The songs may be easy on the ears, but Clint Eastwood’s adaptation of the popular Broadway musical is not easy on the eyes.

The actor and director, last seen at the Republican National Convention berating an empty chair, appears in a new ad paid for by Karl Rove’s American Crossroads.

On the final day of the Republican National Convention, our D.C. delegate went through the media wringer, kicked it with Journey and saw Mitt Romney accept his party’s nomination for president. And then there was Clint Eastwood.

Photo by La Tur If you see cross-dressing G-men downtown this weekend, worry not. According to the D.C. Office of Motion Picture and Television Development, film crews will be in the city for the next few days filming J. Edgar. The film is directed by Clint Eastwood and features Leonardo DiCaprio as former FBI Director Hoover, as well as Naomi Watts, Josh Lucas, Arnie Hammer and Judi Dench in supporting roles. The office is…

It’s shaping up to be a rather busy weekend around the District. In addition to the first weekend of the National Cherry Blossom Festival and the National Marathon (we’ll have more on that later), there’ll be a big-time movie shoot going on. According to the D.C. Office of Motion Picture and Television Development, the Clint Eastwood-directed, Leonardo DiCaprio-starring J. Edgar Hoover biopic J. Edgar will be filming on Saturday and Sunday in “downtown D.C.”

Clint Eastwood grows more and more prolific as he gets older. Now a sprightly 80 years old, he’s setting a pace that puts even the reliable one-film-per-year Woody Allen to shame, having directed seven features in the last five years. It seems appropriate, then, that his latest, Hereafter, is actually three movies in one. That’s a lot to tackle right there, but it also contains some of the most ambitious thematic material the director has yet tackled: namely, what happens to us when we die?

Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon are great, but Eastwood’s ‘Invictus’ is less than the sum of their parts. Some movies are impervious to criticism. Their true-life stories are so inspirational, so extraordinary, so much stranger than fiction, that quibbling over the way they’ve been presented doesn’t seem to serve much purpose. Luckily for Clint Eastwood, such stories are also largely impervious to poor storytelling. His Invictus hits all the right formula notes of both…

While his star turns in Terms of Endearment and The Squid and the Whale suggested a softer side, we had no idea that the still waters of Jeff Daniels ran quite so deep. Turns out the actor has been compiling a cache of folk songs over the past 30 years, and will be showcasing them at Wolftrap tonight. While it’d be fun to rake Dumb (or was he Dumber?) over the coals for doing the…