Tag Archives: Clint Eastwood
Movie Review: ‘Trouble with the Curve’
Director: Robert Lorenz | Writer: Randy Brown | Cast: Amy Adams, Clint Eastwood, John Goodman, Matthew Lillard, Joe Massingill, Justin Timberlake | Rating: PG-13 | Runtime: 111 minutes | Year (U.S. release): 2012 | Say what you want about Clint … Continue reading
Academy Cuts Best Makeup Field to Seven: ‘Iron Lady’ in, ‘J. Edgar’ Out
The Academy has recently been hard at work shaving the field of contenders over in the Best Visual Effects category — you’ll recall that the crop was initially cut to 15, and then, just last week, snipped even further to … Continue reading
National Board of Review Gives a Big Hug to Martin Scorsese’s ‘Hugo’
The National Board of Review has a thing for Clint Eastwood. Each one of the director’s films since 2002′s Blood Work has been included in the NBR’s compilation of the year’s top ten films — and now, with the inclusion … Continue reading
Oscar Predictions: ‘J. Edgar’ Opens to Intriguingly Cryptic Response
Like the film or not — and, despite some obviously confused work on the page from Dustin Lance Black, I do — I think it’s hard not to be at least somewhat interested in the mixed response that Clint Eastwood’s … Continue reading
Movie Review: ‘J. Edgar’ (2011)
In Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar, Leonardo DiCaprio gives a performance that will surprise a great many of people. His turn as J. Edgar Hoover is, by a substantial margin, his most ambitious undertaking to date, and — both impressively and … Continue reading
Oscar Predictions: Post-NYFF Assessment
Having seen a handful of films at this year’s New York Film Festival — including, among others, Steve McQueen’s Shame, Alexander Payne’s The Descendants, and Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist — I feel that my perspective of this year’s race, in … Continue reading
Trailer for Clint Eastwood’s ‘J. Edgar’
In terms of getting a glance at some kind of a trailer, Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar has been one of the year’s longest holdouts. (Still remaining, among a few others, are Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Jason … Continue reading
Oscar Predictions: Diving in Before the Festivals
Back in early March, I put together a preliminary set of Oscar predictions for the impending 2011-2012 awards season. Most of the films that made their way into my charts have still yet to be released theatrically, but trailers have … Continue reading
First-Half Contenders: Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree of Life’
While Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris — whose Oscar prospects I delved into just the other day — may be a more consensus critical favorite than The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick’s film is without a doubt the more polarizing … Continue reading
