Word: ejiofor
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That's pretty impressive, considering that 2012 is not a sequel or a brand name and that its stars (John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Woody Harrelson) are associated more with indie fare than with blockbusters. All Emmerich had to work with was a vaguely ominous future date - think 1984, 2001 - and his confidence that he could get people into theaters by telling them they're all gonna die. He's done it before. A past master of disaster, the German director devastated the planet in Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow; he wasted New York City in Godzilla...
...involves elements of jiu-jitsu, kick-boxing and the many other weird ways men have devised to do great bodily harm to one another. That gives Redbelt an original edge that somewhat separates it from the boxing genre. This advantage is greatly enhanced by its protagonist, Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor, who is excellent in the role). Mike is a black belt jiu-jitsu instructor, running a none-too-successful school in South Central Los Angeles, yet refusing to fight for the money that would lift him out of poverty. He holds to the ancient Samurai Code, which insists that competition...
...they usually do, the Spirits offered more diversity than the Oscars, which has only one black acting nominee this year (Ruby Dee, for American Gangster). The Spirit Awards' Best Supporting Male category had three African Americans (Chiwetel Ejiofor, for Talk To Me; Marcus Carl Franklin, for I'm Not There; and Kene Holliday, for Great World of Sound), one Indian (Irfan Khan, for The Namesake) and one under-appreciated Caucasian comic in a dramatic role (Steve Zahn, in Rescue Dawn). Eljiofor...
...where he was permitted two daily 20-minute spots as a disc jockey on the prison's public address system. In that unlikely context, he primitively pioneered something akin to the now ubiquitous shock-jock style. With the help of a straight-arrow program director named Dewey Hughes (Chiwetel Ejiofor), he pretty much elbowed his way into a job at WOL-AM, a near-moribund Washington, DC radio station, whose audience was basically black and basically fed up with conventional broadcasting...
...stage entrancing. Director Julian Jarrold clearly wants Lola’s public persona to be highlighted, as we see full versions of several pieces, including “Whatever Lola Wants.” If “Dirty Pretty Things” couldn’t bump Ejiofor to A-list, maybe this display of his acting range and talent will finally give him that extra push...