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“Stars bring a lot of memories along with them, and those memories can sometimes, at least in the first ten minutes of the movie, corrupt the story.” The above quote is from Steven Spielberg (Peter Biskend’s Easy Riders Raging Bulls) who, in more than 40 years in the business, has cast recognizable faces in virtually all of his [...]

Last year Clint Eastwood fashioned an entire film around the concept of a cranky old codger telling young punks to keep the hell offa his lawn. Unfazed by the prospect of death, which in any event couldn’t be too far away, Walt Kowalski (Eastwood) in Gran Torino was not your average tea and biscuit pensioner. He [...]

The common perception of Clint Eastwood is that of a tough, uncompromising figure in Hollywood, the kind of rugged seen-it-all type who can smite souls with his eyes and talks through gritted teeth, grousing about the foibles of a harsh, unforgiving and morally vacuous world. As an actor he is both revered and stereotyped as [...]

Clint Eastwood’s upcoming Nelson Mandela pic now has a name and a (U.S.) release date. The freshly titled Invictus (previous known as The Human Factor), is set to arrive in the U.S. in December and stars Morgan Freeman as Mandela (pictured left) and Matt Damon as rugby star Francois Pienaar, who together use the 1995 [...]

How many Clint Eastwood’s does it take to shoo a bunch of punk kids off ya front lawn? One, of course, because nobody plays a crotchety old bastard quite like Clint. In Gran Torino Eastwood’s body and acting talents merge into perfect, cantankerous cinematic unison: those squinty, wizened, seen-it-all eyes; that course, weather-beaten, battle-scarred fought-in-Korea [...]