MOVIES: “Gran Torino” Print By SONNY BUNCH - The Washington Times - Wednesday, December 24, 2008 ...

Even for a movie set in the Detroit suburbs, “Gran Torino” has too much of a drab, listless look. (It was shot by frequent Eastwood collaborator Tom Stern.) ...

The woefully untalented co-star of Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino has resurfaced to do further damage to the popular 2008 drama.Gran Torino “mainstreamed anti-Asian racism,” Bee Vang claims ...

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 ...

"Gran Torino" is nowhere near the artistic stretch of "Changeling," Eastwood's better picture from 2008. The script (by Nick Shenk, with story help from Dave Johannson) is a bit literal-minded.

“Gran Torino” actor Bee Vang published an op-ed in NBC News’ “Think” column on Wednesday criticizing the anti-Asian slurs in the 2008 movie directed by Clint Eastwood. Playing Thao Vang ...

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.

In the film, Eastwood plays Walt Kowalski, a Korean war vet whose also a bit of a racist. Â A teenaged, Hmong immogrant tries to steal Walt’s prized possession, his 1972 Gran Torino. Â If the look ...

by Alex Billington October 24, 2008 Source: Apple We've seen an enormous amount of new trailers this week, so it couldn't be more fitting to see Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino trailer wrap up the week.