The trailer for the upcoming film Jersey Boys dropped onto the internet last week and it looks like Clint Eastwood has once again delivered another knockout film. Had anyone said to me in the seventies, during his heyday as Dirty Harry that Eastwood would one day be a four time Academy Award winner, twice for Best Director, two other nominations, twice the winner of the Directors Guild of America Award and many other critics’ awards I would have laughed in their face. Had they told me he would

Walking out of Requiem for a Dream (2000) and heading towards the Four Seasons Hotel to interview the actors and director, I felt dirty, in immediate need of a shower. The film did for me what much of Kubrick’s had done for me over the years, plunged me into the world depicted to the extent I could not merely watch the film, I experienced it. I knew I had just seen an important film, one that announced the enormous gifts of an exciting new director, one that contained