Last Sunday I predicted that The Dark Knight would be a big Oscar contender because there wasn't anything else that was gaining strong buzz. Fellow critics had all seen the other big Oscar contenders ...

Remember those TV spots for Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino that I mentioned in my Oscar article? Here they are. Warner Brothers recently debuted two short TV spots for Gran Torino and we have both of ...

The first time I saw the trailer for this film in a theater, the audience laughed. It portrayed a senile, furrow-browed Clint Eastwood brandishing a gun and barking at Asian people to “get off my lawn ...

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's ...

Back in 2008, I starred opposite Clint Eastwood in “Gran Torino” playing the lead Hmong role in a tale of two people transcending their differences to form an unlikely human bond. It was a historic ...

Ryan’s 9-year-old son Rory wanted to see Clint Eastwood in “Gran Torino.” “It’s rated R,” Ryan said. “Yeah,” the kid said. “But only for language and violence. I see and hear that on TV and in video ...

Bee Vang and Clint Eastwood in 'Gran Torino' (2008). Credit: Alamy Stock Photo. Bee Vang, who starred opposite Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino, says the film “mainstreamed anti-Asian racism” in the ...

Warner brings Gran Torino to Blu-ray with their standard 1080p VC-1 encode preserving the theatrical framing of 2.40:1. Eastwood has never made visually showy movies, and the stylized, muted color ...

The snarly mouthed Clint Eastwood of the 1970s comes growling back to life in "Gran Torino." In his first screen appearance since 2004’s “Million Dollar Baby,” Eastwood revives memories of some of his ...

At a time of year when we’re surrounded by ambitious, glossy movies based on much-lauded books and lavish tent-pole releases that promise more dazzle than they deliver, it’s maybe too easy to be ...