Earnest, engaged, compassionate and way too long at 150 minutes, Blood Diamond is probably not the kind of movie most of us feel like watching during the holidays but probably should, for our own ...

"Last Samurai" director Edward Zwick has a very poignant and beautiful movie on his hands. "Blood Diamond" takes the one thing that is said to be a "girl's best friend" and "last forever" and ...

whose lives intersect in a path to recover a priceless diamond. Far from an ordinary action film, the movie raises awareness about blood diamonds, or conflict diamonds: gems mined in war zones to ...

For millennial viewers, a second movie may have come to mind: Blood Diamond. Ed Zwick’s 2006 feature, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, and Jennifer Connolly, has become synonymous ...

With the 2007 movie Blood Diamond still pulling big crowds into Freetown's movie halls, Sierra Leone's new promotion agency would like nothing better than to see it banned. "This Blood Diamond ...

Blood Diamond is a ... couple of months, but the diamond industry has already launched a sophisticated campaign that seems designed to blunt any damage the movie might cause to sales this holiday ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The message in new movie "Blood Diamond" is clear: know the history of a precious gem before buying it. But whether moviegoers pay attention to this "message movie" is a ...

(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 ...