Archive for the Tag 'Clint Eastwood'

HEREAFTER – Reviewed by David

Clint Eastwood bites off a bit more than he can chew as a director with Hereafter, his somber, slow-moving drama about three disparate people’s connection to the afterlife that could basically be summed up as Crash meets The Sixth Sense.

INVICTUS – Reviewed by Will

Morgan Freeman is uniquely qualified to play Nelson Mandela. He has, during his career, already portrayed a South African, a President, and a man who has spent decades in prison. In Clint Eastwood’s latest film, Invictus, he finally gets to play all three at once, helped in large part by [...]

GRAN TORINO – Reviewed by Joyce

Gran Torino showed up on IMDB as #77 in their top 250. This accolade made me really understand that lots and lots of people really enjoy Clint Eastwood’s style of film-making. Me? Maybe not so much. This is not to say that I haven’t enjoyed some of his films. Million Dollar Baby, although maybe over-rated, [...]

CHANGELING – Reviewed by Jeremy

The way I saw it, Changeling felt like a strange love child born out of both the acting style of Angelina Jolie’s earlier works, i.e., Girl, Interrupted and a visual tale of desperate humanization that Clint Eastwood has begun to constantly barrage our theaters with. Changeling is the story of a mother whose child is [...]