You can’t beat a good happy ending and Clint Eastwood’s ‘Invictus’ doesn’t disappoint. The film charts the release from prison of Nelson Mandela in 1990 and then moves forward to his election as president of South Africa in ‘94. Central to the film is the issue of the South African rugby team and Mandela’s realisation that rather than the banning of the springbok emblem and colours, their retention could instead be crucial in uniting the country. Enter Matt Damon as Springbok captain Francois Pienaar. After a meeting of the two men, a strong bond develops as South Africa prepare for the 1995 World Cup. The rugby action is well engineered despite Damon being 5 inches shorter than Pienaar in real life! Morgan Freeman gives a stunning performance as Mandela and the film neatly encapsulates the changing of a country through sport and politics.
DANGER MOUSE
Not only a super-hero but also a secret agent who, with his trusty sidekick Penfold would thwart evil villains, not least Baron Greenback and his sneaky henchman Stiletto Mafiosa.
Laughter's the Best Medicine
It’s easy to panic when there’s an emergency. These are some true calls from our friends across the pond. If you need some help, you dial 911.
Dispatcher: 911 What is your emergency? Caller: I heard what sounded like gunshots coming from the brown house on the corner.
Dispatcher: Do you have an address? Caller: No, I have on a blouse and slacks, why?
Dispatcher: What’s the nature of your emergency? Caller: I'm trying to reach nine eleven but my phone doesn't have an eleven on it.
Dispatcher: This is nine eleven.
Caller: I thought you just said it was nine-one-one Dispatcher: Yes, ma'am nine-one-one and nine-eleven are the same thing.
Caller: Honey, I may be old, but I'm not stupid.
Dispatcher: What's the nature of your emergency?
Caller: My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart. Dispatcher: Is this her first child? Caller: No, you idiot! This is her husband!
FRESH OUT THE CRACKER!
A bloke arrives at a nightclub door
and the bouncers say he can't come
in without a tie, so he goes to the
boot of his car and gets a pair of
jump leads, wraps them around his
neck and goes back to the doormen.
"Can I come in now?' he says to
the bouncers. 'Yeah, but don't
start anything''.