I would really love to know how the idea for this film was conceived. Did you see all the digging in Gold Statue and think, “oh I can do that better”? Or did you see Money Heist and figure that you wanted to re-do it, Naija style. Whatever the [...]
The EbonyLife Films feature, Your Excellency, is quite the collage of scenes and there’s really no other way to put it. It follows the story of Chief Lekan Ajabi (Akin Lewis), a Trump lover and a comical presidential aspirant. In his third attempt [...]
Sugar Rush is that new nollywood formula at its most potent: high tech gadgets plus famous celebrities plus comedy equals blockbuster. At it’s frame, it’s the story of the Sugar sisters, Susie (Adesua Etomi), Sola (Bisola Aiyeola) and Bola [...]
Elevator Baby is the story of a spoiled rich brat (Dare played by Timini Egbuson) who gets stuck in the elevator with a semi-literate pregnant woman (Abigail played by Toyin Abraham) who also happens to go into labor right at that exact moment. Our [...]
If a movie isn’t going to be original or have an uber magnetic storyline then it should at least be entertaining! This is a concept that producer Chinneylove Eze seems to completely understand as she returns with a follow up to her 2017 romantic [...]
The thing I don’t get about the average nollywood comedy movie is when the decision was made that the only recipe for comedy must include a lack of intelligence. Makate Must Sell is such a forced attempt to wring out any leftover revenue from an [...]
Merry Men: The Real Yoruba Demons is an hour and forty six minute movie that is an hour and forty six minutes too long. The movie follows a group of rogue bandits in Abuja (or Lagos?) who have taken it upon themselves to be the robin-hoods of their [...]
There is a thing to be said about watching movies that were made over a year ago in your current day – expectations change. As time goes by, you see better and the things that would generally have bowled you over once upon a time can barely elicit a [...]