Clint Eastwood
On this Blindspots, Jake and Kristy discuss King of New York and A Perfect World!
As it is, Cry Macho is the type of story that Eastwood has both told and portrayed better in the past.
A one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder, in 1978, takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man’s young son home and away from his alcoholic mom.
Let’s take a look at some of the most recent home video releases: Richard Jewell (2019), Uncut Gems (2019), Hot Dog… the Movie (1984), Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970), and two Wesley Snipes films.
The story of Richard Jewell is a potent one, especially in these media-centric times we live in, where character is everything.
A security guard saves thousands of lives from an exploding bomb at the 1996 Olympics, but is unjustly vilified by the press who falsely report that he was a terrorist.
In Video Dispatches, we cover some of the newest home releases. This week: Morituri (1965), Warlock (1959), and Bronco Billy (1980).
With musical biopics typically presented as Oscar bait or actors doing an impression for empty accolades, here are 10 music biopics that are actually great.
In the latest of our Video Dispatch series, we discuss the recent home video releases The Mule, Dragged Across Concrete, and Blaze.
The Mule is a worthy callback to Clint Eastwood’s career, playing a 90-year-old drug mule that hopes to make up for his past shortcomings.
In The Mule, a 90-year-old horticulturist and WWII veteran is caught transporting $3 million worth of cocaine through Michigan for a Mexican drug cartel.
Clint Eastwood’s The 15:17 to Paris has been largely trashed by critics. However, the director’s latest film is one of the most formalistically radical films to emerge in recent memory.
Clint Eastwood is back with another tale of American heroism, but this time he’s letting the real people tell their story.
I still fondly remember the day that was subsequently christened the “Miracle on the Hudson”, when it was discovered that a plane successfully landed on the Hudson River after an incident in the air when both engines were destroyed. Amazingly, everyone on board survived. It was one of the first times I had heard of something like this happening, and I would say that most of America, if not the world, was equally spellbound.
Sometimes the right person ends up at the right place at the right time. Whether you believe in chaos or destiny, it’s moments we all recognize as miraculous, and one of those moments happened when Sully Sullenberger safely landed a commercial jet on the Hudson River. People immediately pinned an exorbitant amount of hope on the incident, and Sullenberger unwittingly became an American hero.