In the ambitious, sweeping and sometimes moving Blood Diamond, Edward Zwick aims to fuse recent history with mass-scale entertainment. That’s nothing new for Hollywood, and the story of the wages of ...
They say you can’t get blood from a stone, but the team behind the new film, Blood Diamond would beg to differ. Set in Sierra Leone in the 1999, the film follows a mercenary (Leonardo DiCaprio), a ...
Edward Zwick's (Last Samurai, Courage Under Fire) latest film, Blood Diamond, explores the world of conflict diamonds, diamond smuggling, and the millions of people in Africa affected by the wars that ...
Blood Diamond director Ed Zwick is furious over yesterday’s gossip report alleging that Warner Bros made a promise during filming on location to provide prosthetic limbs to orphaned African teenaged ...
Blood Diamond starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly, Kagiso Kuypers has a R rating, a runtime of about 2 hr 23 min. The release date of the movie is December 8th, 2006. The ...
Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...
The Holiday (Columbia Pictures) is built around a premise so friendly it may inspire a new subgenre: the house-swap rom-com. Kate Winslet plays Iris, a British journalist who’s trying to get over a ...
Having already roiled the diamond industry, "Blood Diamond" arrives with the best of intentions, harrowing sequences but ultimately mixed results. Leonardo DiCaprio and Djimon Hounsou deliver powerful ...
''T.I.A.," say only three characters in only two scenes in Blood Diamond, but the phrase echoes throughout the entire film. It stands for "This Is Africa," and it conveys a strange brand of fatalism — ...
Oscar Alums: Jennifer Connelly (supporting actress, “A Beautiful Mind”), Edward Zwick (picture, “Shakespeare in Love”), Ngila Dickson (costume design, “LOTR: The Return of the King”), Ivan Sharrock ...
Blood diamonds, child soldiers and shocking brutality: In the heart of Sierra Leone, a fisherman, a reporter and a former mercenary fight to survive the madness of civil war. How can you escape a ...