Weekend Film Reviews
Invictus; The Lovely Bones
Until now, America's curiosity about rugby has been on a par with its knowledge, but this could change with the advent of Invictus... Clint Eastwood's new movie is an inspirational game played by Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, and Matt Damon as the captain of a South African rugby team... Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones was adapted from Alice Sebold's widely admired novel. The movie, like the book, is party set in an Inbetween that occupies an ethereal space between heaven and earth; it's the vantage point from which the young heroine watches over her family after her death at the hands of a monstrous pervert...
By Joe Morgenstern • • 4m ListenUntil now, America's curiosity about rugby has been on a par with its knowledge, but this could change with the advent of
Invictus... Clint Eastwood's new movie is an inspirational game played by Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, and Matt Damon as the captain of a South African rugby team...
The Lovely Bones was adapted from Alice Sebold's widely admired novel. The movie, like the book, is party set in an Inbetween that occupies an ethereal space between heaven and earth; it's the vantage point from which the young heroine watches over her family after her death at the hands of a monstrous pervert...