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On iPlayer: Paint Your Wagon

May 22, 2020by Dan Meier Leave a comment

Clint Eastwood heads westward in 1969 musical Paint Your Wagon AKA Purty Harry. In a possible attempt to rebottle the success of Oklahoma!, Lerner and Loewe’s (My Fair Lady) musical […]

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Richard Jewell

January 15, 2020by Dan Meier Leave a comment

Clint Eastwood follows up last year’s The Mule with Richard Jewell in a rhyming couplet worthy of his brother, Tim Westwood. The true story of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing, Richard […]

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Jazz Odyssey: Bird

November 29, 2019by Dan Meier Leave a comment

This is a 1988 biopic of Charlie Parker (Forest Whitaker) directed by one-liner comedian and arch nemesis of Tim Westwood, Clint Eastwood. Bird fits in the Elephant Man/Gandhi category of […]

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I’ve never seen…Million Dollar Baby

April 7, 2019by Alex Chafey 1 Comment

A gnarly old boxing instructor (Clint Eastwood) is approached by an enthusiastic new fighter who’s prepared to do what it takes to make it to the top. There’s only one […]

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The Mule

February 3, 2019by Alex Chafey 1 Comment

Cinematic workhorse Clint Eastwood stars and directs as Earl, a broke horticulturalist who becomes a big-time drugs mule to make ends meet. Let’s call it Breaking Grandad. Alongside his foray […]

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Unforgiven (1992)

January 25, 2018by Alex Chafey 1 Comment

Clint Eastwood returns to the Old West, playing a former bandit seeking redemption by hunting down the man who disfigured a local prostitute, with the help of his former partner […]

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The Beguiled

July 11, 2017by Dan Meier 1 Comment

Set in rural Mississippi during the Civil War, The Beguiled finds a wounded northern soldier (Colin Farrell) taken in by the ‘Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies’. Sofia Coppola remakes this Clint Eastwood film […]

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In the Line of Fire

July 18, 2014by Alex Chafey Leave a comment

In The Line of Fire was made in 1993 but for some reason looks like it was made in the 70s. It’s about a secret service agent called Frank (Clint […]

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Jersey Boys

June 24, 2014by Dan Meier 1 Comment

The Tony-award winning musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons gets the cinematic treatment, in Clint Eastwood’s new mob movie with songs. Let’s call it The Sopranos. Jersey Boys awkwardly straddles this […]

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Blog: 5 Luckiest Saves

January 30, 2014by Alex Chafey 4 Comments

Our hero is cornered. There’s no way out. All hope is lost. Surely he has a plan? Well, usually he does, but sometimes screenwriters get their characters into such difficult […]

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