Tag: Eastwood
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For a Brief Moment, Clint Eastwood Could Have Been Batman
Clint Eastwood has played more iconic characters than nearly any other actor in film history. While his role as the enigmatic “Man With No Name” in Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is perhaps his most iconic, Eastwood also directed himself in…
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Clint Eastwood’s Failed 2021 Awards Contender Found A New Audience On Netflix
As (in)famous as Clint Eastwood is for playing reticent gun-slingers and starring in violent conservative fantasies, he’s spent nearly as much of his career making films that warn against the dangers of machismo and letting your sons grow up to be cowboys. His 2021 directorial effort, “Cry Macho” was polite if decidedly lukewarm. Read full…
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Juror No. 2 Cast, Plot, Director, And More Info
Move over, “Jury Duty,” there’s another twist-filled jury story in town. This time it’s “Juror No. 2,” the upcoming movie from veteran filmmaker Clint Eastwood. Eastwood is in his 90s now, but age hasn’t stopped the prolific actor-turned-filmmaker from working on new stories to bring to the silver screen. Though the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike means…
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Why Does Clint Eastwood Seem To Only Direct True Stories Now?
In the vast history of Hollywood and the filmmaking medium as a whole, there is no career quite as illustrious and seismic as Clint Eastwood’s. The actor-director has been a mainstay in cinema for roughly seven decades. Before the SAG-AFTRA strike, he was in production for what is believed to be his final film, Juror…
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Move Over ‘Unforgiven,’ This is the Best ‘90s Western
When you think of the Western genre, your mind immediately goes to names such as Clint Eastwood, Gary Cooper, Sergio Leone, John Wayne, and Jimmy Stewart. But, what about Sam Raimi? The filmmaker, known for The Evil Dead, Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man trilogy, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness actually directed the best 1990s…
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Clint Eastwood Called This Western “The Worst Movie Ever Made”
Clint Eastwood is an undisputed living legend in Hollywood. Over the course of nearly 70 years, Eastwood has built an award-winning array of performances and directorial efforts that only a handful of his peers have come close to. And at 93, the man is still working, with the upcoming Juror #2, which he is directing,…
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‘Unforgiven’ Could Have Had John Malkovich in the Lead Role
When bringing up the topic of Clint Eastwood’s Western films, the majority of movie fans are going to point directly to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly as the one he’ll always be remembered for. Of course, there are many others such as A Fistful of Dollars and Pale Rider, but there is one…
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Clint Eastwood’s ‘Unforgiven’ Was Remade as a Samurai Epic That Slays
There have been a lot of things said about the magnificence of Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven. Undoubtedly one of the finest Westerns in cinematic history, its influence has been so far-reaching that it gave birth to a Japanese remake in 2013 starring Ken Watanabe. Directed by Lee Sang-il, the jidaigeki reconstruction takes the spirit of the…
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Clint Eastwood Almost Returned as Dirty Harry in This Cancelled Project
One of the perennial movie stars and creative figures in Hollywood history, Clint Eastwood’s screen iconography is larger than the big screen itself. Few have captivated audiences across various genres and decades with the same passion. While he possesses more depth than this image, Eastwood will be widely remembered by general audiences as a masculine…
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This Intense Clint Eastwood Scene Paralleled His Real-Life Drama
The year was 1977, and it was a particularly interesting year in Clint Eastwood’s life. He was in the midst of a drastic image change, brought upon by his irritation with critics’ perceptions of him and his characters. The Gauntlet was filmed that same year and the result was representative of his perpetual metamorphosis. Eastwood…