Edward Zwick is one of the few Hollywood directors of the past two decades whose name has come to stand not just for quality but for a specific kind of movie: an ambitious, issue-oriented ...

this year alone four movies based in Africa have been released: "Tsotsi," "The Last King of Scotland," "Catch a Fire" and now "Blood Diamond." The one thing people knows comes from Sierra Leone is ...

idealist and victim that makes a fine foundation for a conventional Hollywood message movie. Which Blood Diamond is. But it is also powerful, well-acted and undeniably persuasive. No wonder the ...

Blood Diamond takes place in 1998 ... So there’s a lot going on here, which can be a problem for so-called “message movies.” A movie’s prime function should be to captivate its audience ...

Alan Silverman has a look at the new film Blood Diamond. They are known by various ... so being an African and being in Hollywood making movies, these are the kinds of stories I love to take ...

(As far as African-crisis movies go, Terry George's Hotel Rwanda ... later provides the crux of his ricocheting character arc. Blood Diamond is by turns moving, horrific, and bombastic; rarely ...

Danny will help if Solomon leads him to a huge pink diamond he's hidden and gets rid ... didn't insist on turning it into a message movie. DiCaprio is terrific, but he can't save this lecture ...

That's all well and good, but Zwick doesn't want to stop there: he needs bums on seats to make a profit, and to that end turns Blood Diamond into an action movie with a love story. The action ...