Clint Eastwood

Eastwood directs and stars in this high-stakes drama about an elderly fella who takes on drug smuggling in his twilight years

There's no question the miraculous water landing of US Airways flight 1549 is bursting with cinematic potential. On 15th January, 2009, a passenger jet piloted by Captain Chesley Sullenberger was struck by a flock of birds shortly after…

"155" Typically Clint is doing good, straightforward, old fashioned filmmaking in his new movie Sully, whose title itself signals the mood: simplicity. The subject is an old fashioned hero, the pilot, Chesley Sullenberger, nickname…

Slow Western When he signed on to finance and star in this picture Michael Fassbender must have had in mind one of those slow-burning, lyrical westerns like Unforgiven. He might have imagined gaining some Clint Eastwood grit, too: His is…

Box-office projections predict American Sniper will overtake Mockingjay - Part 1 to become biggest film of 2014 at US box-office. Mockingjay’s domestic total since its release on 21 November stands at $335.7m. American Sniper’s stands at…

A comedy crime caper written and directed by Michael Cimino, Thunderbolt And Lightfoot is a bit of a strange beast, but also quite a delight. A light tone throughout allows the main players to have a lot of fun, even while (or even because)…

I know what you're thinking, punk. You're thinking "did he fire six shots or only five?" Now to tell you the truth I forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and…

Following the huge successes of Catch Me if You Can, The Aviator and now J. Edgar – and with a rumoured Sinatra biopic in the works – Leonardo DiCaprio may be giving Michael Sheen a run for his money as a one-man biopic powerhouse. His turn…

Open hate, repressed love At the end of Clint Eastwood’s biopic about J. Edgar Hoover (played by Leonardo DiCaprio), an aged Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer) labors into a dark bedroom full of curios and then slumps down and weeps over the…

With the release of the Coen’s modern western epic True Grit, it’s perhaps high time to take a look back at the genre’s long history and pick out some of its true classics. 1. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) The third and final…