Clint Eastwood

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…

I entered the room in trepidation. The hatred and snark the reviews unleashed upon Hereafter seemed appropriate for a Michael Bay release but not for a new movie by Clint Eastwood, one of the best American filmmakers working. Could Eastwood…

Truly great cinema is a form of emotional conjuring trick: a way of presenting sounds and images – which, by their nature, we know have been contrived to induce a certain emotional and intellectual reaction – in a way which nonetheless…

Here, and the beyond Clint Eastwood moves into new territory in several ways with Hereafter and almost fully carries it off directing a screenplay by Peter Morgan (also in a new area outside British history). It tells three tales about…