Gran Torino News

The Methuen Scholarship Foundation is seeking golfers for its first-ever golf tournament and auction, which will tee off at the Merrimack Valley Golf Club on Sunday, Aug.

It's been months since the Clint Eastwood movie "Gran Torino" was released. Drew Barrymore has come and gone and dozens of other films of all shapes and sizes have wrapped in Michigan.

Now that the Oscars has expanded its Best Picture field to 10 films, things are going to get Cocoa Puffs crazy: The Hangover and Paul Blart for Best Picture; Transformers ' Megan Fox for Best Actress.

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE has added to its Oscars haul by landing another top prize at Italy's Nastri d'Argento Awards on Saturday .

Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski is consumed by grief over the death of his wife and harbours resentment towards his two sons, Mitch and Steve , who want to ship him off to a care home.

Okay, it doesn't have the same pop cultural crunch as "Make my day!" or "Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?" . But when Clint Eastwood as widowed Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski snarls the line in the new DVD release GRAN TORINO it is enough to make a bunch of young punks in his down-at-the-heels Detroit neighbourhood think twice about ...

The field for the Academy Awards Best Picture nominees will increase from five to 10 beginning in 2010, the Academy is announcing .

Gran Torino was a real treat of a movie last year with a few big holes that sadly prevented it from being seriously considered one of the top films of the year.

On a video posted on Youtube, Jamie Cullum appears in concert with Burt Bacharach, singing the latter's 1962 hit, "Make It Easy on Yourself." Cullum seems in his element - backed by a pops orchestra, his tie loosened, crooning the sentimental refrain, "Breaking up is so very hard to do," connecting dynamically with the 80-something Bacharach.

Hayao Miyazaki For bringing magic back to animation, and not just for kids. Sweet story of two sisters out in the country, and their adventures with the forest spirits.

Between the movie "Gran Torino" last weekend and today's Miller Hose Father's Day Car Show, I got to thinking about all the cars I've owned.

I looked up Father's Day on the Web and found the following information about how this grand day was started: The idea for creating a day for children to honor their fathers began in Spokane, Wash.

Panama City Beach, Fla: This coming Sunday, June 21, is an important day. It is the official start of the summer season and it is Father's Day.

Clint Eastwood and his classic car mowed down any and all competition in their path on the home video charts.

In an example of epic understatement combined with "DUH!"-ism, the American Film Institute has bestowed an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts on Clint Eastwood, for "contribution of distinction to the art of the moving image." The conferral came during commencement ceremonies for AFI's 2009 graduating class, which took place on Wednesday .

CAMDEN : Clint Eastwood returns to the screen in one of the most talked about movies of the summer, a oeGran Torinoa available starting Tuesday at HAV II.

I'm not sure if the American Film Institute knows this, but actors are accustomed to being rewarded for their bravery and courageousness in the form of golden statues, shiny objects, and engraved heavy things - by recognizing their crucial contributions to society with a printed-out, signed paper certificate, you're practically insulting them: ...

Clint Eastwood delivers a powerful performance in a oeGran Torino.a Warner Bros.

Clint Eastwood produced, directed and starred in "Gran Torino." Published June 13, 2009 at 11:52 a.m. Tags: gran torino , clint eastwood , mark metcalf Bayside resident Mark Metcalf is an actor who has worked in movies, TV and on the stage.

CLINT Eastwood scored a big late-career box office hit with "Gran Torino," his bloody saga of a retired auto worker who clashes with local immigrants.