Another Take: J. Edgar (2011)

By Jason Haskins

J. Edgar is Clint Eastwood’s newest movie and his first with Leonardo DiCaprio. When this was first announced I was more than happy because of not only the daunting task of chronicling the life of perhaps one of the most controversial political figures of our time, but because of how it was going to portray the said figure. After all is said and done, Eastwood has done a fairly good job with the subject matter, but it won’t be garnering any Oscar acceptance speeches.

J. Edgar (2011) Review

By Tanner McCullough

J. Edgar, the latest film from director Clint Eastwood and star Leonardo DiCaprio, could have used a little bit more polish on it's script.

Classic Movies: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)

By Jason Haskins

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is the third film in the Man With No Name trilogy started by director Sergio Leone in 1964. It is widely considered one of the greatest Westerns ever made—hell, one of the best films to grace screens. There is no question how influential this film was not only in terms of the genre, but composition—easily one of Leone’s finest visual films.

Classic Movies: Unforgiven (1992)

By Jason Haskins

I'm never going to forgive Clint Eastwood for this damn movie. Eastwood might have been reaching the peak of his directorial pursuits (this, of course, being pre-Million Dollar Baby era) and some thought he was going to slow down as an actor, which he had hinted towards around the time that Unforgiven came out in 1992, but Eastwood created his finest masterpiece. One that literally closed the book on the Western genre. Sure, there have been some good Westerns since including HBO's series, Deadwood, but none have come close he sheer significance of Unforgiven's drive to push new boundaries for the genre as well as undercut all of the clichés and make something so powerful.