HDNET Movies will honor Clint Eastwood’s 87th birthday with a four-day event culminating in an all-day marathon of Eastwood’s movies on star director’s birthday, Wednesday, May 31st. From Sunday, May 28th through May 30th, the network will air mini-marathons of classic Eastwood movies – from The Bridges of Madison County to Tightrope, from City Heat […]
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Sully Soars!
Tom Hanks has another Oscar®-worthy role in another very entertaining movie. Clint Eastwood’s Sully tells the story we never knew about – the NTSB investigation into whether Captain Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberg made the right/only choice when he landed Castle 1549 in the Hudson River in January of 2009. All 155 souls aboard survived, but the […]
208Seconds Trailer: Sully: The IMAX Trailer!
208 seconds after takeoff, on January 15, 2009, Captain Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger landed his disabled plane on the Hudson River – saving everyone aboard. That’s the part of the story we all know. The part we don’t know is the one where, behind the headlines, an investigation was going on could destroyed his reputation and career. […]
Harmonizing Trailer: Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys!
After directing films like Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby to critical and popular success – and winning the odd Oscar® – the last thing anyone expected Clint Eastwood to do was adapt a Tony Award-winning musical about ‘60s group The Four Seasons (Big Girls Don’t Cry, Sherry, Walk Like a Man). Which was probably why […]
Trouble With The Curve Is an RBI Single Into The Gap!
Trouble With The Curve contains a lot of elements we’ve seen before: parent/child estrangement; a quirky romance; an older employee who is made to look over-the-hill; time honored methods vs. new technological advances – in short, there’s nothing much about the movie we haven’t seen in one form or another, many, many times. But sometimes, […]
A Fistful of Dollars now on Blu-ray! Michelle’s Review!
DVD/Blue_Ray Review: Hereafter Explores Afterlife Possibilities- Special Features Focus on Director Clint Eastwood
Available on DVD & DVD/Blu_Ray Digital Download Combo Pack on March 15th The synopsis for this 2010 movie tells us that it’s a story about a guy named George (Matt Damon)who is an average Joe with a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. Along the way, Joe meets up with others who […]
MOVIE REVIEW: The Unconquering Spirit of Invictus
A day that will live in history in South Africa occured on February 11, 1990 . It was the day that South African Nelson Mandela was finally released after serving 27 years in prison. Three years later, Mandela became a candidate, on behalf of the African National Congress, to run for South Africa’s […]
NEW ON DVD: Gran Torino Comes Driving onto DVD On June 9th
JUNE 9th 2009: Warner Brothers is releasing the Clint Eastwood movie Gran Torino The Widescreen Edition onto DVD, ON DEMAND and for download via cable/satellite providers and iTunes. Gran Torino marked the first return to filmmaking for venerable actor Clint Eastwood since his Oscar winning film Million Dollar Baby. I liked this movie when it […]