Movie thoughts and fiction updates.
"Can you tell me what the movie Greed is really about?" asked no one ever. I'm going to be honest, I hate the title Greed for this film. A film that could have been marketed as the story of the rise and fall of a man gets limited to just the most basic of thematic… Continue reading Greed
#6 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. There's been something interesting evolving through Clint Eastwood's later career in terms of his view of authority. Going all the way back to Dirty Harry, he was looking at a series of institutions that were inept and maybe corrupt, but never malicious. Even Little Bill in Unforgiven… Continue reading Richard Jewell
#3 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. A period piece about a single mother looking for her lost son? This couldn't possibly be a Clint Eastwood film, could it? Well, if you've been paying close attention to what Eastwood's been trying to say over the previous several decades, it'd be easy to see that… Continue reading Changeling
#3 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. I don't know what it was about the early 2000s that turned Clint Eastwood's directing output around from largely middling fare to seriously fantastic filmmaking, but it honestly could be no more than him suddenly deciding to direct better scripts. He should keep doing that. What he… Continue reading Million Dollar Baby
#4 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. Give Clint Eastwood a great script for a drama, and he's going to make a great movie. He may not always be able to modify his filmmaking style appropriately to different genres, but he is very good at the slow burn drama. Written by Brian Helgeland (a… Continue reading Mystic River
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