The announcement that water has been found on Mars just happens to have emerged at the same time as the Matt Damon film is released. Spooky, or what?
Steven Soderbergh’s Behind the Candelabra is about the love match between the pianist Liberace and his bisexual young companion Scott Thorson.
Elysium is today’s gross global inequality realised. By 2154, humanity is divided into the privileged and the masses on whose backs this is built.
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Matt Damon’s sci-fi thriller Elysium has won a tight box-office race among four new films at US and Canadian cinemas.
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/ 8 December 2009
It certainly has a Hollywood ending. South Africans celebrate, white policemen hold a black boy aloft, and Nelson Mandela blesses the Springboks.
When to slow down and retire? For most people in their 60s the decision is a no-brainer — the sooner the better. But in the rare air of movie stardom, where careers are fuelled by a mix of talent, ego, vanity and, sometimes, cosmetic surgery, it seems to be a far harder decision.
It was one small step for man, but could be one giant leap in the career of an actor. Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, is to be the subject of a Hollywood biopic. The only question now is: Who is worthy of filling the space boots of the 20th-century icon who ”came in peace for all mankind”?
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/ 25 September 2007
Clint Eastwood may direct an upcoming Hollywood film based on former South African president Nelson Mandela and his appearance at the 1995 Rugby World Cup final, United States media reported on Tuesday. The drama will see Morgan Freeman portray Mandela, entertainment journal Daily Variety reported.
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/ 16 September 2007
A real and unprecedented opportunity for peace in Darfur is emerging after breakthrough talks between Britain and Khartoum this week, according to the United Kingdom’s key envoy to the region, Mark Malloch Brown. A new optimism is building ahead of next month’s crucial talks between 13 rebel factions and the Sudanese government in Libya.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews The Bourne Ultimatum, the third instalment of the Bourne series.