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Clint Eastwood has been a Hollywood icon since he soared to stardom thanks to playing the Man With No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy. Having become one of the film industry's best stars and directors in the years since, the A-lister has taken on dozens of projects, racking up one of the most impressive careers in cinema. However, like most actors, he has his fair share of critical flops and box office failures too.

Best known for his work in the Western and thriller genres, Eastwood has endeared himself to generations of movie fans as a symbol of masculinity and the rugged American spirit. Typically playing the role of macho and abrasive antiheroes, the actor is far from perfect, and some movies show this. While he rarely makes a bad movie, particularly since becoming an icon, he still has his share of stories that, uncredited roles aside, simply...

On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.

First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.

Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.

The Pitch: That’s $1522 Per Ape, Per Day!

Two weeks ago, when I found myself watching “Eye of the Cat” for this very column, I realized that it was a remnant of a niche subgenre that has been dormant for far too long: films about humans and animals competing for large inheritances. Despite the fact that pets have absolutely no use for human currency, it used to be perfectly acceptable to open a film with a will reading, only for a human protagonist to discover that his rich relative left their...