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Posted inHome Viewing, Movies & TV

Blu-Ray Review: Eastwood’s Violent ‘High Plains Drifter’ Looks Amazing—but Where Are the Special Features?

This dark, dark 1973 Western was Clint Eastwood’s second directorial effort (after Play Misty for Me)—and man, oh man, does it contain some nasty stuff. The film works as an ode to Eastwood’s Sergio Leone spaghetti Westerns by taking the Man With No Name from those films, changing him into “The Stranger,” and giving his […]

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