact. His innovations in fingerprinting, and the climb from a snoopy young agent to the head of the F.B.I., are treated as importantly as a midnight snack. And the only revelations are that he loved his mother and was a closeted homosexual, but even these stories play out like bad soaps. Segments following taut historical situations, like the Lindbergh kidnapping, build no suspense – leading only to Hoover screwing things up: time and time again. And most of the side-characters, from biographers to politicians to fellow agents to his closest friends, are used merely as counterpoint-mouthpieces: questioning everything Hoover says just in case the audience can’t figure out each lie on their own. DiCaprio is far better here than THE AVIATOR, where he was completely miscast playing a grownup. With desperate, narrowed eyes fervently seeking purpose, he does <span style="font-style: italic;">try</span> hard... even in the fake looking old man makeup… but with a script so lacking of any personal or historical significance, it feels like he’s treading water. But the worst crime, exceeding the fact most of the dialog occurs between two people who'd never reveal these conversations, is the dull direction by Clint Eastwood, who should either retire or go back to making action movies, because this clunker has no pulse whatsoever.

biopic, clint eastwood, leonardo dicaprio, tens

J. EDGAR

title: J. EDGAR year: 2011 cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts, Armie Hammer, Ken Howard rating: * Never has a movie trailer been so d...

CLINT EASTWOOD IN SPACE COWBOYS

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_oDxImJ-GIIE1eQeAoNZKbqMg45LGGjJJV3bVXxSg2RUu46XK0ZbE8JXlF3_4_2ff9nb0fOQNCvqPcSBEMg90db2aAxdai1qAtfLpErG2WvrkAWR6NOsCWwXc8JbQ0fRGMAh0qgtwtXl4/s1600/spacecowboys.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" height="146" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5641663407132941058" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_oDxImJ-GIIE1eQeAoNZKbqMg45LGGjJJV3bVXxSg2RUu46XK0ZbE8JXlF3_4_2ff9nb0fOQNCvqPcSBEMg90db2aAxdai1qAtfLpErG2WvrkAWR6NOsCWwXc8JbQ0fRGMAh0qgtwtXl4/s200/spacecowboys.jpg" style="float: right; height: 168px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 230px;" width="200" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 2000 rating: **1/2</td></tr> </tbody></table> This film, centered on a group of tough old Air Force veterans who were overlooked as astronauts in the fifties and now given the opportunity to go to space, is so catered to an audience you’ll expect the actors to wink at the camera after each line.<br /> <br /> The premise is rather weak: a dying Russian satellite must be retrieved, which mysteriously carried a now dated guidance system designed by director Clint Eastwood’s character, a world-weary rogue sporadically described as “not as team player” except when it comes to his old team he gathers for the trip: James Garner as a laidback preacher; Donald Sutherland as a womanizing <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">rollercoaster</span> architect (the comic relief); and Tommy Lee Jones as a stunt flier, the most likable of the bunch and truly the main character.<br /> <br /> Prepare to root for the good guys... With one-dimensional jerks played by James Cromwell and William <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Devane</span>, you won’t have a choice. And while it’s <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Cliché</span> City as our heroes show their “Ripe Stuff” while training for the mission, these are the best scenes, covering over half the film and including some genuinely funny, and even touching, moments.<br /> <br /> But once they go to space, with the exception of a rather poetic conclusion (with the aid of a lyrically fitting Sinatra tune), it’s dull as watching paint dry – but some of the colors <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">aren</span>’t bad.

action, clint eastwood, donald sutherland, james garner, tommy lee jones, zeroes

CLINT EASTWOOD IN SPACE COWBOYS

year: 2000 rating: **1/2 This film, centered on a group of tough old Air Force veterans who were overlooked as astronauts in the fifties...