The 101 Action Movie list brought me this one, which feels like a bit of a misfire to me, though it does lay the groundwork for future buddy movies. There’s an all-star cast, Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, Geoffrey Lewis, Gary Busey, Catherine Bach and George Kennedy, with some wonderful chemistry between Eastwood and Bridges, and…
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Dirty Harry (1971) – Don Siegel
“I know what you’re thinking. ‘Did he fire six shots or only five?’ Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask…
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
“You’re next! You’re NEXT!!” That immortal line screamed by Dr. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) as he runs through traffic is still chilling 56 years on. The 101 Sci-Fi movies brought me to the utlimate tale of conformity versus indiviualism today with the 1956 classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Directed by Don Siegel, who…
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
Clint Eastwood returns as the Man With No Name (though this time his name is Blondie) in Sergio Leone’s The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, a film which may be one of the greatest westerns of all time, not to mention a rip-roaring action-adventure. Building on the style, and pacing he created in the…
For A Few Dollars More (1965)
Clint Eastwood returns as The Man With No Name (although the name of his character in this film is revealed as Manco) in Sergio Leone’s follow-up to Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More. Joining Clilnt in Spain for this shoot was fellow American Lee Van Cleef as Colonel Douglas Mortimer. The two men are competing…
Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Clint Eastwood. No matter what other films he makes, or made, He will be the man who will be forever remembered for revitalizing the Western genre, not once but twice. The second time, is my all time favorite western, Unforgiven (1992), and the first was a small low-budget film shot in Spain, known in…
The Expendables 2 (2012)
Things got explosive, thunderous, and extremely over-the-top at the Scotiabank Theater last night for a red carpet premiere of The Expendables 2, featuring two of the cast, Randy Couture and Terry Crews (who is currently appearing on the brilliant show The Newsroom in case you still aren’t watching it). If you saw and loved the first…
Firefox (1982)
I’m not a fan of remakes, but if there was one that I would get behind, it would be Firefox. Directed by Clint Eastwood, this was one of the first grown-up movies I got to see on my own. For that there will always be a happy memory of this movie in my head, I…
The Moment
My friend from The Matinee, Ryan McNeil and I, were talking today about films that impacted us, made us realize there was more to them than we’d realized. He was talking about The Moment. It happens to every cinephile. There’s a moment when you realize that there’s more to movies than what s up there…
The Mind Reels 