Sully movie with Tom Hanks as US Airways pilot Chesley Sullenberger: Clint Eastwood homage to the “noble and decent American” threatened by a “heartless government.” ‘Sully’ movie review: ‘Taut, straightforward’ drama features Clint Eastwood’s latest all-American hero When considering Sully, Clint Eastwood’s taut, straightforward account…
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‘Play Misty for Me’: Rabid fan Jessica Walter makes life terribly difficult for disc jockey Clint Eastwood. Clint Eastwood + ‘Harry Potter’ = ‘The Decline of Western Civilization’? The Packard Campus connection Besides Harry Potter (more on the bespectacled wizard further below), movies set in…
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Million Dollar Baby movie with Hilary Swank and Clint Eastwood. ‘Million Dollar Baby’ movie: Clint Eastwood contrived, overlong drama made (barely) watchable by first-rate central performance Fresh off the enthusiastically received – and insincere – Mystic River, Clint Eastwood went on to tackle the ups…
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Mother roles: Teresa Wright in The Actress, with daughter Jean Simmons and husband Spencer Tracy. Teresa Wright in the 1950s: From Marlon Brando leading lady to spinsters and mother roles in less than five years (See preceding post: “Teresa Wright vs. Samuel Goldwyn: Nasty Falling…
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‘The Lazarus Effect’ with Olivia Wilde. ‘The Lazarus Effect’ box office: Olivia Wilde and Mark Duplass horror movie arrives comatose (See previous post: “‘Focus’: Will Smith Has One of Worst Opening Weekends of His Career.”) Despite recent news that human head transplants are a mere…
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Jersey Boys with John Lloyd Young as Frankie Valli of The Four Seasons. ‘Jersey Boys’ movie review: Great music fails to save Clint Eastwood-directed film version of the 2005 Broadway musical Clint Eastwood’s semi-historically accurate biopic of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Jersey Boys,…
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Idris Elba in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Directed by and starring a couple of Englishmen, respectively Justin Chadwick and Idris Elba, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom has been indifferently received by critics and audiences in the United States, where the Nelson Mandela biopic opened…
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Clint Eastwood Western movies: The Good the Bad and the Ugly stars the former U.S. TV actor & B Hollywood flick performer as the silent, strong – and unfeeling, unwashed, cruel, violent, constipated-looking – type. Clint Eastwood Western movies’ persona co-creator dead at 87: Luciano…
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John Travolta in the Scientology-inspired movie ‘Battlefield Earth.’ From John Travolta to Bob Dylan, from Ed Wood to Orson Welles: ‘The Greatest Bad Movies of All Time’ Phil Hall’s The Greatest Bad Movies of All Time, tagged as a “new celebration of cinematic inanity,” was…
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Best Actor Oscar: Joaquin Phoenix a potential contender. 2013 Oscar predictions Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, Daniel Day-Lewis Joaquin Phoenix and Daniel Day-Lewis look like the two shoo-ins for the 2013 Best Actor Oscar at this stage. Phoenix’s nod will be for Paul Thomas Anderson’s critically…
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Clint Eastwood ‘Trouble with the Curve’: Disappointing debut Trouble with the Curve, The House at the End of the Street, End of Watch, and Dredd: four new releases, four box office disappointments as the end of summer/early fall blues at the North American box office…
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Obama movie ‘2016’ vs. Fahrenheit 9/11: Absurd comparisons Aug. 28 update: Dinesh D’Souza and John Sullivan’s right-wing documentary 2016 Obama’s America had a solid first-wide-weekend run in North America on the eve of the Republican National Convention currently being held in Tampa, Florida. (To be…