Movies starring Chiwetel Ejiofor

Love Actually (2003)

135 mins     Comedy, Drama, Romance      

Last time I checked Christmas only comes once a year but that doesn't stop Christmas movie "Love Actually" cropping up on TV through out the year. Not that I am complaining as "Love Actually" is one of those charming British ...

Four Brothers (2005)

104 mins     Action , Crime, Drama, Thriller      

A While back I watched an old John Wayne western called "The Sons of Katie Elder" a movie about 4 brothers who return to their homestead to bury their mother and seek revenge for a handful of wrong doings. It was thoroughly e...

Kinky Boots (2005)

107 mins     Comedy, Drama      

Before I watched "Kinky Boots" for the first time someone told me it was what Frank Capra would have made if he was making movies now and do you know what that isn't a bad description. Don't get me wrong as "Kinky Boots" in n...

Serenity (2005)

119 mins     Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi      

Serenity (2005) - Mal (Nathan Fillion) and his mercenary crew find themselves hunted down by the Alliance as they transport River (Summer Glau)...

Inside Man (2006)

129 mins     Crime, Drama, Thriller      

A good bank job movie is like a good magic trick you know at some point the robbers are going to pull of an audacious get away and you want to know how. Part of the success of Spike Lee's bank job movie "Inside Man" is the pa...

American Gangster (2007)

169 mins     Crime, Drama      

I've heard Ridley Scott's "American Gangster" being called "The Godfather" for the 21st century, but sadly it isn't, it doesn't even come close to the epic superiority of Francis Ford Coppola's genre defining movie. But that ...

Redbelt (2008)

99 mins     Drama, Sport      

I am kind of impressed by "Redbelt" but am also kind of at a loss by it at the same time. You see "Redbelt" is kind of indefinable as here we have this story about a man of principal who won't fight; he did his fighting in th...

2012 (2009)

158 mins     Action , Adventure , Disaster, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller      

There was a time when a disaster movie would be about a sinking ship, a doomed plane or a burning building but in recent years it appears that Hollywood is not content just to have this scale of drama, they want bigger, they ...

Salt (2010)

100 mins     Action , Crime, Mystery      

To me "Salt" feels like a cross between "The Manchurian Candidate" with "Mission: Impossible" style action but with a female hero rather than a male. Now on one hand that makes it derivative, it is simply familiar in style to...

12 Years a Slave (2013)

134 mins     Biography, Drama      

I can't remember the last time I watched a movie which came in over 2 hours where time just flew past. It is a sensation which comes from a collective of right things and "12 Years a Slave" is a collective of those right thin...

Savannah (2013)

101 mins     Drama, Family      

Movie Review - Savannah (2013) Jim Caviezel and Chiwetel Ejiofor star in this episodic drama about Ward Allen and his friend Christmas Moultie as they get in and out of plenty of trouble...

The Martian (2015)

144 mins     Adventure , Drama, Sci-Fi      

Movie Review - The Martian (2015) Matt Damon stars as Astronaut Mark Watney who is left on Mars when the rest of the crew think he is dead. But it turns out Mark is alive and whilst he has to MacGyver away of surviving, Missi...

Z for Zachariah (2015)

94 mins     Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller      

Movie Review - Z for Zachariah (2015) when a disaster almost wipes out humanity, two men and a woman find themselves in a love triangle with the future of mankinf resting upon them...

Doctor Strange (2016)

115 mins     Action , Adventure , Fantasy      

Movie Review - Doctor Strange (2016) after a car crash leaves brilliant neurosurgeon Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) with hands which shake uncontrollably it leads him on a quest for a cure, a quest which takes him...