Directed by Michael Cimino At first glance Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges seem like an odd pair, almost as if they were shooting two entirely different movies and one day just stumbled onto the same set. Here they play a bank robber and a, well I guess a petty car thief. Part of the unexpected … Continue reading Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
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City Heat (1984)
Directed by Richard Benjamin City Heat is a total dad movie. It stars Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds, doing very much Eastwood and Reynolds things, as lawmen mowing their way through prohibition era gangsters in studio backlots. Just about the whole thing takes place at night, like many films noir, but there is something decidedly … Continue reading City Heat (1984)
The Mule (2018)
Directed by Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood's The Mule is ludicrous. Its predictability wouldn't normally be a problem were it at least a little fun, but the movie takes itself very seriously. Eastwood plays the central character, a 90 year old Earl Stone, who is at all times the moral center of the movie, which is absurd … Continue reading The Mule (2018)
Stagecoach (1939)
Directed by John Ford While it wasn't the first western, nor was it close, Stagecoach was the first modern western. Along with the introduction of what would become repeated tropes in the genre, the film was Ford's first foray into Monument Valley, the landscape he would eventually make famous, and it is what made a star … Continue reading Stagecoach (1939)
Mystic River (2003)
Directed by Clint Eastwood Mystic River tries to tell you that the past never really dies. This is a film about a working class neighborhood in Boston in which the three central characters are deeply haunted by a moment from their childhood. The story opens with this tragic memory before jumping multiple decades into the … Continue reading Mystic River (2003)
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