De Beers, the Johannesburg-based company with a hammerlock on the world's diamond trade, has been waging a PR campaign for months in anticipation of Blood Diamond, a thriller about the wars waged over ...

“Blood Diamond” is a visually sumptuous, bullet-train-paced thriller with a really provocative theme. Director Edward Zwick and company give it just the kind of explosive elements it needs to hook an ...

“Blood Diamond,” set in late-1990s Sierra Leone, before the end of that country’s civil war, is a public-service announcement masquerading as an adventure story, a picture made with a great deal of ...

''T.I.A.," say only three characters in only two scenes in Blood Diamond, but the phrase echoes throughout the entire film. It stands for "This Is Africa," and it conveys a strange brand of fatalism — ...