The Good, The Pod and The Ugly

Send us Fan Mail S2 E3 LETTERS FROM DIRTY HARRY We have been waiting for this match-up for months and the result is our biggest episode yet. 1971's Dirty Harry, directed by Don Donald Siegel is the problematic masterpiece that started an entire genre (maybe two!?!). Curious how its allegedly fascist leanings hold up under 2020 scrutiny? Us too! Then 2006's Letters From Iwo Jima , the onl...

Send us Fan Mail S2 E2 THE BEGUILED CHANGELING Eastwood and " Donald " " Don " Siegel team up for their third collaboration with their odd, Southern Gothic detour, 1971's The Beguiled. Then 2008's Changeling with Angelina Jolie , which is, sadly, not a remake of the 1980 horror movie The Changeling but a true crime drama that takes place in 1928 and features some spif...

Send us Fan Mail S2 E1 GRAN THEFT KELLY   Season 2 premiere! Eastwood's 2008 Cranksterpiece Gran Torino paired with 1970's Kelly's Heroes , a WWII action-comedy which reunites Clint and director Brian Hutton , who made the cool-eyed WWII action masterpiece Where Eagles Dare with Clint and Richard Burton a few years earlier. Where Eagles Dare was our favorite movie in S1! Will the fo...

Send us Fan Mail S1 E10 TWO MULES FOR SISTER INVICTUS *SEASON FINALE* For our tenth episode we finally get into the 1970s with Two Mules for Sister Sara , the second of Eastwood's five films with director Don "Donald" Siegel, co-starring the lovely Shirley MacLaine, who channeled her previous life as a deadly wasp spider in 19th century Mexico for the role. Then 2009's Invictus...

Send us Fan Mail S1 E9 PAINT YER HEREAFTER Eastwood’s HEREAFTER , 2010, which IMDB halfway accurately labels Drama/Disaster , is chock full of actors you recognize from better movies saying words in storylines about what happens after people die. Everyone who has seen Hereafter can attest death feels like watching this movie. In 1969’s PAINT YOUR WAGON , the musical (!!!) with Clint , Jean Seberg...

Send us Fan Mail S1 E8 WHERE EDGARS DARE . Clint takes a supporting role to Richard Burton in the Men on a Mission WWII action classic Where Eagles Dare, directed by Brian Hutton , from 1969. And then... Leonardo DiCaprio. Is. J. Edgar. From 2011, J. Edgar is one of Eastwood's more surprising late-career projects, quite unlike anything else we have seen so far - is that a good thing? Jack and...

Send us Fan Mail S1 E7 COOGAN'S CURVE Trouble With the Curve , from 2012, is NOT directed by Eastwood and neither is Coogan's Bluff from 1968. Coogan is directed by Don Siegel in the first of five classic collabs with Eastwood. Curve is directed by guy we had never heard of (Robert Lorenz) who is undoubtedly a talented individual! After all, he made a movie with Clint Eastwood and Amy Ad...

Send us Fan Mail S1 E6 HANG 'EM BOYS Eastwood's long-sought leading man debut in a Hollywood motion picture, Hang 'Em High , from 1968, along with his 2014 musical, Jersey Boys. Top 40 for both? Or are they both for the noose? As they say in Jersey, " Yo, those are definitely two films you are discussing. " Film scholar, screenwriter and celebrity chef Erik joins us. HANG...

Send us Fan Mail S1 E5 The Good, The Sniper and The Ugly Eastwood completes the Dollars Trilogy ( Dollar Bill, Dollar Sign ) with The Good, The Bad and The Ugly ( WE NAMED OUR PODCAST AFTER IT!!!!). We also watch his biggest box office success, Amercan Sniper , starring Cradley Booper as Johnny A. Sniper. Ken and Jack talk about both with special guest, Larry . THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY: 00:0...

Send us Fan Mail S1 E3 A  FISTFUL TO PARIS Eastwood's epic entry into superstardom in A Fistful of Dollars . Paired with it is the epic entry of three non-actors playing themselves in a 90 minute studio film called The 15:17 to Paris about that one time they did something heroic while on a sweet European vacay. Pam from the office is in it! Ken and Jack come to terms with both films in decide...

Send us Fan Mail S1 E4 FOR A FEW SULLY'S MORE Eastwood in the second of the Dollars Trilogy , ( Dollar Tree, Dollar General ), For a Few Dollars More , paired with Aaron Eckhart's mustache in Sully , a 90 minute studio film about a three minute incident on an airplane sponsored by a certain hotel chain. Ken and Jack fail to stick the landing discussing both.    FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE: 00...

Send us Fan Mail S1 E1 The Revenge of the Richard Clint Eastwood’s latest film paired with his first screen appearance! Richard Jewell and Revenge of the Creature . Parallel themes across 65 years? Fascinating behind the scenes anecdotes? Incisive commentary? Maybe, but maybe not! Ken and Jack do a deep dive on each film. REVENGE OF THE CREATURE 00:01:53 RICHARD JEWELL 00:21:03 Email: thegoodthepo...

Send us Fan Mail S1 E2 HIDE THE MULE Ken and Jack dissect Eastwood’s first appearance on the TV classic Rawhide , which made him a star, and his (probable) acting swan song in The Mule . Surprises follow as one has a donkey in it and the other one doesn’t! Just remember: Unforgiven is one of the greatest movies ever made! RAWHIDE E1: 00:03:23 THE MULE: 00:18:02 Email: thegoodthepodandtheugly@gmail...