CLINT Eastwood’s latest directorial outing, Invictus , has been greeted with a mixed early response from critics in America. Based on the novel Playing The Enemy by John Carlin, the film – which takes its name from the Latin word for “unconquerable” and comes from a stirring 1875 poem by British writer William Ernest Henley – tells the true story of how Nelson Mandela...
Print: Good - Sound: Good - Label: Universal - Year: 2007 - Cover: Good - Format: 2.4:1 - Length: 1h50m/1h42m - Before: No - Again: Maybe - Price: £1 - Rating: 7/10. The Bourne Ultimatum continues from where the Bourne Supremacy ends, with Jason Bourne ( Matt Damon ) desperate to uncover the secrets of his identity. Jason is tracking down a British journalist, Simon Ross ( Paddy Considine ),...
Print: Good - Sound: Good - Label: Universal - Year: 2004 - Cover: Good - Format: 2.35:1 - Length: 1h44m/1h38m - Before: No - Again: Maybe - Price: £1 - Rating: 6.5/10. The Bourne Supremacy picks up where The Bourne Identity left off. The CIA assassin and amnesiac Jason Bourne ( Matt Damon ) is framed for a murder in Berlin , setting off a chain reaction of pursuits involving CIA handlers and...
Print: Good - Sound: Good - Label: Universal - Year: 2002 - Cover: Good - Format: 2.35:1 - Length: 1h54m/1h48m - Before: Yes on VCD - Again: Yes - Price: £1 - Rating: 7/10. In The Bourne Identity , the battered body of Jason Bourne ( Matt Damon ) is pulled from the sea by fisherman and nursed back to health. On awakening he remembers nothing of his past, not even his name or how he got into the...
Already the Clint Eastwood film Invictus with Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela is being screened and the raves are coming in with everyone saying that Freeman is an obvious shoo-in not only for an Oscar nomination but also to win. However quite a few are saying that the breakout star in the film is [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content,...
The first reviews for Invictus are available at Variety , Hollywood Reporter , Huffington Post and Newsweek . At this time, Matt is strangely not scheduled to appear on any talk shows to promote the film. Variety With the exception of the meeting with Mandela and a couple of family scenes, most of Damon's screen time is spent in training or on the field, and it's meant as highest praise to say that,...
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The first reviews of Clint Eastwood's new film Invictus have begun to appear online. The story tells the "inspiring true story" of how the newly elected President Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s underdog rugby team, Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon), as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match, to help unite their...
There’s far too much information these days about people who have “gone wrong.” But thank goodness for the occasional celebration of what’s good in the world! And with today being Thanksgiving, it seems only natural to take a look at the people named in VH1’s special Top 20 Celebs Gone Good. Here were the wonderful celebrities that made the list and the charities they...
The big performance in Invictus is Morgan Freeman's Nelson Mandela, as you might expect. And Matt Damon's Francois Pienaar is...well, sturdy enough. But the sticker after these two is South African actor Tony Kgoroge, who plays Mandela's chief security guy, Jason Tshabalala. Invictus costar Tony Kgoroge in Manhattan last August One obvious reason is that Kgoroge is handsome -- hunky even -- with a...
How do the stars celebrate Thanksgiving? Us reports that many of our favorite celeb parents are spending the holidays eating, cooking and spending time with their families. Read on! Jessica Alba : "I am making the turkey this year. My mom just laid it on me! I will be making a 26 pounder. I’m just bringing the turkey. We do it potluck style." Russell Simmons : "I'm going to go...
J.J. Abrams confirmed to MTV that Matt Damon turned down the role of George Kirk (James T. Kirk father) in his Star Trek movie. Abrams said: “I did [approach Damon], but not for the role of James Kirk. I went to Damon for the role of Kirk’s father, and he declined in the most gracious and [...]
Who Won Dancing With The Stars Last Night The Adjustment Bureau , a sci-fi romance based on a short story by Philip K. Dick. Directed by George Nolfi. Shooting continues to mid-December. With Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. Principals: Mackey Sandrich Casting, 180 Grand St., 3rd fl., NYC 10013 … see more. See also: dancing with [...]
During his incarceration, Mandela studied his Afrikaner enemies and was wise to the role sports played in the national psyche. South Africa's less-than-sterling rugby team, the Springbok, was as beloved by whites as it was despised by the black population, to whom it had become a symbol of oppression. Yet Mandela, taking a huge political risk, refuses to give in to his supporters' demand that the team...
Emily Blunt used to have a stutter. The 'Young Victoria' actress suffered from the speech impediment while growing up and admits she used to be reluctant to speak as a teenager. She said in an interview with New York Times magazine: "Because I couldn't talk very much, I watched the world go by more closely." Rather than let her stutter get the better of her, Emily improved her speech by listening...
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