Clint Eastwood

Cinefamily Spotlights Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

California Democratic Drunks Make a Scene at DNC in Charlotte

Props to our California delegates who made drunken fools of themselves in Charlotte even before the Democratic National Convention started there today. While Mitt Romney's prom had Clint Eastwood lecturing an empty chair in Tampa last week, the Golden State's own Dems were prepping for Obama's seco ... More >>

Clint Eastwood's Cardboard Cutout in San Rafael Hills Now Accompanied by Empty Chair

That amusing cardboard cutout of Clint Eastwood, installed by Glassell Park artist Justin Stadel on a San Rafael Hills hiking trail last spring to inspire the cowboy in all of us (and especially freeway commuters on the 2 below), is finally complete: As of this afternoon, according to NBC4, "someo ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Sex, Death and Robots

L.A. Weekly Critic J. Hoberman's Top 10 Movies of 2011

10 Movie Womanizers, From Shame to Shampoo

The movies are full of bed-hopping men -- think of Humphrey Bogart's serial flirtations in The Big Sleep (1946), and Richard Roundtree laying his way uptown and down in Shaft (1971). But in Steve McQueen's Shame, womanizing is not just an outgrowth of the plot -- it is the plot. And it's just the la ... More >>

J. Edgar Review

Clint Eastwood's inspired take on a giant of the 20th Century

If It's Tuesday, It Must Be Montrose

Hollywood Tsunami Blockbuster 'Hereafter' Pulled From Japanese Theaters; Some DVD Profits to Fund Red Cross Relief

Way, way too soon.​And the Oscar for awkwardest international release date ever goes to Clint Eastwood's "Hereafter," the glamorous, fear-profitting tsunami flick that dropped in Japan on February 19, 2011. Three weeks later, as we're now brutally aware, news cameras captured a real-live vers ... More >>

HEREAFTER

Alleged Car Thief Picked The Wrong Victim

​ This must have been quite a scene downtown: An alleged car thief messed with the wrong guy and got busted by the car's owner, who is apparently not someone to be messed with. So a 40-something guy allegedly stole a car, but the owner saw him doing it and proceeded to chase him through dow ... More >>

Malibu's Mayor Makes Waves

Jefferson (Zuma Jay) Wagner's ripple effect

THE HISTORY OF CHICO AND THE MAN

Panic, Despair and Revolution

Yet from industry turmoil, great films arose

Let the Golden Globes (and etc.) bad-mouthing begin!

Because it's awards season and there's no holiday cheer

Invictus: All's Well That Ends Well

Not much truth, but plenty of reconciliation in Clint Eastwood's South Africa

EASTWOOD ON THE PITCH

At 79, Clint tackles Mandela in Invictus

Movie Reviews: Burma VJ, Up, What Goes Up

Also, Departures, Drag Me to Hell, Dance Flick

Up with Cannes, Coppola

The best film to open the Cannes Film Festival in the seven years I've been attending, and just a lovely film all around, the Pixar studios' Up (which opens in wide release next Friday, May 29) suggests what Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino might have looked like if, instead of standing his ground, East ... More >>

GO LA: Dead Poets, Dead Writers and Denis Leary

Plus lots more to mourn and celebrate in town (not necessarily in that order), April 3-9

CLINTOPHILE

The 10 (or 17) Best Films of 2008

Coming soon to a theater, er, HDTV near you

Clint Eastwood, America's Director

The searcher

Clint Eastwood Finds Salvation in Gran Torino

Forgiven

Changeling: Go Ahead, Make Her Day

Angelina Jolie takes on a serial killer, and the system, in Clint Eastwood's latest

That's Not All, Folks: PBS Tackles The Warner Bros. Story

Brando? Check. Bogart? Check. But the American Masters segment could have used more from the studio's most successful film, The Dark Knight

Eastwood Retrospective: A Life in Film, a Week at the Aero

The beguiler

Some Alternative Cannes Awards

Che wins the only Cannes prize that really matters: ours

Controversy at Cannes: The Headless Woman

And a lot of big heads too

Charles Bronson, Sacred Monster

Cinefamily pays homage to King Charles

Clint Eastwood: The Set Whisperer

Shooting quietly on the Changeling set

The Best Films of 2006: The Year of Army of Shadows

And the First Annual L.A. Weekly Film Poll

Nothing Lost in Translation

Letters From Iwo Jima finds that war is a universal language

Clint's Last Ride?

Eastwood on his Letters From Iwo Jima

Flag Raiser

Adam Beach enters the spotlight

Print the Legend

But flag the truth

Baby, It’s Cold Inside

Oscar at 77

A Considerable Town
Baby, It’s Cold Inside

Oscar at 77 — film . . . fashion . . . warm bodies

Baby, It’s Cold Inside

Oscar at 77

Top 10, er, 12 Movies of the Year

For a Few Million More . . .

In his 24th film since Play Misty for Me, Clint Eastwood is still working on Hollywood’s longest second act

Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby

The Sound of One Hand Hacking

Zatoichi is violent, funny — and kind of Zen

Primp the Legend

Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River

Transports and Transplants

Affairs of the heart in The Good Girl and Blood Work

Glamour Guys of Geezer Gulch

The beautiful butt-ugly truth about Space Cowboys

Blow Hard

Wolfgang Petersen’s The Perfect Storm

Earthly Delights

Song and dance from around the world

Musso & Frank Grill

Nothing but a Man

Clint Eastwood mellows into the sunset