While British writer-director Martin McDonagh, a seasoned and well-known theater director, showed incredible promise with “In Bruges” and especially 2012’s underseen “Seven Psychopaths,” it’s safe to say that his Oscar-nominated 2017 film “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri” catapulted him to a mainstream he was not overly familiar with — nor, I bet, that he really wanted to get cozy with.
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Clint Eastwood’s “The Mule” amassed a domestic total of $103 million against a budget of just $50 million. Don't be surprised by that total, it's Clint Eastwood. That's right, it proved that the 88-year-old writer-director-actor-composer was still a major attraction for moviegoers nationwide. It also helped that the movie itself was fantastic, a straight-shooting drama that could only be made by an old-school veteran of the craft.
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