Posts Tagged ‘Clint Eastwood’
Top 15 Films of 2024 – Allen’s Picks
Normally, when I sit down to write these end of year lists, I have a fairly good understanding of where certain films will land. The top five to seven entries are usually locked into place, and it’s just a matter of sorting out the remaining…
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Film Review – John Wick: Chapter 4
The John Wick series started as a small revenge tale and has grown to become one of the definitive action franchises of the new century. Incorporating muscular hand to hand combat, gun choreography, and awe-inspiring stunts, each entry upped the ante in terms of death-defying acrobatics. Beyond…
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Episode 104 – Everything Everywhere All at Once & The Northman
For this week’s podcast, we review the creative action-comedy Everything Everywhere All at Once and Robert Eggers‘ Viking epic, The Northman. For our streaming homework, we also discuss the 1971 crime classic, Dirty Harry. Download the episode here.
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Film Review – Cry Macho
The title of Cry Macho (2021) operates as an oxymoron. “Macho” expresses the inflated, aggressive nature of masculinity – one of toughness and perseverance in the face of adversity. To “Cry” is to express feelings that have stereotypically not been associated with what it means…
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Film Review – Richard Jewell
Director Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell (2019) is often times a frustrating watch. Not only because it depicts yet another instance of injustice being inflicted on an innocent person, but in the way Eastwood and his production deconstruct the characters into one dimensional participants. Eastwood’s style…
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Film Review – American Assassin
American Assassin (2017) feels like it belongs to a bygone era. It has the makings of a Cold War spy thriller with its rebellious hero and international terrorists. We even get the luxury of the classic nuclear bomb that our protagonist must disable before the…
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Film Review – Logan
It has been seventeen years now since Hugh Jackman first sprung the adamantium claws of the titular character Logan, aka the Wolverine, from between his knuckles. When the casting choice for Bryan Singer’s X-Men (2000) was first announced Jackman initially received criticism for being both…
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Film Review – In A Valley of Violence
Silent lone gunman wandering the plains with only his horse and dog as company. An encounter with a drunken priest. Running afoul of the Marshall in a small frontier town. Gunfights and revenge. All of the cliches are present in the new Western In A Valley…
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