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Clint Eastwood

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Sully (2016)

Sully is a fine film — a compelling, suspenseful account of a few hours in which one man, who had been responsible and brave and reliable his whole life, made the best decisions under incredible pressure and saved all "155 souls" on US Air 1549 from death. In doing

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God, Family, Country... Right? American Sniper's Troubling Anti-War Truth

So, I avoided seeing American Sniper for a few weeks because the highly politicized debate about it was so intense. I'd been given a very strong impression from certain ugly responses to the movie that it was a celebration of heroism in the Iraq War; that it glorified

Looking Elsewhere

Looking Elsewhere: January 24, 2015

I'll conclude with a few words about the American Sniper hubbub. But first, here are some of the things that caught my attention on the Wild Wild Web in the last couple of weeks...

Looking Elsewhere: September 10, 2012

Spielberg teases Lincoln; Clint Eastwood: Conservative?; Joss Whedon's Shakespeare; Steven Greydanus Sings to Babies!

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

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Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

[This review was originally published at Christianity Today.] • "Am I digging my own grave?" young Saigo wonders as he helps his fellow Japanese soldiers shovel out bunkers in the dark sand beneath Mt. Surabachi. And because we know the outcome of the Battle of Iwo Jima, we can

Million Dollar Baby (2004)

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Million Dollar Baby (2004)

[This review was originally published at Christianity Today.] Some people live lives in which their prayers are answered, their dreams fulfilled, their needs met, and their lives richly blessed. Others live lives of frustration, longing to hear God's voice, carrying excruciating burdens and struggling to maintain their belief

Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

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Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

This review was originally published at Christianity Today. • "War is hell," they say. So is war propaganda. Both of these observations are powerfully illustrated in Clint Eastwood's new film Flags of Our Fathers, which is based on James Bradley's book about the lives of

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Clint Eastwood Denies Advocating You-Know-What

I'm not going to spoil the ending to "Million Dollar Baby." But for those of you who know how it ends, and think that the film is advocating such behavior, listen to Clint Eastwood's sharp retort: In his interview with the Los Angeles Times,

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Clint Eastwood Speaks

Eastwood addresses the controversial conclusion of Million Dollar Baby... ...in this in-depth interview,

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Million Dollar Baby Joins My 2004 Top Ten

This always happens. No sooner do I turn in my Top Ten list of 2004 to meet a deadline than I suddenly discover a film that changes everything. I'm not much of a Clint Eastwood fan. I love Unforgiven, but I thought Mystic River was a vastly overrated