In the grand “Gran Torino,” Clint Eastwood’s loutish Walt Kowalski is 25 years older than his Dirty Harry Callahan day-making character from “Sudden Impact,” but that threatening growl is indubitable.

Almost, because there were some signs of resistance – Ford, for example, grew some extra chest hair and restyled the Gran Torino from the ground up. A new body-on-frame layout, a Coke bottle profile, ...

We all need Dirty Harry. Even Clint Eastwood needs him ” with his “you-feel-lucky-punks” and that all-perceiving squint of moral discernment. Clint-as-Harry isn’t a man’s man; he’s a man’s man’s man, ...

Barn-found cars are cool and all, but the hard truth is that we can't save all of them. While some are indeed worth rescuing and restoring, most derelict classics are simply too expensive to be ...

"Hey, you kids, get off my lawn!" has never carried quite the resounding curmudgeon-next-door rancor as it does spewing forth from the locked-and-loaded lips of Clint Eastwood. This is one scary old ...

The ads make "Gran Torino" look like "Dirty Old Harry," but it's rather more than that. Directed by 79-year-old Clint Eastwood, who also stars, it turns into an often-funny, poignant meditation on ...

If Clint Eastwood wins his first Academy Award for acting come February, besting Sean Penn for “Milk” and Mickey Rourke for “The Wrestler” among other probable nominees, it’ll be like 1971 all over ...

For anyone who thought we would never see a Clint Eastwoodcharacter less of a social animal than the plain-spoken DirtyHarry, well, meet Walt Kowalski. He may not be so pleased to meetyou, though, or ...

Originally, the Torino was an upscale trim package for the Ford Fairlane, but gradually it overtook its sibling in popularity ...

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 ...

Nick Schenk’s Gran Torino screenplay wasn’t written with Eastwood in mind as the film’s star and director, but you’d never guess that was the case, so comfortably does the film fit the lauded ...