There is always a certain degree of excitement for me before I hit play on an English nollywood movie with a big Yoruba movie star in it. This is mostly because I don’t watch too many Yoruba movies so I get excited at the opportunity to see what [...]
Before hitting play on this gem, I went back to the coming soon post that we had initially created for it on NR and I reread the synopsis. Somewhere in there, it says something about an “Igbo Christian” falling for an “Hausa [...]
Sometimes you need to take a hiatus from seeing the same old story line so you try something new and different. However, after some time, new and different gets to become a bit tasking and you seek familiarity, and that’s what this movie is: [...]
Ok, so we have yet another Shirley Frimpong-Manso movie and if you follow this blog at all you’ll know how I feel about those. I respect the woman and I respect her work. However, I will not deny that most of her work either starts off as or is [...]
Ok, ok! This genre is getting old. I get it now. It's a formula that works. It's easy to watch ("when I say easy to watch I mean that it's in a genre that doesn't pose too many questions or ruffle many feathers). At the end of the movie, everyone's [...]
‘A Little White Lie’ is a very formulaic script. It tells the story of a young lady who is single and could care less but on the eve of her parent’s arrival (considering she had lied to them that she was in a relationship) she is faced [...]
Heard a quote earlier today about writing for movies. The quote states and I paraphrase, "don't say what you think about the movie but write about what you felt". Now this is all well and good except a formula can only work so many times before it becomes [...]
If there's one thing you can rely on about Emem Isong movies, especially the ones that don't go to the cinema, it's their simplicity. They are pretty cut and dry about their intentions from the go. This movie is called glass slippers... Cinderalla... poor [...]
