Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Clint Eastwood"

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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil **½ (1997, Kevin Spacey, John Cusack, Jude Law) – Classic Movie Review 1330

Director Clint Eastwood’s 1997 thriller stars Kevin Spacey, who impresses mightily as Jim Williams, an antiques dealer who shoots dead his employee Billy Hanson (Jude Law) and is on trial for murder. Williams is a self-made millionaire, art collector, […]

Jun, 15

Dirty Harry ***** (1971, Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson, Harry Guardino, John Vernon, Reni Santoni, John Larch, John Mitchum) – Classic Movie Review 1,262

Don Siegel’s 1971 police thriller film Dirty Harry is arguably Clint Eastwood’s most famous movie, and certainly one of his best films. Lalo Schifrin contributes one of his finest scores. ‘I know what you’re thinking. […]

May, 27

Pale Rider **** (1985, Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Christopher Penn, Richard Dysart) – Classic Movie Review 1,169

The 1985 American film Pale Rider is the highest-grossing Western of the 1980s, and Clint Eastwood’s only Western of the 1980s. Producer-director Clint Eastwood’s 1985 Western Pale Rider impresses with its riffs on the very similar […]

May, 02

Million Dollar Baby ***** (2004, Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman ) – Classic Movie Review 750

Director Clint Eastwood’s 2004 Oscar-winning movie Million Dollar Baby sees him also star as Frankie Dunn, a grizzled old hard-nut who owns a rundown old gym, where he scratches a living training boxers. One day […]

Jan, 25

The Bridges of Madison County **** (1995, Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Annie Corley) – Classic Movie Review 748

Get out a full bumper-sized box of tissues for star-director Clint Eastwood’s cute, bittersweet Sixties-set Brief Encounter-style 1995 romantic weepie The Bridges of Madison County. It is polished, posh and poignant, casting its spell and […]

Jan, 25

Mystic River ***** (2003, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon) – Classic Movie Review 468

Sean Penn won a well-deserved best actor Oscar as Jimmy Markum, a Boston ex-con who takes the law into his own hands when he thinks one of his childhood buddies, Dave Boyle, has murdered his teenage […]

Dec, 04

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo] ***** (1966, Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef) – Classic Movie Review 157

Wearing his same (uncleaned) poncho, Clint Eastwood again stars in the 1966 spaghetti Western film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo] as the drifter and gunslinger the Man […]

Aug, 13

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