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Joe Don Baker, the actor who as the real-life Sheriff Buford Pusser in the 1973 vigilante film Walking Tall carried a big stick to mete out his own Tennessee brand of justice, died May 7, his family has announced. He was 89.

A cause of death was not disclosed.

Born February 12, 1936, in Groesbeck, Texas, Baker played football for North Texas State College and, upon graduating in 1959, served a two-year stint in the Army before moving to New York City to study acting at the Actor’s Studio. He would remain a lifelong member of the famed organization.

After some time performing on the New York stage – he appeared on Broadway in 1963’s Marathon ’33 and, a year later, in Blues for Mister Charlie. He then moved to Los Angeles and launched a TV and film career that included guest appearances on such series as Honey West, Gunsmoke, The Big Valley, Mission: Impossible, Lancer and The Streets of San Francisco,...

Clint Eastwood has reportedly bid his goodbye to Hollywood with last year’s directorial Juror #2. The nonagenarian filmmaker and actor has been one of the prolific creatives in Hollywood, with over forty credits as a director. He has explored a wide variety of genres, despite being known for his Westerns and war dramas.

Eastwood’s penultimate acting role came in The Mule, the 2018 crime drama based on the real-life World War II veteran, Leo Sharp. The film was a huge hit upon release, and Eastwood also served as the director for the film. Now, The Mule is reportedly on the top 10 list of popular movies on Netflix.

Clint Eastwood’s penultimate acting role tops Netflix charts seven years after release A still from The Mule | Credits: Warner Bros.

Some filmmakers are just timeless. Clint Eastwood rode into the scene with the Western TV drama Rawhide and became a global star...

"Wherever I go, the wind follows. And the wind... smells like rain."

After dropping a first look photo earlier today, the first official teaser trailer for Spider-Noir has found its way online, offering a sensational sneak peek at the upcoming Nicolas Cage-fronted series that is set to arrive on our small screens in 2026.

The synopsis reads, "Spider-Noir is a live-action series based on the Marvel comic Spider-Man Noir. Spider-Noir tells the story of an aging and down on his luck private investigator (Cage) in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero."

As per the official press release, the series will be available to watch in black and white and in color. It will debut domestically on MGM+, then launch globally on Prime Video the following day in over 240 countries and territories.

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As the format continues to gain traction, here’s our regularly-updated list of upcoming 4K Ultra HD disc releases in the UK.

Sitting alongside our list of upcoming DVD and Blu-ray releases (that you can find here), we’re also keeping a calendar for those who support the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc format. As we learn of new UK releases, we’ll add them to this list.

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When principal photography commenced on "Rooster Cogburn" in the fall of 1974, John Wayne was 68 years old and not thinking about retirement. By the end of the shoot, the star was on oxygen after contracting viral pneumonia. Almost a year later, when it came time to promote the film's theatrical release, Wayne was Mia due to the same lingering case of pneumonia -- a frightening proposition given that the longtime smoker had lost a lung to cancer a decade prior.

If Wayne wasn't well enough to do a perfunctory round of interviews, he certainly wasn't in good enough shape to shoot another movie. But the star was determined to get back in the saddle and justified his eagerness by pointing out that he was still cancer-free. Even with one lung, a persistent cough wasn't going to take down the Duke. According...

Clint Eastwood’s movies have inspired countless filmmakers and actors, but them also inspiring President Donald Trump to a policy change was not anyone’s bingo card. The President recently announced that he was planning to reopen Alcatraz prison and posted on Truth Social that he was directing the Bureau of Prisons to execute the same.

While it may seem like one more random decision from the Potus, who is notorious for random decisions, there seems to be a clear connection to how Trump got the idea. Many outlets reported that the day before Trump announced his plans for Alcatraz, PBS aired Clint Eastwood’s prison-break movie Escape from Alcatraz, which may have inspired the Potus.

Did Donald Trump announce the reopening of Alcatraz after watching Clint Eastwood’s movie? Donald Trump | Credits: YouTube/Jimmy Kimmel Live

Art may inspire life, but this level of influence was not something anyone saw coming.

Don Siegel's 1971 film "Dirty Harry" was written partly as a protest against the then-new Miranda Laws, passed by the Supreme Court decision Miranda v. Arizona in 1966. The film is about a grizzled San Francisco super-cop, Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood), on the trail of a serial killer nicknamed Scorpio (Andrew Robinson), modeled after the real-life Zodiac killer. Callahan was frustrated because he knew Scorpio was guilty, but he was using the auspices of "prisoner's rights" to flaunt the system and stay free. Callahan would need to go rogue to apprehend him. 

Perhaps because of its topicality -- but likely because of its hard-boiled tone and memorable "gruff" lead character -- "Dirty Harry" was a gigantic hit, making $36 million on a $4 million budget. The character was indelible enough to return for multiple sequels over the years, each time pushing Callahan into a scenario wherein he would need to go rogue to...

The 1971 Clint Eastwood film Dirty Harry has been released in Uhd format. It is an influential, much referenced and misquoted. It is in the vanguard of the bleaker, more violent films that Hollywood would make in the 1970s.

The director Don Siegel and Cinematographer Bruce Surtees, sometimes known as the prince of darkness for his mastery of low light filming, create a film that is visually a blend of classic Hollywood western and expressionism. Right from the start, watching the film in 4K shows detail that has not previously been seen on the TV screen. When Harry (Eastwood) finds the location that the killer Scorpio (Andy Robinson) shot from, the camera looks across the city. The zig-zagging wall atop the 52-story Bank of America Center, behind it the faraway lattice of streets and...

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At the outset of the 1970s, John Wayne, arguably the biggest movie star of the 20th century, was making reasonably profitable movies at an impressively decent clip for a man who'd lost a lung to cancer. Though he looked considerably older than he was, he felt obliged to keep making films espousing conservative values for his aging fans and, whether they liked it or not, those goddamn pot-smoking, war-protesting, bra-burning Baby Boomers.

More often than not, Wayne's 1970s movies felt old-fashioned, but the actor, now in his 60s, was willing to tweak his image in order to keep up with moviegoers' changing tastes. After Wayne turned down the lead role in Don Siegel's "Dirty Harry" (a decision he regretted), he starred in the gritty-for-him cop drama "McQ." He also allowed himself to get killed off in Mark Rydell's...

Clint Eastwood was the Man with no Name in the ‘60s, but in the ‘70s, everyone knew who Harry Callahan was. The no-nonsense cop from the Sfpd in Dirty Harry was known for his swift justice ways, which did not sit well with some of the sensibilities at the time. However, it did receive a lot of fanfare too, inspiring a bunch of cop films of a similar kind.

Eastwood was not the first actor to be approached to play Harry Callahan. The script reportedly went through several iterations before the Gran Torino star accepted the role. However, he was reportedly given multiple drafts of the script, which ranged from its original vision of a loose cannon cop to an action extravaganza much like the Fast and Furious films.

Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry almost became an over-the-top, pulpy action film Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry | Credits: Warner Bros.

The ‘70s were a tough decade,...

Clint Eastwood has been hard at work since his acting debut, with the actor-filmmaker allegedly taking retirement after last year’s Juror #2. The courtroom drama was considered to be the nonagenarian filmmaker’s final movie, but the release was criticized by many fans due to Warner Bros. allegedly wanting to bury the film.

However, the studio is seemingly trying to make it right by the filmmaker with a tribute to their working relationship of over three decades, with a remaster and Blu-ray release of three of Eastwood’s films. The films, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, and Eastwood’s most divisive film, Dirty Harry, will all be available on 4K Blu-ray on April 29.

Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry gets a 4K remaster Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales | Credits: Warner Bros.

Fans of Clint Eastwood will surely be lucky-feeling punks on April 29 as three of the legendary actor-filmmaker...

Clint Eastwood turned 52 in 1982, but, as far as American moviegoers were concerned, he'd only been a movie star for 15 years (which is when all three chapters of the "Dollars Trilogy" were theatrically released in the United States). And though his "Dirty Harry" movies were viewed as politically conservative, he was still largely viewed as a revolutionary figure in film. His Westerns were revisionist and, for the time, incredibly violent; his cop flicks were unapologetically R-rated and, with "Every Which Way But Loose" and "Any Which Way You Can," he had every kid in the country wishing they could have a beer-swilling, bird-flipping orangutan as their best friend.

Throughout his career, Clint Eastwood has taken note of what kinds of movies are connecting with viewers and sought to place his own personal spin on them. He responded to the buddy-cop phenomenon of the 1980s with the the big-budget quasi-spoof "The Rookie...

Everyone has a favorite movie star. Whether you grew up cheering on Harrison Ford as he kicked the crap out of legions of Stormtroopers or laughed when Tom Hanks danced on a massive piano, at some point or another, an actor from Tinseltown captured your attention and forced you into a theater to witness their latest big-screen escapade. Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, and Arnold Schwarzenegger all took the world by storm in their heyday and used their incredible good looks and rock star charisma to entertain the masses, often pulling in hundreds of millions of dollars simply by having their name at the top of a poster.

Still, being a Hollywood icon occasionally has its drawbacks. Often, an actor will leap into the spotlight by playing a specific character and then get stuck playing that character for the rest of their career. Here are 15 examples of such an occurrence -- and no,...

Clint Eastwood may have made his last film with Juror No.2, but he leaves behind a large legacy of incredible films. He has explored a wide variety of genres, from thrillers and comedies to war films and sports dramas. He has made several biographical films that have received immense acclaim, but he will forever be associated with the Western.

Eastwood became the cowboy of a generation when he starred in the TV show Rawhide and then in Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy. He directed several Westerns, too, exploring various themes and eras in America. However, he bid a small goodbye to the genre with his Oscar-winning revisionist take on the tropes of the genre, with Unforgiven.

Clint Eastwood said everything he needed to say about Westerns with Unforgiven Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino | Credits: Warner Bros.

Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven is legendary in so many ways. For starters, it featured incredible performances from Morgan Freeman,...

Has there ever been a more iconic big-screen presence than Clint Eastwood? I’d be hard-pressed to name one, as while others like Sean Connery, Harrison Ford, and maybe Humphrey Bogart and John Wayne – if you go old school – can compare, there’s a lot more to Eastwood than anyone else. How so? Well, while most of his contemporaries were happy just to act in their films, Eastwood became the auteur of his work, directing many of his post-The Outlaw Josey Wales vehicles. When he opted to semi-retire from screen acting, he was able to carry on as a director, and in fact, despite being well into his nineties, he’s still directing movies, with his recent Juror No 2 being a little gem.

However, when In the Line of Fire was made in 1993, Eastwood was at something of a crossroads in his career. For the thirty years prior, starting...

Uwe Boll’s The Dark Knight is now Uwe Boll’s Citizen Vigilante. It still stars Armie Hammer. A conversation with Warner Bros took place.

In a week of news revelations from around the planet, here’s one that’s going to leave you on the floor. Filmmaker Uwe Boll’s next film will not, after all, be going by the name of The Dark Knight. It’s a shocking turn in film history, and you may need to sit on a very secure stool to steady yourself.

Variety is reporting that following feedback from confused Batman fans, and also a conversation with Warner Bros, Uwe Boll is going with a different title. His next movie will now be called Citizen Vigilante. “We had a very friendly conversation with Warner Bros and decided to change our title to ‘Citizen Vigilante’ to avoid any confusion with Warners’ famous character,” Boll told the outlet.

A "Cape Fear"-esque action crime thriller hit theaters in the autumn of 1991. This film, titled "Ricochet," started as a spec script that accidentally mirrored the plot of 1962's "Cape Fear" and was initially intended as a "Dirty Harry" installment featuring Clint Eastwood. After Eastwood rejected the script for being too grim, the script changed hands until "Die Hard" screenwriter Stephen de Souza rewrote chunks of it while still retaining the original premise.

The premise in question is a violent revenge plot, where a righteous attorney is stalked by a psychopath who wants an eye or eye, ready to go to extremes to enact his nefarious plan. A month after "Ricochet" premiered, Martin Scorsese's "Cape Fear" — an official remake of the 1962 version — handled this premise with chilling brilliance, etching a visceral picture of hatred and disgust that also boasts nuance. Although "Richochet" was already lacking in meaningful thrills or stakes,...

In the 1960s, Clint Eastwood was seen as a quintessential Western actor for films and shows like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Rawhide, A Fistful of Dollars, and For a Few Dollars More. But Eastwood’s 1992 film Unforgiven, which he also directed, put the actor on the map as an iconic filmmaker. Unforgiven, which won four Oscars in 1993, will stream on Paramount+ starting April 1.

The film won Eastwood his first Best Director Academy Award and also took home the Best Picture Oscar. Eastwood was nominated for his role in the film, portraying William Munny, a gunfighter known for his history of violence, who is trying to change his ways. The late Gene Hackman took home the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Sheriff “Little” Bill Daggett.

A Box Office Smash

The film was a huge hit, earning nearly $160 million worldwide against its modest budget of $14.4 million.

John Carpenter‘s Starman will be released on SteelBook 4K Ultra HD + Digital on May 27 from Sony.

The 1984 sci-fi romance has been restored in 4K from the original camera negative with Dolby Vision Hdr and Dolby Atmos audio.

Bruce A. Evans & Raynold Gideon penned the script with uncredited revisions by Dean Riesner.

Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski) and Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark) star with Charles Martin Smith (American Graffiti), Richard Jaeckel (The Dirty Dozen), and Robert Phalen (Halloween).

Special Features:

Audio Commentary by Director John Carpenter and Actor Jeff Bridges They Came from Hollywood: Revisiting Starman Making-Of Featurette Deleted Scenes Behind-the-Scenes Time Lapses Music Video Still Gallery Theatrical Trailer

An extraterrestrial (Bridges) observing life on Earth becomes stranded near the Wisconsin farmhouse of recently widowed Jenny Hayden (Allen). The alien, otherwise known as Starman, clones the human form of Scott Hayden, Jenny’s deceased husband. Due to...

It's no accident that when you envision Clint Eastwood in his most iconic roles, it's often accompanied by a cowboy hat and the scowl that made him one of our great movie stars. He's had a prolific career across just about every genre from action movies ("Dirty Harry") to psychological thrillers ("Play Misty For Me") and even romance dramas ("The Bridges of Madison County"). But let's face it, the man has a face that was born to star in westerns.

Eastwood's hail mary casting on the western television show "Rawhide," which he describes as a fluke, opened the door for more opportunities in the industry. He didn't take many roles across his impressive eight season stretch as cattle poker Rowdy Yates, but it didn't matter because the one he did secure led to the birth of one of his most recognizable characters and some of the best spaghetti westerns ever made.

John Wayne was arguably Hollywood’s undisputed Western cowboy, known for playing tough lawmen and fearless gunfighters. From Stagecoach to Red River to Rio Grande, he represented the spirit of frontier justice, becoming the face of a genre that defined American cinema. Audiences expected him on horseback, rifle in hand, bringing order to lawless lands. But in 1952, Wayne stepped out of the Old West and into modern America’s political battlefield.

Big Jim McLain was a big departure from the films that made Wayne a star. Set in Hawaii, the film cast Wayne as a Cold War enforcer, eliminating traitors and exposing threats to national security. It was a role that aligned with his real-life politics, but it also marked a rare moment in his career. And while the film performed well at the box office, it would be more than two decades before Wayne played another modern-day officer.

Big...

British royal family news reveals that a judge has ruled that Prince Harry’s US visa application files must be made public by Tuesday, 18, 2025.

Sorry Harry, if you think the First Amendment right to free speech is bonkers—call Tyler Perry and see if his private jet can whisk you away to Portugal.

Here’s what to know about what could be Dirty Harry’s comeuppance.

Dirty Harry Must Abid By US Law

The judge in the case, Carl Nichols, announced that Harry’s disputed documents must see the light of day, while all the while Harry himself has been mum in his own defense.

Think about it: If you were innocent of a vile charge brought against you, wouldn’t you speak out to defend yourself? Just a rhetorical question.

The Washington judge decreed that Harry’s paperwork will be released with “redactions suggested by the Department of Homeland Security.

As far as Clint Eastwood's longtime fans are concerned, Inspector Harry Callahan (better known as "Dirty Harry") is dead. This isn't because the actor's most famous cop character died in his films, but because the series hasn't had a new entry since 1988. Not only did Eastwood himself officially declare that he retired Harry, but The Dead Pool was so bad it killed its franchise.

Officially speaking, the Dirty Harry films never got a proper conclusion. But on an unofficial basis, the series got the swan song fans and the character deserved as recently as 2005. However, none of the films' original cast and crew made this sequel. This is because Dirty Harry's finale is the unconnected comic book film Sin City, which did a better job at giving Harry his last hurrah than his actual final film did.

One of Sin City’s Vignettes Was Written as a Dirty Harry...

Three films from legendary filmmaker Clint Eastwood – Dirty Harry, The Outlaw Josie Wales and Pale Rider (40th anniversary), will be released for the first time on 4K Ultra HD and Digital on April 29. 2021 marked the 50th year of Clint Eastwood’s partnership with Warner Bros., which began in 1971 with the release of Dirty Harry. Over the course of his remarkable career, Eastwood, a 4-time Academy Award winner, has received a number of lifetime and career achievement honors, including the Motion Picture Academy’s Irving Thalberg Memorial Award and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Cecil B. DeMille Award. He has also garnered tributes from the Directors Guild of ... Read more...

Gene Winfield, a pioneering legend in the hot-rod world who created custom cars for numerous films and TV shows including Blade Runner, the original Star Trek series, RoboCop, Get Smart! and many others, has died. He was 97.

He died March 4, according to his obit on Legacy.com. His Winfield Custom Shop had posted on Instagram late last month that he had cancer.

Winfield’s Galileo shuttlecraft from the original 1960s ‘Star Trek’ series

Winfield was known as “The King of Kustoms,” and his most famous creations include the iconic Galileo shuttlecraft and the Jupiter 8 for Star Trek — the latter seen in the episode “Bread and Circuses” — and the “spinners” for Blade Runner, which was nominated for the Special Effects Oscar. He also built the Catmobile for TV’s Batman and gadget cars for Get Smart! and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. during the Bond-fueled spy craze of the 1960s.

Rarely has a decade been as closely tied to a film genre in pop culture as the 1980s are to ridiculous action movies. The era of Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and others of their stripe certainly blend well into the '90s, but the '80s is where the big, beefy, sweaty, machine-gun-toting hero became a staple of cinema. Of course, as with any genre, there were better and worse attempts at hitting the mark with this particular brand of action film. Titles like "The Terminator" and "First Blood" gave credibility to their respective muscular stars, eschewing the camp and absurdity for high-concept sci-fi and gritty political character drama, respectively. But then there were the less artistically sophisticated films -- features like Schwarzenegger's "Commando" and Stallone's "Cobra," which came out back-to-back in 1985 and 1986.

"Cobra," specifically, has become something of a cult classic, in large part because of its cartoonish protagonist.

By 1993, Sylvester Stallone's career was in a precarious place. The "Rocky" and "Rambo" star hadn't yet reached the stage where he could be described as washed up — a point he arguably reached by the early 2000s before reviving his career with the excellent "Rocky Balboa." But the early '90s were a tricky time for Stallone. His last "Rambo" movie, 1988's "Rambo III" had failed to make as much as its predecessor and his last "Rocky" movie, 1990's "Rocky V" was a historic low point for the franchise that originally made Sly a star. Once Arnold Schwarzenegger tricked Stallone into starring in the 1992 flop "Stop! Or my Mom will Shoot," the man's career was in serious jeopardy.

In 1993, however, Stallone had somewhat of a mini comeback, starting with mountain climbing action thriller "Cliffhanger," which was not only a commercial success but managed to impress enough critics that it seemed...

Although long-running franchises have become a seemingly permanent part of our current cinematic landscape, there's an argument to be made that even the most consistently high-quality series are subject to diminishing returns. The question of whether a sequel can match or surpass an original is still a topic of debate, and it's one that reaches all the way back to an era when sequels were hardly as common as they are now. While the debate makes sense on the surface — after all, on paper, how can any sequel be as fresh and unique as an original? — it's perhaps based on the wrong question. Maybe, despite all the constant franchise rankings and the like, we shouldn't be asking whether a sequel surpasses its predecessor, but rather what new depths and richness are brought to the material that enhances the franchise as a whole.

It's through that lens that I view 1975's "French Connection II,...

It goes without saying that Dirty Harryis one of Clint Eastwood's most defining films and that it's an irreplaceable classic of the crime genre. Even to this day, the influence of San Francisco Police Department (Sfpd) Inspector Harry Callahan's (better known as "Dirty Harry") cinematic debut can still be felt. Dirty Harry himself has become something of a cliché. The same, however, can't be said for his sequels.

Much like any hit action film made in the '70s, Dirty Harry was a victim of its own success, as proven by its four sequels of varying qualities, inconsistent reception and diminishing returns. While this applies to weaker installments like the buddy-cop The Enforcer or the ludicrous The Dead Pool, the series' second installment — Magnum Force — is unfairly dragged down by association. This is unfortunate, since Dirty Harry's first sequel is arguably much better than the original.

Magnum Force...

Fans of the legendary Clint Eastwood are in for a treat next month when three of his most iconic movies arrive on 4K Ultra HD and Digital for the first time. The releases mark the 54-year partnership between the multi-time Academy Award-winning veteran filmmaker and Warner Bros.

Eastwood's Dirty Harry,The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Pale Riderwill be released on 4K Ultra HD and Digital on April 29.Directed by Don Siegel from a screenplay by Harry Julian Fink, R.M. Fink, and Dean Riesner, based on a story by the Finks, the fan-favorite Dirty Harry debuted in 1971, starring Eastwood as the titular detective Harry Callahan, who is assigned to pay extortion money to a serial murderer. "The payoff goes wrong. Now, with the life of a 14-year-old girl at stake, Callahan refuses to allow anything--including the law--to keep him from stopping the killer."

April'sDirty Harry4K Uhd contains special features,...

The great filmmaker Clint Eastwood turns 95 this year, and while he's spry and intelligent, it's hard to imagine anyone making many more films at that age. Fortunately, some of his earlier masterpieces are getting new 4K remasters and being released in immaculate form. Celebrating more than 50 years of his partnership with Warner Bros., which began in 1971 with the release of Dirty Harry, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is releasing three of Eastwood's best films in 4K Uhd with meticulous special features. The four-time Academy Award winner looks better than ever in these new releases of Dirty Harry, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Pale Rider. Learn more about the releases and their epic special features below. They'll be released on April 29.

'Dirty Harry' (1971)

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An actor whose bravado has graced the silver screen for decades, Clint Eastwood is best known for his tough and apathetic characters. His roles became the archetype for cinematic heroes of the 60s and 70s, shaping an entire generation's understanding of heroism. However, in The Beguiled, Eastwood takes on a role that defies his usual tough-guy persona for something more vulnerable and exposed.

Set against the backdrop of the Civil War, The Beguiled is a psychological thriller that follows Eastwood’s John McBurney, a wounded Union soldier who finds refuge at a girls’ boarding school in Mississippi. Contrary to traditional war films, The Beguiled is a feministic exploration of power dynamics between soldiers and the women left behind. Through isolation and desire, the film explores how vulnerability and manipulation shape the struggle for survival.

The Beguiled Is an Atypical Exploration of Gender Dynamics

The Beguiled isn’t your typical Civil War film.

You’ve got to ask yourself one question: “Do I feel lucky?” Well, do ya, punk?

You should, because Dirty Harry is coming to 4K Ultra HD + Digital in standard and limited edition SteelBook packaging on April 29 from Warner Bros.

Inspired by the true crimes of the Zodiac Killer, the 1971 action-thriller classic has been newly restored in 4K with Hdr and Dolby Atmos TrueHD sound.

Over four hours of special features are included:

Audio Commentary by Film Historian Richard Schickel Generations and Dirty Harry (new) Lensing Justice: The Cinematography of Dirty Harry (new) Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy – Fighting for Justice Interview Gallery: Patricia Clarkson, Joel Cox, Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Evan Kim, John Milius, Ted Post, Andy Robinson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Urich Dirty Harry’s Way Dirty Harry: The Original

Dirty Harry is the first...

John Wayne won his first and only Academy Award for his memorable performance as cantankerous lawman Rooster Cogburn in True Grit. The 1969 Western marked Wayne’s last triumph within the genre, which he had virtually dominated since his star-making role in the 1939 Western film Stagecoach.

In the early 1970s, Wayne’s box-office standing was being threatened by the advance of a younger generation of Hollywood leading men, led by Clint Eastwood, whose rise to superstardom coincided with Wayne’s commercial decline. Wayne hastened this transition by turning down the titular starring role in the 1971 action thriller film Dirty Harry, which enabled Eastwood to transcend the international stardom he’d gained from Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy film series and become Hollywood’s foremost action star.

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Clint Eastwood has been known for his gritty, small-budget, and dramatic films that contend with themes ranging from war to sports to thrillers. As the Hollywood tough guy, Eastwood has established a career in film as the hero of Spaghetti Westerns before moving on to macho action hero. But in his third act as a director, Eastwood truly found greatness and a legacy to contend with.

Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino (2008) [Credit: Warner Bros.]

With 11 Oscar nominations to his name, the Dirty Harry actor has one too many movies to define him as a filmmaker. Among his numerous notable works, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven, and Letters from Iwo Jima stand out as exceptional works of art. However, no film other than Gran Torino has been able to break down one truly defining barrier in Hollywood.

Clint Eastwood delivers a masterclass with Gran Torino Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino (2008) [Credit: Warner Bros.]

In his career spanning 60 years,...

We’ve got some sad news this morning, with it revealed that the legendary R&b singer Roberta Flack has passed away at 88 years old. The singer fought a long battle with Als and has been retired since 2022. Flack had a series of number-one hits on the Billboard Top 40, with “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” and the iconic “Killing Me Softy With His Song.” That last song received new life in the nineties when it was covered by The Fugees.

Flack was seen as one of the pioneers of the “quiet storm” genre of R&b which dominated radio throughout much of the seventies. Basically, the genre mixed smooth, jazz-flavoured grooves with R&B, and Flack was among it’s most prolific stars. The genre fell out of favor in the mid-eighties, but Flack remained much in demand. In the mid-eighties, she...

Clint Eastwoodis one of the most renowned and notable names in Hollywood today. He first made a name for himself in Westerns and action flicks such as the Dirty Harry films, and the Dollars trilogy, and from there his career flourished to new and exciting heights. His prowess as an actor and familiarity on sets, also gave him an itch to try his hand at directing and producing, and he eventually pivoted in that direction in the later half of his career. So much so, in fact, that he almost retired from acting entirely, and would have had the film Million Dollar Baby not come to him when it did.

Fans of Clint Eastwood, do you feel lucky? Well, do ya? Because Blu-ray.com is now reporting that the classics from the cinema icon are getting the 4K treatment as Dirty Harry, Pale Rider and The Outlaw Josey Wales have been announced to be released on ultra-hd Blu-ray from Warner Bros. The studio has now made the new physical media incarnations available for pre-order. All three releases are scheduled to hit retailers on April 15.

The description for Dirty Harry reads,

“In the year 1971, San Francisco faces the terror of a maniac known as Scorpio- who snipes innocent victims and demands ransom through notes left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Harry Callahan (known as Dirty Harry by his peers through his reputation handling homicidal cases) is assigned to the case along with his newest partner Inspector Chico Gonzalez to track down Scorpio and stop him. Using humiliation and cat...

It’s hard to imagine that Alan Ritchson so seamlessly fit into the Reacher role — so much so that he pushed aside one of the biggest stars on the planet, Tom Cruise. Before starring in the Prime Video adaptation of Lee Child’s uber-popular book series, the behemoth of a man with the voice of an angel was best known as “Young Scully,” and the cult hit Blue Mountain State.

Now, in his third outing as Jack Reacher, Ritchson remains in the role, relentlessly entertaining. He continues to possess pitch-perfect comic delivery with an edge that creator Nick Santora knows is essential to the series’ success.

It’s like watching Dirty Harry on steroids, combined with the deductive reasoning of Agatha Christie — without the need to fill the air with exhausting explanations. Reacher’s third season is about the baddest man on television with a code since Omar Little.

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Clint Eastwood, ever heard of him? Of course you have … though maybe not around these parts. Whether he’s on screen, behind the camera, or, hell, even both, the two-time Oscar winner is best known for grounded dramas, cutting-edge westerns, crime thrillers, left-of-the-dial comedies, biopics, and the list goes on. But Horror? Short of his bit parts in The Witches and Revenge of the Creature, you’d have to bend the tenets of the genre to make it work.

The most malleable of his films to the Horror genre is his directorial debut: 1971’s Play Misty for Me. Written by Jo Heims and Dean Riesner, the taut thriller pre-dates the “-from hell” subgenre (think: Fatal Attraction) by nearly two decades. It’s also a better movie than most of them. Eastwood not only proves to be the lean and mean director we know and respect today from the get-go, but...

Clint Eastwood andBurt Reynolds were the bonafide male cinema superstars in the ‘70s. Eastwood was the imposing straight-shooter of the Dirty Harry franchise, while Reynolds had the laid-back Southern charm unafraid of dangerous stunts in Smokey and the Bandit and Hooper. The two stars who shared a friendly rivalry at the box office eventually paired up for their only picture: City Heat.

Warner Bros. has released 31 full-length feature films across the company’s YouTube channels, per Variety. Of the 31 films, one is 1984’s action-crime-comedy City Heat. The movie stars cinema icons Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds and is available to stream in its entirety on Warner Bros. Classics YouTube channel.City Heat also stars Jane Alexander (The Ring), Madeline Kahn (Clue), Richard Roundtree, and Robert Davi.

Released on Dec. 7, 1984, City Heat earned $38.3 million against a budget of $25 million. The film was directed by Richard Benjamin and written by Blake Edwards and Joseph Stinson.

The official description of City Heat reads: “When a hotshot cop and a wise-guy detective get together, the heat is on! Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds star as a by-the-book police lieutenant and a fast-talking private detective in Depression-era Kansas City who must work together to unravel a knot of underworld extortion, kidnapping and murder in City Heat. Once partners,...

All eyes in the sports world are on the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles this weekend, as Patrick Mahomes tries to lead his team to its third consecutive Super Bowl victory. But while the NFL’s first “three-peat” would be a sports moment for the history books, Super Bowl weekend is also a major event for the entertainment world — no matter how little you might care about football. From Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show to the slew of blockbuster trailers that will inevitably drop, the film, TV, and music industries all converge for the most-viewed event of the year. And the exorbitantly expensive commercials are sure to feature plenty of Hollywood talent on both sides of the camera.

What is it like to direct Super Bowl commercials in your spare time between movies? Speaking to the Playhouse Post, a newsletter associated with the soon-to-be-reopening Southampton Playhouse from Artistic Director...

The film noir genre is a timeless genre that initially emerged on the silver screen during the 1930s and reached its peak of popularity during the 1940s and 1950s and is defined as the glory days of classic noir. During the 1960s, the genre was revitalized and became known as the subgenre, neo-noir or, in other words, "new" noir, and was established by box office hits such as Cape Fear, Chinatown, and Dirty Harry.

Longlegs star Nicolas Cage voiced the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man Noir in the animated feature Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and we’re going to have the chance to watch him play the character in live-action in the upcoming MGM+ and Prime Video series that’s going by the title Spider-Noir. That show is currently in production, and today, Deadline revealed that the recurring cast includes Amy Aquino (Bosch) and Andrew Robinson (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)!

I’m especially excited to hear that Andrew Robinson is involved with this show, because he has been largely absent from our screens for way too long. The character actors has racked up over 100 credits over the course of a career that stretches back to 1969, with Dirty Harry, Mask, Cobra, Hellraiser, Shoot to Kill, Child’s Play 3, Trancers III, Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings, and The Puppet Masters being among the many movies you might have seen him in.

Exclusive: Amy Aquino (Bosch) and Andrew Robinson (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) to round out the recurring cast of Spider-Noir, the upcoming MGM+ and Prime Video live-action series based on the Marvel comic of the same name. Character details are under wraps.

From executive producers/co-showrunners Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot and Sony Pictures TV, Spider-Noir tells the story of an aging and down-on-his-luck private investigator (Nicolas Cage) in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero.

The series also stars Nicolas Cage, Lamorne Morris, Brendan Gleeson, Abraham Popoola, Li Jun Li and Jack Huston. The guest star cast includes Lukas Haas, Cameron Britton, Cary Christopher, Michael Kostroff, Scott MacArthur, Joe Massingill, Whitney Rice, Amanda Schull, and Andrew Caldwell.

Spider-Noir is produced by Sony Pictures Television exclusively for MGM+ and Prime Video. Harry Bradbeer is set to direct,...

Western movies have seen a variety of talented actors build their careers through roles as cowboys, lawmen, and bounty hunters, but few have commanded the genre as well as Clint Eastwood. Building up an image as a gritty, self-reliant, and morally grey antihero, the actor/director has left as strong an impression behind the camera as in front. The image he established in the Western genre was so strong and beloved that it followed him through other genres, such as action, thriller, and drama.

Clint Eastwood's leadership of the Western genre throughout the latter half of the 20th century defined his career, rarely turning in a bad movie. As great as roles like Dirty Harry may be, the actor has always been at his best in the Old West -- and some films are a stronger testament to this than others. Ranging from performances as bounty hunters to vengeful spirits,...

When you think of "Dirty Harry," you most likely think of the seminal 1971 action thriller and not of the four official "Dirty Harry" films that came in its wake (five if you count 2008's "Gran Torino"). The original film remains one of the best action movies, and arguably best films, of the 20th Century, somehow appealing to our base appetite for all-out action while also presenting a nuanced portrayal of its problematic protagonist. Is Harry Callahan merely a walking advertisement for the efficacy of police brutality, or someone hampered in his pursuit of justice by a society that cares more about bureaucracy than actually catching the bad guy? It's not entirely clear in Don Siegel's film, which is part of the reason why it endures to this day.

But for better or worse, Eastwood did make a heck of a lot of follow-ups to "Dirty Harry" — a controversial film...

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure fans have something special to look forward to starting in September. The popular manga series is known for producing gorgeous artwork by Hirohiko Araki that looks like it belongs in an art museum, and now, it's about to achieve just that in one particular museum in Northern California.

JoJo's increasingly mainstream popularity will see the franchise be on display at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco this year. In an official press release, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco announced a new "Art of Manga" exhibit that will run from Sept. 27, 2025, to Jan. 25, 2026. The press release goes on to reveal that the exhibit will feature official artwork from several popular manga artists, including Eiichiro Oda (One Piece), Rumiko Takahashi (Inuyasha) and of course, Hirohiko Araki. Moreover, the exhibit is making history by being the first in America to explore the various manga art...

Before 1984, the landscape of the cop movie genre was driven by the DNA of Dirty Harry and The French Connection. These pictures were full of hardened detectives who solved their crimes with big guns and an undercurrent of anger against the justice system. When Eddie Murphy entered the scene with Beverly Hills Cop, he would forever change the genre while getting elevated to superstar status worldwide.