Posts Tagged ‘Clint Eastwood’

note: I know this has been long waiting… expect the final Western Review: True Grit tomorrow people (I promise)

After Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) sees his wife and child murdered by Union soldiers he joins a Confederate Guerilla Unit.  The film rushes through the war and reaches a point where the Confederate Army has lost and their soldiers are told to turn themselves in and surrender. Josey Wales refuses to surrender.  He is then deemed an outlaw and must run for his life from the law. (more…)

After doing a couple of dirty deeds Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef) is out on the look for a man that knows about a lot of loose confederate gold.  Tuco (Eli Wallach) and Blondie (Clint Eastwood) are partners in a con and eventually decide to go opposite ways.  Tuco doesn’t like how their partnership ended and so he’s out for revenge against Blondie.  While out enacting this revenge they find out about the Confederate gold, but each only knows a part of the story as to exactly where the gold is.  Insert Angel Eyes and you have a race to the finish with each man trying to get the gold and the information while leaving the other two in the dust in the process, all while the civil wars continues to drag on. (more…)

After Nelson Mandela [Morgan Freeman] is released from prison and elected the President of South Africa he uses the upcoming Rugby World Cup to help bring his nation together and get them past the Apartheid system that was abolished only 4 years earlier. (more…)

This week the crew sit down to discuss children’s movies and Philippe Petit’s story of how he managed to walk a wire across the World Trade Center Towers in 1974. (more…)

 

 The Unnamed Movie Podcast [Episode 32 - Man on Wire] [118:38m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Andrew & Douglas decide to talk about Clint Eastwood’s Oscar Winning 1992 film, Unforgiven (more…)

 

 The Unnamed Movie Podcast [Episode 12 - Unforgiven] [133:25m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download