Funke Akindele produced and stars in She Must Be Obeyed, a new Amazon Prime series that she claims “addresses bullying in the music industry”. But in its first two episodes, which the purview of this review is strictly limited to, that premise [...]
Nigerian politics meets crime and action in this movie, a description that, by itself, is not sufficient to narrow down what recent Nollywood film you may be referring to. These plot ingredients are beginning to populate in Nollywood, but the final [...]
Nothing hurts a comedy more than obvious attempts to elicit laughs that come across as cringy, and Soole is chock full of them. It is probably good news then that Soole is not really a comedy, at least not after its first act; its plot (if you want to [...]
A Simple Lie grows into a complicated story on the Biodun Stephen–directed, Bisola Aiyeola–starring movie, in which this pair will log one more entry into a formidable partnership that was, in itself, half the attraction of the film. Stretching back to [...]
Passport is the creation of producer Vincent Okonkwo and writer Abosi Ogba and is the latest of movies to transition to streaming after a cinematic run that concluded last year. It tells the story of Oscar (Jim Iyke), a London-based socialite, who is [...]
Battle on Buka Street (BOBS) is a nollywood feel good slap stick comedy about two daughters from a polygamous family: Awele (Mercy Johnson) and Yejide (Funke Akindele). They inherit an intense rivalry from their mothers (Sola Sobowale and Tina Mba) who [...]
In a movie with many disappointing frames, the biggest let down was not to arrive until after the entire film, when the title card comes up at the end and reveals for the first time the movie’s name and creators. It says Dwindle, and the subtext [...]
Selina is the story of a village food stall owner, Bimbo Ademoye, who struggles to pay off her debts and put her younger brother through school. One day, one of her debtors suggests a job as a live-in cook slash cleaner for her “nephew” Reuben [...]