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The Cinema For 12/11/09: Another Big Week Of Premieres

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Photo from Warner Brothers In akin to last week, the star power and big premieres are the case with this week's edition of The Cinema on TWD Friday. It really is hard to give any of these premieres top billing over the other since they all seem to indicate top quality from them. But, I kind of already did that by choosing a clip from Invictus at the top to slide that way (only because the publisher of this site is a massive Morgan Freeman/Matt Damon partisan). The reviews are generally positive, including one lauding Clint Eastwood, Freeman, and Damon Freeman, Eastwood's "Unforgiven" co-star, finds the smart strategist living inside Mandela. The 72-year-old Oscar-winner (for Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby") slows himself down some and stoops a bit to play Mandela, but you always see him thinking. In his scenes with Damon — who makes Pienaar a quiet, new-generation hero, even when the rugby captain has little to do but rally his team and face his separa...

The Daily Open Thread #2 For 7/16/09: Morgan Freeman To Not Marry His Step Granddaughter

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Relief for most of his fans , including myself (even though its his business so.....) American film star Morgan Freeman is not going to marry his step-granddaughter, his publicist has said. Then again I, and everyone else, should have known better because look who is the source who initiated this whole can of worms A report published by U.S. tabloid the National Enquirer recently suggested that the two of them were planning to wed, after the finalisation the actor's divorce from his second wife Myrna Colley-Lee. However, according to Contactmusic , Freeman's spokesman Dave Falkenstein has now said that there was no truth in that story, and branded it complete garbage. Yup, we should have all known better in the first place. More to come.