Day 3: Dirty Harry (1971)
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Day 3: Dirty Harry (1971)

Welcome back to Day 3 of our Clint Eastwood spotlight where we're talking about Dirty Harry from 1971. It's hard to imagine a more iconic role for an actor, but it's just one of many for Mr. Eastwood in his long and illustrious career. And even though it would eventually become cliched through many knockoffs and bad movies, his anti-hero renegade cop character really broke the mold here. The movie follows that title character as he tries to stop a serial killer named "Scorpio" in San Francisco. It's loosely inspired by the real life serial killer "Zodiac" (which was more…
Day 2: Play Misty For Me (1971)
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Day 2: Play Misty For Me (1971)

Welcome back for Day 2 of our Spotlight Series on Clint Eastwood! Today we'll be discussing Mr. Eastwood's directorial debut: a fascinating, eye-poppingly uncomfortable little thriller called Play Misty For Me (1971). I use the word uncomfortable, not because the acting or directing is poor, but because Jessica Walter (whom you may recognize from Arrested Development) is REALLY good at playing a woman unhinged. Her character, Evelyn Draper, calls to mind Glenn Close cooking rabbits in Fatal Attraction, and even possesses shades of the hapless Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were (guess it's a good thing K-K-K-Katie wasn't a p-p-p-psychopath). It's just...eesh.…
Day 1: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
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Day 1: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Welcome back for the second monthly Spotlight Series from ItsJustAwesome.com! This week, to honor his birthday on May 31st, we'll be reviewing 7 essential films starring everybody's favorite outlaw: the inimitable Clint Eastwood. Kicking things off in style, today we'll be discussing one of Eastwood's most iconic roles in the Sergio Leone classic, The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (1966). The Good, the Bad & the Ugly is the third, and arguably the most famous, installment in Leone's "Man with No Name" trilogy. Throughout the trilogy, Eastwood's character is never named-- he is identified only by nicknames others have given him. In…