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Clint Eastwood's "Invictus" is a tribute to the grace of Nelson Mandela, with a wonderful performance from Morgan Freeman.
He is Mandela: Struggling leader royally portrayed in solid, but conventional film
The true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team, Francois Pienaar, to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid.
As he approaches 80, living legend Clint Eastwood shows no signs of slowing down, nor shirking from challenges as a filmmaker. The Oscar-caliber “Invictus” entertainingly delves into South African politics and rugby, two normally forbidding subjects ...
VIDEO: "Invictus" is the weekend's only wide opener, but the expanding "The Princess and the Frog" is expected to top the boxoffice.
In a stunning display of artistic prowess, Clint Eastwood's string of late-career hits remains unbroken. "Invictus," Eastwood's depiction of South...
NEW YORK - "Up in the Air" was named best picture by the National Board of Review and won a total of four awards.
! URBAN ! LOS ANGELES (AP) — It isn't often that you can go to a movie — and see history made. But that's just what will happen this weekend for those who see the first black princess in a Disney animated movie.
Invictus » Opens Friday at area theaters; rated PG-13 for thematic elements and brief strong language; 100 minutes. There's half a good movie in director Clint Eastwood's melodramatic telling of how Nelson Mandela, in his early days as South Africa's president after the fall of
WITH APOLOGIES to William Ernest Henley, one might say that under the bludgeonings of Clint, "Invictus" emerges a little boring, but unbowed.
According to our panel of critics, the awards-season competition among actors is not all that exciting—especially, several critics assert, in the leading-actor category. "It's a quiet year for actors," says Sean Smith, Los Angeles bureau chief of Entertainment Weekly.
Leigh Taylor-Young and I participated recently in the Parliament of the World's Religions in Melbourne, Australia. Nelson Mandela attended that Parliament as well and spoke of his "debt" to religion throughout his life.
"The Princess and the Frog" - Disney returns to hand-drawn animation with this variation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "The Frog Prince," featuring waitress Tiana, above, and her adventure with a prince turned into a frog. Rated G.
OSLO - Newly enshrined among the world's great peacemakers, President Barack Obama offered a striking defense of war. Eleven months into his presidency, a fresh Obama doctrine.
"War president" Barack Obama was due Thursday to accept his controversial Nobel Peace Prize amid Norway's biggest ever police security operation.
Nelson Mandela made it clear that Morgan Freeman was the man he would want to play him in a film.
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