I’m going to work really hard not to leaven this posting with my own typically arch commentary, since most days it feels like this website is a Clint Eastwood fan blog and that’s not an accusation I work too hard to dispel. I can’t NOT address that this thing is happening, but I’m going to [...]
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My Top 50 Movies Of All Time (At This Exact Point In Time.)
Posted: March 21, 2012 in Skeletons., Werewolves, Pretty Girls, Ninjas, Aliens, Clint, Westerns, Bill Murray, Awesomeness, Michael Mann, Lee Marvin, Movies (A), Movies (C), Movies (E), Movies (F), Movies (G), Movies (H), Movies (I), Movies (K), Movies (M), Movies (N), Movies (O), Movies (P), Movies (Q), Movies (R), Movies (T), Movies (U), Movies (W), Monsters, Sharks, Claudia Cardinale, Apes, Badass Old Guys, Violence, John Belushi, John Landis, Alligators, Pooping, Wolves, John Carpenter, Winter, Robert Forster, Raquel Welch, Pam Grier, Answer TracksI probably should be doing about 50 other things at this very moment, but I saw this great top-50 list today and was inspired it to immediately answer it. I made my list very, very quickly, so in plenty of ways it’s the most honest form a list like this could ever arrive in. While the numbering is fairly [...]
From The Archives: GRAN TORINO (2008).
Posted: February 1, 2012 in Badass Old Guys, Cars, Clint, Drama, Life, Movies (G), OpinionsTake my words with as big a helping of salt as you choose, since I have got to be the biggest Clint Eastwood fan this side of forty. I have found something worth remembering and studying within every entry of his directorial output, even in the ones I don’t happen to prefer, and if [...]
Clint Eastwood, as The Outlaw Josey Wales: “Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you’re not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. ‘Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That’s just the way it is.” @jonnyabomb
Invictus is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray. Let’s revisit my review, seeing as how it was pretty damn good. (So is the movie, for the record.) Sure would seem like a good year to be South Africa, cinematically speaking. First they send us the thoroughly awesome District 9, and then the legendary Clint Eastwood comes [...]
31 FLAVORS OF HORROR #20: CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954).
Posted: October 24, 2011 in 31 Flavors Of Horror, Boats, Classics, Clint, Dinosaurs, Monsters, Movies (C), Pretty Girls, Sci-FiThe Creature From The Black Lagoon is the last of the major Universal monsters. Creature From The Black Lagoon was released in 1954, over twenty years after Universal introduced Frankenstein’s Monster, his Bride, the Mummy, the Invisble Man, and Count Dracula, and over ten years later than the Wolf Man (longer if you count the [...]
Cult Classics: PUNISHER: WAR ZONE (2008).
Posted: October 4, 2011 in Action., Awesomeness, Awfulness, Badass Old Guys, Burt Reynolds, Clint, Crime, Cult Classics, Explosions, Fire, Heroes, Lee Marvin, Megaviolence, Michael Mann, Movies (P), Murder, Ninjas, Observations, Opinions, Profanity, Superheroes, ViolencePUNISHER: WAR ZONE & THE SAD STATE OF THE CINEMATIC SHIT-KICKER. So I was one of those strange people who watched Punisher: War Zone during its brief theatrical run. If you’re a fan of left-field action flicks and intentional unintentional humor, I’ll tell you it’s definitely worth that late-night rental. If you like [...]
I can’t decide whether this is clever or obnoxious. If there’s a question, it’s probably not the former.
Here’s a bunch of stuff I did over the past couple weeks. There’s not much, but you’ll like this first item, which features some heavy-duty opinionating on my part: TRAFFIC CONTROL: The Movies Of 2011. The rest is my selected commentary on recent movie news, screenings, trailers, and DVD releases. Your 2011 Academy Award Nominations. SCREENING: [...]
