From Jane Eyre to Wuthering Heights and even Harry Potter to Twilight, there is never a movie adaptation of a book that does not seem to suffer from what I shall hence refer as “not as good as the book syndrome” and Biyi Bandele’s [...]
Turning Point is an unconventional tale. Unconventional in the sense that technically it is a nollywood USA movie however it manages to circumvent all the annoyances and pitfalls of that ‘genre?’. Turning Point is the story of a successful [...]
I really want to decimate this movie. Destroy it. Reduce it to rubble. I really want to go into a long and vicious rant about the filmmakers and everyone involved in it. Alas I fear I do not have enough talent, that no one has enough talent to express [...]
You might have heard that back in May The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) approved a 12-man committee for Nollywood responsible for selecting a Nollywood movie for a nomination in the Best Foreign Film in the next Oscars. It was [...]
The first half and a quarter of this movie is nothing new, in fact it specifically rehashes over 20 of Mercy Johnson’s past movies. However in the second part it started to get interesting and original. But nothing can save the old tired comedy troupe of [...]
I stumbled on Face of Sorrow whilst looking for a family-type movie. It had all the tell-tale signs of potential success in that genre: a family unit, a village champion villain, and a main protagonist girl to cry on cue. I got most of what I was [...]
After the disappointment of recent movies releases, this movie is a cool balm for any disappointed Nollywood fans. It’s funny, very interesting and definitely puts a shiny beautiful gloss on an old played out trope. The old con girls try to trick men for [...]
My theory that a good movie can only be made with a good director is heavily supported by this movie. Movies that have a bad story or terrible actors can still be saved but an inexperienced or just plain bad director can sink a film. However when there is [...]
