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 ...

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 ...

“T.I.A.,” mutters Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), slouched across a bar in Sierra Leone. It is 1999. As the West obsesses over Clinton’s blow job, the West African nation is mired in a savage civil ...

Until he got to Africa, Leonardo DiCaprio admits, his exposure to the conflicts surrounding diamond mining was limited. “I was like anybody else, I’d heard whispers, but it wasn’t until I got to ...

WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Diamond-producing Namibia launched an international advertising campaign on Friday to counter any adverse effect of the Warner Brothers thriller "Blood Diamond". The movie, ...

Jonathan Pienaar, the prolific South African star of films like Blood Diamond and series like Cape Town, has died at the age 63. Pienaar's ex-wife, the dancer Rosana Maya, confirmed his death on Nov.

For all the advance controversy its subject matter has generated, “Blood Diamond” is a surprisingly conventional and clunky attempt at a message film that never quite manages to have anything ...

Admittedly, the illegal sale of diamonds from war-torn regions of Africa isn’t the most burning of international issues and there probably wasn’t a great need for a message film aimed at showing the ...