Clint Eastwood

J Edgar

Clint Eastwood's biopic of the legendary FBI chief is well-acted but unfocused

5 Jan 2012

(15) 137min Clint Eastwood’s biopic on former FBI head J Edgar Hoover offers an askew perspective on American history that eventually buckles under the weight of its own misguided ambition. Written by Dustin Lance Black (who won an Oscar for his…

Clint Eastwood's unease at being older father

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29 Jan 2011

Clint Eastwood feels "ridiculous" when he goes to watch his teenage daughter play sports. The 80-year-old actor-turned-director - who has seven children with five women, including 14-year-old Morgan with current wife Dina Ruiz - thinks he is now a…

Hereafter - A load of sentimental hogwash despite strong Matt Damon performance

Clint Eastwood-directed, Peter Morgan-written intertwining tale

18 Jan 2011

(12A) 129min Matt Damon brings his earnest charm to bear as George Lonegan, a shy medium whose gift for contacting the dead destroys any chance of romance. After his relationship flops with Melanie (Bryce Dallas Howard) and he’s made redundant from…

Invictus

1 Feb 2010

(12A) 133min ‘Rugby is’ as Oscar Wilde noted on behalf of the sane and humane ‘a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the centre of the city.’ Clint Eastwood’s new film Invictus not only invites the bullies back within the city walls but…

Where Eagles Dare/The Bridge of Remagen

19 Aug 2009

Fans of great war movies shouldn’t miss this great Sunday double bill which has been programmed to coincide with the release of Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (see review). Brian G Hutton’s familiar but still brilliant 1968 men-on-a-mission epic…

Gran Torino

19 Feb 2009

(15) 116min DRAMA/THRILLER Clint Eastwood attempts a light-hearted reproach to some of the more reactionary values of his previous films in this, his acting swansong. Recently bereaved Walt Kowalski (Eastwood) lives in a Michigan…

Missing in action - Angelina Jolie interview

27 Nov 2008

Playing the real-life mother of a missing child in Clint Eastwood’s latest film was an emotionally fraught experience for Angelina Jolie, she tells Rob Carnevale

Changeling

27 Nov 2008

CRIME/DRAMA Clint Eastwood’s feel for actors doesn’t desert him in this true story of 1920’s Los Angeles featuring Angelina Jolie in a similar Oscar-baiting vein to her role as Mariane Pearl in Michael Winterbottom’s A Mighty Heart. Jolie…

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

31 Jul 2008

WESTERN (15) 180min The third part of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western ‘Dollars trilogy’ receives a new print re-release ahead of its predecessors A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More (their digital re-release comes in September). As stupid…

Indiana Jones premieres at Cannes

24 Apr 2008

The line-up for this year's Cannes Film Festival has been announced, and the most widely-anticipated premiere isn't even in competition. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will receive its first screening at the festival, with…

Letters from Iwo Jima

(15) 140min

12 Feb 2007

WAR/EPIC Clint Eastwood follows up his admirable but uneven World War II movie Flags of Our Fathers with a second, more accomplished, film looking at the battle for the Pacific island of Iwo Jima. This time the focus is on the Japanese as opposed to…