Movies starring Derek Luke

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Catch a Fire

It would be easy to dismiss Catch a Fire as yet another story of a heroic rebel fighting against an oppressive regime. That would be an accurate high-level description of the story, but it neglects the intangibles: solid acting, effective direction...

Run Time: 1:41
U.S. Release Date: 2006-10-27
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Derek Luke, Tim Robbins, Bonnie Henna, ...
Definitely, Maybe

In spite of an awkward title and an uninspired choice for the leading man, Definitely, Maybe nevertheless manages to charm with its bittersweet story of love and loss that ends on an upbeat and romantic note. The movie starts out as one thing but,...

Run Time: 1:50
U.S. Release Date: 2008-02-14
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ROMANTIC DRAMA
Director: Adam Brooks
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Elizabeth Banks, Rachel Weisz, ...
Friday Night Lights

If you go to this movie based solely on how it is being portrayed in the trailers and advertisements, you will probably be expecting a feel-good romp through familiar territory - a football version of Hoosiers. Like nearly all sports movies, Frida...

Run Time: 1:57
U.S. Release Date: 2004-10-08
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Peter Berg
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Lucas Black, Garrett Hedlund, ...
Glory Road

Sports movies, with all the requisite clichés attached, are a dime a dozen, and no one has done them better in recent years than Disney. With every year, the roster lengthens, and now includes all of the four major sports, plus golf. The thing t...

Run Time: 1:53
U.S. Release Date: 2006-01-13
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: SPORTS DRAMA
Director: James Gartner
Cast: Josh Lucas, Emily Deschanel, Red West, ...
Lions for Lambs

Lions for Lambs is one of those movies in which the principals talk a lot but don't say much. The film is built not upon characters and plot but upon ideas. That would be fine if the ideas were revolutionary or interesting, but they're fairly com...

Run Time: 1:30
U.S. Release Date: 2007-11-09
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Robert Redford
Cast: Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, ...
Miracle at St. Anna

Recently, Spike Lee was in the news feuding with Clint Eastwood about the absence of black servicemen in Eastwood's recent Iwo Jima duology. According to Lee, Eastwood ignored history in Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima by not making...

Run Time: 2:40
U.S. Release Date: 2008-09-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Spike Lee
Cast: Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, ...
Notorious

Last year, when I heard about a film on the way called Notorious, I was concerned that there would be an "updating" of Alfred Hitchcock's film of the same name. Thankfully, this is not the case. Notorious is not an example of a remake, but it is ...

Run Time: 2:00
U.S. Release Date: 2009-01-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: George Tillman Jr.
Cast: Jamal Woolard, Derek Luke, Angela Bassett, ...
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Someone could write a compelling thesis about humanity's obsession with the apocalypse. Over the years, the cinema has exploited this affinity, most often in disaster movies. Lately, however, there has been a trend toward end-of-the-world films tha...

Run Time: 1:42
U.S. Release Date: 2012-06-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Lorene Scafaria
Cast: Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, Martin Sheen, ...
Self/Less

Self/less begins with a promising (albeit well-worn) science fiction premise, degrades it by turning it into a generic thriller, and finishes it off with a rushed, disjointed ending. The film, from director Tarsem Singh (whose most recent credit was ...

Run Time: 1:57
U.S. Release Date: 2015-07-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: Science Fiction/Thriller
Director: Tarsem Singh
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Ben Kingsley, Natalie Martinez, ...
Sparkle

Sparkle is a remake; the original was released theatrically in 1976. I have never seen that version, but that didn't stem a powerful sense of déjà vu while sitting through this one. That's because Sparkle is an assembly of parts and pieces from o...

Run Time: 1:57
U.S. Release Date: 2012-08-17
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Violence, Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Salim Akil
Cast: Jordin Sparks, Whitney Houston, Derek Luke, ...