Sunday 26 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: Clint Eastwood
Carnival Magic
It's absolutely out of its mind.
Hereafter
Clint Eastwood's least interesting directorial effort of the double-aughts
The Mechanic
Enjoyable work from Hollywood's go-to action guy
Cowboys & Aliens
No joke, pardner: ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ is pure popcorn entertainment.
Science Fiction
Phil Bacharach
“Cowboys & Aliens” sounds like one of those high-concept flicks for which you might expect the idea went no further than the jokey title. Think “Snakes on a Plane.”
Blackthorn
For a taste of Westerns the way they used to be, carve out a slice of time for ‘Blackthorn,’ starring Sam Shepard as a twilight-time Butch Cassidy.
The Last Hard Men / Sky Riders
While Coburn isn’t ‘Hard’ to like, some of his movies are.
Action
Rod Lott
As a recent release of a bitch-slappin' medical mystery reminded me, James Coburn is really as cool as Clint Eastwood, so I welcomed Shout! Factory’s new “Action Double Feature,” which places two of the late actor’s 1976 films on one DVD.
Enter Nowhere
And that’s just where it goes.
Thriller
Rod Lott
I haven't yet seen Cabin in the Woods, next month's much-buzzed-about horror-thriller from producer/co-writer Joss Whedon, but judging from its trailer, the initial scenes of Enter Nowhere ring of visual similarity. That’s likely where all comparisons will end.
