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.
0 comments Friday 18 Mar 2011 | blogadmin | blu-ray, drama, movie reviews
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 [...]
4 comments Thursday 20 May 2010 | blogadmin | blu-ray, drama, movie reviews, recommendations
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, [...]
6 comments Friday 12 Jun 2009 | blogadmin | drama, movie reviews
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 [...]
1 comment Thursday 19 Feb 2009 | blogadmin | drama, movie reviews, suspense/thrillers
