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Marketing consultant Terry Press had her 9-year-old son Ethan in the car when she heard the news that Clint Eastwood’s ‘Gran Torino’ had made $29 million to win this past weekend’s box ...
Make my weekend. Clint Eastwood has had the best movie opening of his long and esteemed career. His " Gran Torino " revved up the winter box office with $29 million in ticket sales in its first ...
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 ...
Clint Eastwood's 1972 Ford Gran Torino is a reminder of a time when he was connected to an America that has passed him by A street full of 1950s roadsters. James Bond in an Aston Martin. Superfly ...
The title of "Gran Torino," Clint Eastwood's second movie this year (after October's "Changeling"), refers to a pristine '72 Ford that his character, Walt Kowalski, keeps polished in his garage.
In Gran Torino Eastwood returns to the solid old filmmaking virtues of one of his mentors, Don Siegel, and wittily plays around with his well-worn tough guy image.
Grand Torino is a movie about a Korean War veteran, played by Clint Eastwood who must deal with his neighbors of ethnic Hmong descent,the Lor family, whose sons are enmeshed in gang violence. Movie is ...
To think Gran Torino is a masterpiece, you have to accept the contrived setups and sledgehammer melodrama. You have to grade the movie on that same meathead-vigilante curve.
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 ...