Movie thoughts and fiction updates.
#27 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. Wow...it's been a long time since I reviewed Bird, Clint Eastwood's biopic of the jazz musician Charlie Parker. Revisiting it again for the first time in three years, I find that my overall opinion has not changed. I would say that I've added a dimensions to my… Continue reading A Second Look at Bird
#5 in my ranking of the Dirty Harry franchise. Where Sudden Impact felt like someone inelegantly added Harry Callahan to an unrelated script, The Dead Pool feels like some taking the most generic cop script in existence and changing the generic cop's name to Harry Callahan while still managing to get Clint Eastwood to reprise… Continue reading The Dead Pool
#28 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. Do you ever see a movie that feels small and effective in that small space, and then it expands ineffectively into a larger space and just kind of loses itself? That's what I feel about Heartbreak Ridge. I wasn't completely in love with the film for its… Continue reading Heartbreak Ridge
#19 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. The rumors are rife with this one that Clint Eastwood took over the directing reigns from the credited writer/director Richard Tuggle when Tuggle proved to work too slowly, much like the rumors on Magnum Force. So, I figured that I might as well check it out in… Continue reading Tightrope
#2 in my ranking of the Dirty Harry franchise. #22 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. The first Dirty Harry film where Clint Eastwood has an official directing credit (he did a bit of directing on the first one and is rumored to have shadow-directed the second when Tim Post didn't work fast enough… Continue reading Sudden Impact
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