The Mule (2018)

SKY CINEMA PREMIERE/NOW TV, 9.45PM ★★★★

 In his second appearance of the day, Eastwood both directs and leads as Earl Stone, an elderly man who ends up running drugs for a Mexican cartel after his flower business fails. (It’s based on a true story.) He’s a charming old codger who comes good, though the script wants both to indulge and flatly present his un-pc outbursts. Laurence Fishburne and Bradley Cooper are the DEA agents on his trail.