Hollywood is based on a star system, launching actors to leading men status and then hitching scripts and hopes to their tails. It's how movies get ma...

Jazz musician Kyle Eastwood talks his new album, Metropolitain, living in Paris, and doing musical scores for film.

At the age of 80, Clint Eastwood just keeps pulling surprises out of his back pocket as a director -- the latest being Hereafter, Eastwood's version of a New-Agey entry.

John Carlin is a much accomplished journalist and author who ranked as the dean of foreign correspondents (for the UK Independent) in South Africa dur...

I'm still not convinced that The Blind Side will win an Academy Award, but it is true that it is something of a miracle that it was ever nominated.

Was Eastwood disappointed that 'Invictus' was passed over in both the Best Picture and Director categories this year? "No," he told Moviefone. "Loo...

You need to take your children to see Invictus because it's a story about leadership. American kids need to see an example of what elected leaders are actually supposed to do.

When the Oscar nominations were announced this morning there were several key omissions. No Julianne Moore? No Samantha Morton?

Clint Eastwood grinned ear-to-ear at the London premiere of "Invictus" Sunday night with three lovely ladies on his arms, wife Dina, their daughter Mo...

Most of us know little to nothing about the sport of rugby, but that is not an impediment to enjoying this film. If you can appreciate Mandela's dream of unity, you will enjoy this film.

In our country, hate sells. Even the idealists among us must be wondering if the idea of brotherhood can compete against it. Well, it can. It did in South Africa.

With $1.33 billion in the worldwide bank, Avatar is just over $500 million away from breaking Titanic's seemingly unsinkable $1.8 billion record.

Despite the regal performance by Morgan Freeman, it may be difficult for those who fought for South Africa to see Invictus as anything other than a diversion from the true gravity of this history.

I wonder why there hasn't been more in the popular culture linking the two leaders -- Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela -- and their transcendent personal histories.