Clint Eastwood

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20, Jul, 2023 @5:17 PM

From The Hurt Locker to American Sniper: how Hollywood tried to tackle the Iraq war

Two decades on from the beginning of the war, a handful of films have tried various ways to show the conflict with audiences mostly choosing to stay away

Scott Tobias

17, Mar, 2023 @5:12 AM

Dirty Harry at 50: Clint Eastwood’s seminal, troubling 70s antihero

The off-the-leash cop archetype was cemented with Don Siegel’s taut, provocative thriller that neither condemns or condones extreme measures

Charles Bramesco

23, Dec, 2021 @6:26 AM

Cry Macho review – Clint Eastwood’s lone ranger bridges the generation gap

The director plays a ‘real cowboy’ who bonds with the boy he’s asked to rescue from his mother in this touching road movie

Simran Hans

13, Nov, 2021 @3:00 PM

Cry Macho review – even Clint Eastwood can’t rescue ropey western

He remains a magnetic presence, but can’t sustain interest in this dated tale, which would have us believe the 91-year-old remains a ladykiller

Peter Bradshaw

10, Nov, 2021 @11:00 AM

Cry Macho review – Clint Eastwood’s dull 70s drama evokes no tears

The director’s latest film, in which he stars as a former rodeo star who travels to Mexico to save a friend’s son, is an inert disappointment

Benjamin Lee

15, Sep, 2021 @4:30 PM

Will Cry Macho be the ultimate Clint Eastwood film?

The 90-year-old star’s next project may not be his last, but can you imagine a Clintier, more Eastwoodian title?

Stuart Heritage

05, Oct, 2020 @2:05 PM

Lennie Niehaus, longtime Clint Eastwood composer, dies aged 90

Composer for Unforgiven and The Bridges of Madison County, who Eastwood taught to swim in the army, died in California

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

02, Jun, 2020 @9:15 AM

My favourite film aged 12: Where Eagles Dare

Continuing our series in which writers revisit childhood movie passions, we find out if a war film from a pre-greenscreen era holds up in the digital age

Michael Hann

01, Apr, 2020 @8:57 AM

Clint Eastwood: electing Bloomberg would make my day

Actor breaks with Republican party to support former New York mayor in 2020

Martin Pengelly

22, Feb, 2020 @10:59 PM

Richard Jewell review – Clint Eastwood’s cautionary tale for cynical times

Eastwood’s elegant biopic about the 1996 Olympics security guard turned terror suspect resonates today