Chiwetel Ejiofor
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First look review
Rob Peace review – Chiwetel Ejiofor’s moving fact-based tragedyA magnificent lead performance from newcomer Jay Will helps to lift a rousing yet often uneven drama based on the life and death of a Yale student
Sundance 2024: Kristen Stewart, Saoirse Ronan and Steven Yeun lead lineup
The 40th edition of the Utah-based film festival will also feature new films from director Steven Soderbergh and actor turned film-maker Chiwetel Ejiofor
Sundance 2023: Anne Hathaway, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Julia Louis-Dreyfus lead lineup
After cancelling in-person events for the 2022 edition, the Utah-based festival will return to physical premieres for the first time since 2020
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness review – cheerful alt-reality sequelBenedict Cumberbatch returns as surgeon-superhero Stephen Strange, now on a mission to protect a teen who can visit parallel universes
TV review
The Man Who Fell to Earth review – small screen sequel series crash landsA misbegotten and poorly paced attempt to update the 1976 cult sci-fi classic wastes stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Naomie Harris
Audiobook of the week
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke audiobook review – narrator Chiwetel Ejiofor takes flightA mysterious building containing sea, clouds and wildlife is the setting for this intense and enigmatic tale read by the Hollywood actor – plus this week’s other picks
Why are so many Covid-made films focused on rich people?
Film-makers scrambling together projects during difficult conditions have decided mostly to base their work on couples with money above all else
Infinite review – Mark Wahlberg reincarnation thriller is stuck in the past
A musty attempt to start a new franchise about people with the ability to remember past lives is a misfiring melange of other better movies
Lenny Henry tells black Britons: get Covid jab to avoid being left behind
Open letter by comic and other black cultural figures encourages wider vaccine take-up
Locked Down review – Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor are suitably trapped
Hathaway and Ejiofor play a couple pushed to breaking point by lockdown in this disappointing pandemic drama
Locked Down review – Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor's pandemic stinker
Undeniable movie star charisma can’t save this torturous misfire about a couple who plan a heist during the London quarantine
Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
Before they were famous: stars' early stage appearances – in picturesTristram Kenton captures the debuts and breakthroughs of famous future faces including Emily Blunt, Martin Freeman, John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker and many more
Joy, radicalism and bare bottoms: the Young Vic turns 50
The giant street party has been cancelled. But there are still plans to celebrate the theatre that wowed young crowds, championed black playwrights and conjured finales from Italian cuisine
Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
Seagulls and samovars: the best of Chekhov, with Dench, McKellen and more – in picturesIn a new series, we open up Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton’s archive of stage photos. This week: Anton Chekhov productions with a cast including the Redgraves, Dominic West and Chiwetel Ejiofor
This much I know
Chiwetel Ejiofor: ‘You can’t play a part that’s not in you’The Old Guard review – Netflix immortality thriller won't live long in the memory
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil review – panto fun is missing in action
Culture webchats
Chiwetel Ejiofor on Forest Gate, Shakespeare, Lynne Ramsay and Angelina Jolie
Mark Kermode's film of the week
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Tristram Kenton at the GuardianSeagulls and samovars: the best of Chekhov, with Dench, McKellen and more – in picturesIn a new series, we open up Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton’s archive of stage photos. This week: Anton Chekhov productions with a cast including the Redgraves, Dominic West and Chiwetel Ejiofor
