Blood Work

#37 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. Every law enforcement film Clint Eastwood made that wasn't a Dirty Harry film feels like a reaction to Dirty Harry. Blood Work feels like, "What if Harry Callahan got really old and had heart problems?" I'm actually kind of surprised this isn't an outright entry in the…

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True Crime

#29 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. Taking another contemporary literary source and adapting it to uneven results, Clint Eastwood's True Crime does some things quite well but fumbles in some of the more important aspects of the story it's trying to tell. This is the second time I've seen this, and I ended…

The Rookie

#30 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. Obviously an attempt by Warner Brothers to replicate the success of 48 Hrs. from eight years earlier and the Lethal Weapon movies, The Rookie was the price Clint Eastwood had to pay to get the funding for White Hunter Black Heart. And you know what? I think…

While the City Sleeps

#33 in my ranking of Fritz Lang's filmography. I feel like there are two opposing and competing movies within the bounds of While the City Sleeps. The first is obvious from the opening prologue where we watch a woman killed by an invader into her apartment. The second is a look at the sausage-making of…

M

#1 in my ranking of Fritz Lang's filmography. I don't think Fritz Lang or Thea von Harbou had demonstrated the artistic depth and talent to make M before 1931. I've really enjoyed many of Lang's films from the 20s, but the closest he came to something even approximately like M was the second part of…