The bond of friendship between three Californian kids – Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler – helps them overcome the perils and pitfalls of school life. As young adults trying to figure out what to do with themselves Spencer feels driven to help others so he and Alex enlist in the military but both find it tougher than they … Read the rest
Tag: Clint Eastwood
The Gauntlet (Clint Eastwood, US, 1977)
Boozy Las Vegas cop Ben Shockley (Eastwood), gets the job of delivering prostitute Augustina ‘Gus’ Mally (Sondra Locke) to her court appearance in Phoenix. According to Ben’s boss, chief of police Blakelock (a brief but memorably repulsive character played by William Prince), it’s ‘a nothing witness for a nothing trial.’ Unsurprisingly then, Mally turns out to have a story that … Read the rest
Sully (Clint Eastwood, US, 2016)
In the immediate aftermath of a miraculous landing by a crippled aircraft in New York’s Hudson river its captain Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) finds himself acclaimed as a hero for saving the lives of all onboard. But an official investigation questions his decision to make a water landing when all their computer simulations suggest a return to the airport … Read the rest
The Birth Of A Legend
53 years ago an American television actor accepted the starring role in a low budget Italian-German-Spanish co-production of a remake of a Japanese samurai movie, at a time when the very notion of Americans acting in European movies was regarded in Hollywood as the kiss of death for their careers. How wrong they all were. Joe Leydon has a good … Read the rest
Jersey Boys (Clint Eastwood, US, 2014)
The story of how young and gifted singer Frankie Valli (John Lloyd Young), and close friends Tommy DeVito (Vincent Piazza) and Nick Massi (Michael Lomenda), three close friends from New Jersey with dubious criminal connections – along with brilliant singer-songwriter Bob Gaudio (Erich Bergen) – became the smash hit pop group The Four Seasons and the internal pressures caused by … Read the rest
American Sniper (Clint Eastwood, US, 2014)
Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper), a US Navy SEAL, finds himself torn between two families; his wife Taya (Sienna Miller) who finds herself raising their son and daughter alone and the battlefield comrades who rely on his shooting skills to protect them from a legendary enemy sniper known as Mustafa during four gruelling tours of duty in Iraq. But after an … Read the rest
