But until “Gran Torino” starts rumbling headlong toward its tone-deaf, self-serious ending — the script is by Nick Schenk — it’s often enjoyable, satisfying and funny.

As 2008 comes to close—and with it many things— Gran Torino captures the zeitgeist as eloquently as anything possibly could.

The "Gran Torino" trailer features plenty of Clint Eastwood waving guns around and growling tough-guy one liners -- basically, the kind of behavior that kept him tops with fans but an also-ran for ...

Word has it that "Gran Torino" is Clint Eastwood's last turn on the big screen; he plans to stay behind the camera from here on out. Assuming that's true, it's hard to imagine a better final note ...

Eastwood doesn’t have one in “Gran Torino,” whose title refers to the 1972 beauty, manufactured a year after Eastwood made “Dirty Harry,” hidden away in the protagonist’s Detroit garage.

Clint Eastwood will next direct and star in “Gran Torino” for Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures. Pic is skedded for a December release. “Torino” marks the first time Eastwood has ...

In 2008, "Gran Torino" became the first major U.S. film to feature Hmong American actors. Among them was Bee Vang, then a 15-year-old newcomer who portrayed Thao Lor, a neighbor to Clint Eastwood ...

I expect Gran Torino (2008) will be included among his better works but consider younger generations that have never seen Dirty Harry, Josey Wales or “the Man with No Name” in action.

'Gran Torino' drinking scene makes actor's day Published: Dec. 19, 2008, 2:23 a.m. By Jeff Rauschert | Flint Journal Ed Bradley ...