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'For a Few Dollars More' Is a Rare Sequel That Is Superior to the Classic It Follows
The archetype of the spaghetti western finds its truest expression in this essential film from Sergio Leone.
12 Mar 2015
Film
2014: A Most Mediocre Year
The odds of discovering gems like Boyhood felt thinner in 2014 than they have for quite some time.
30 Dec 2014
Reviews
Clint Eastwood's Legacy of Hunters: 'American Sniper'
In American Sniper, military sharpshooter Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) comes to see that delineations among wolves, dogs, and sheep are rarely obvious.
23 Dec 2014
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In 'Magic in the Moonlight', Ideas Trump Characters
The fundamentalist atheism and myopic intellectualism of Woody Allen's latest depiction of an older man/younger woman dynamic makes it a pale imitation of his best work.
04 Dec 2014
Film
Jersey Oys: Hollywood's On-Going Problem with Musical Biopics
By shuffling the songs off to the side, Clint Eastwood does the Four Seasons and Jersey Boys a grand disservice.
19 Jun 2014
Film
To Live Is to Die: Clint Eastwood's Dangerous Oeuvre
These 20 films are a journey through the social and political conditions of America and a broader history of human violence that crowns no winners and knows no end.
11 Jul 2013
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Secrets and Lies: 'J. Edgar' Explores the Duality of Hoover and the FBI
Revealing the nature of secrets, the power they—and those who keep them—generate, and the tragedy of good intentions gone horribly awry, whether in public or private, makes J. Edgar a powerful film.
26 Feb 2012
Sports
Super Bowl XLVI: Battle of the Commercials
Which Superbowl commercials did we love? What was just a waste of our time?
06 Feb 2012
Sports
Super Bowl XLVI: Did This Year’s Show Live Up to the Hype?
Arguably the biggest sporting event of the year (sorry, Olympics!), the Super Bowl telecast is usually the highest-rated program of the year. Did this year’s show live up to the hype?
06 Feb 2012
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'All Star Western' Is at Home, Back East
In a longstanding tradition of using company-wide shakeups to offer a new and engaging visions of Jonah Hex, All Star Western offers perhaps the sincerest reboot of the entire New 52 run.
03 Oct 2011
Television
Marcia Gay Harden on Dreams, Nightmares, and Why There's No One at the Movies
Oscar-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden talks about being a godmother for a cruise ship, the supposed decline of movie theater attendance, and what it's like to work with "sexy" Clint Eastwood.
Chris Chafin
12 Jan 2010
Film
Clint Eastwood: American Icon Collection
Again in the Eastwood oeuvre, a man who thinks he's in control, and especially around women, finds out he's not quite.
04 Jun 2009
Film
Dirty Harry: Nothing Wrong with Shooting the Right People
The year Dirty Harry was released (1971) saw several demonstrations of angry cops questioning why criminals had very solid constitutional protections that often interfered with law enforcement work.
21 Apr 2009
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Changeling
There’s a touch of Arthur Miller in the way the audiences emotions are played in this story of challenging authority.
Stephen Snart
18 Feb 2009
Music
Culture: Culture and the Deejays at Joe Gibbs 1977-1979
A collection of rare 12" disco singles which extend, and in some cases enhance, the early catalogue of the brilliant Culture with guest DJ slots.
16 Dec 2008
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Gran Torino
As Gran Torino breaks down the iconic Eastwood Movie, it recalls The Searchers, another timely evocation of collective wrongheadedness and terrible legacies.
12 Dec 2008
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Changeling
A movie made with awards season in mind, Changeling offers extravagant affects and overwritten speeches.
23 Oct 2008
Film
Identities in Flux
Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York is performance art as civilization-annihilating Godzilla, whereas Eastwood's Changeling is a film that wins the stranger than fiction category, hands-down.
23 Oct 2008
Books
20 Questions: George Pelecanos
George Pelecanos takes a little time from his prolific career to contemplate with PopMatters the temptation to try out a silencer and laser sight.
03 Aug 2008
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Digital Dynamite: The 30 Best DVDs of 2007
It was the year of the behemoth box set, the multi-disc triumph that tried to give long suffering fans everything their demanding little digital hearts ever desired. Here are PopMatters' 30 picks for the best DVDs of the year.
24 Jan 2008
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The Spaghetti West
It's time the Spaghetti Western receive its rightful recognition because its serves as a vital body of work to explore the intricate workings of transnational cinema and the multifarious results from infusing commercial cinema with Left politics.
Chris Robé
13 Aug 2007
Film
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Poetic and pained, Letters from Iwo Jima is a war movie about loss and, almost worse, the anticipation of loss.
20 Dec 2006
Reviews
Inside The Actors Studio - Icons
Tuning in to see stars at their most bat-shit loony is one of the most pure forms of contemporary American entertainment, so there is a grain of merit to be found in each episode.
Matt Mazur
30 Nov 2006
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Directed by John Ford
Ford's brusque manner is well known, inspiring equal parts fear, respect, and awe among the many interviewees assembled for this look-back at his career and reputation.
06 Nov 2006
Film
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
War, the film argues, depends on lies, on myths and beliefs that could never be sustained were the experience represented or remembered explicitly.
19 Oct 2006
Film
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
With the peculiarly titled Million Dollar Baby, Clint Eastwood elicits yet another remarkable performance from a young actor.
Cynthia Fuchs
16 Dec 2004
Film
Mystic River (2003)
While the film doesn't elucidate Jimmy's own violent past, it is clear that he hasn't had misgivings until now.
Cynthia Fuchs
08 Oct 2003
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