The premise: Invictus, Clint Eastwood’s adaptation of John Carlin’s book, “Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation”, is set in post apartheid South Africa shortly after Mandela (Morgan Freeman) assumes the presidency, as the country prepares to host the 1995 Rugby World Cup tournament.
The play: [...]
Invictus
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 27 January, 2010 to the movies subset
Tags: Brenda Mazibuko, Julian Lewis Jones, Matt-Damon, Morgan Freeman, movies, reviews, Tony Kgoroge
The Bourne Ultimatum
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 20 September, 2007 to the movies subset
A movie like the The Bourne Ultimatum makes you wonder what sort of a world we might be living in. A world where the “war on terrorism” has given security agencies unlimited power to do whatever they feel is necessary to thwart “potential” danger.
Mobile and land line phones can be tapped, and email accounts hacked, [...]
