Adire, a two-hour-plus comedy-drama tells the tale of Asari (aka Adire) portrayed by Kehinde Bankole, an ambitious woman striving to escape her life as a prostitute. Eager to pursue a career in fashion design, she seizes a chance to break free from her [...]
In her inaugural foray into blockbuster productions, Mercy Aigbe grapples with a narrative that, despite its initial promise of profound importance, falls short of delivering the anticipated depth and impact. The film, while showcasing Aigbe’s [...]
How far will you go for your parent? Are you willing to sacrifice everything to save a loved one? Can you toss your hardcore values aside for your parent? These are questions that A Tribe Called Judah answers and also poses to its audience. A Tribe Called [...]
Globally, the Yuletide season is synonymous with the exchange of gifts. So, In this Christmas-themed narrative by Kunle Afolayan, Kunle Remi, Abayomi Alvin, and Efa Iwara are brothers faced with the task of gifting their mother, played by the late Rachel [...]
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 [...]
