February 17, 2009
Misguided teenage boy seeks big strong father-figure to make him a man, rescue damsel in distress, and rid town of terrorizing thugs. Sound familiar? Clint Eastwood's latest film Gran Torino reimagines this archetypal American story, replacing the genteel townsfolk with Hmong immigrants and instead ...
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Melissa Hung
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January 29, 2009
If you've been following my obsessive train of thought, you may have noticed I have been watching a lot of Clint Eastwood lately. I discovered this little gem sometime around Christmas while searching for something completely unrelated to him -- and I'm finally breaking down and posting it. This is ...
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Elisabeth Rappe
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January 23, 2009
Filed under: Celebrities, Ratings, Awards, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free Do you remember what film won the Oscar for Best Picture last year? (No Country for Old Men). What about Best Actor and Actress? (Daniel Day-Lewis and Marion Cotillard). If you didn't remember, don't feel bad. You're probably li...
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Allison Waldman
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January 20, 2009
Fox 4's Shawn Edwards -- considered a "quote whore" by other critics -- won't be quoted on posters for Gran Torino. Last week, Edwards gave Clint Eastwood's latest film zero out of five popcorn bags."... Continue reading "Shawn Edwards hates a movie! "...
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Justin Kendall
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January 07, 2009
There were a number of old-school Hollywood heavy hitters at the Palm Springs Film Festival. Donald Sutherland, Dustin Hoffman and Clint Eastwood represented for the silver-haired crowd. Clint, the grizzled old bastard, showed up to accept his Career Achievement Award. Good for him. I saw him once o...
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Lisa Timmons
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December 12, 2008
Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) is a son of a bitch, and a particularly racist one at that. Having just endured his wife's funeral, Walt wants only to scowl and growl in solitude, left alone to simmer and seethe over past Korean War traumas and at the proliferation of Asian "swamp rats" and "zipperhe...
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Nick Schager
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June 07, 2008
Filed under: Celebrities and Controversy, War First, let's recap: On May 21, Eugene posted about Spike Lee's continued criticism of Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima for not including African Americans. Lee was asked why Eastwood did it as he did, and I have to say, I d...
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May 21, 2008
Filed under: Celebrities and Controversy, War At a Cannes press conference for his WWII drama The Miracle at St. Anna, controversy hog Spike Lee took some swipes at Hollywood darlings Clint Eastwood and the Coen Brothers. Talking about the way he treated death in his first war film, Lee said: "I alw...
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April 10, 2008
Filed under: Drama, Thrillers, Cinematical Seven, Lists What happens when men in blue, sworn to protect and to serve, fly out of control? If we're lucky, we get a good movie out of it. If we're really lucky, we get a larger than life character to cheer and to fear. Are you feeling lucky, punk? Keanu...
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March 25, 2008
Filed under: Wacky and Weird TMZ.com: There's no way in hell Clint Eastwood would ever appear on "Dancing with the Stars" -- but our photog randomly asked anyway. He's 77!Despite the awkward question, Eastwood was still a class act. See Also Pap Eats Major Pavement Over Clint... Read more...
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