Before Sugar first appears at the high-brow hair salon where she works, her name is mentioned a number of times. First by Ola (Yvonne Jegede), a regular at the salon who wants only her to do her hair. Next by Ama (Venita Akpofure of BBN), who is a new [...]
There are heavy movies that explore some sort of deep and complicated aspect of the human nature but still manage to be interesting. Unfortunately Blue is not one of them. Blue follows a young lady – Somto – who at first glance seems quite [...]
Technically, Dear Dianne is a movie about illness and other technical things that come with it. It’s the air that surrounds every agenda in this film, however, that’s not the focus. The focus is on relationships and not relationships like we [...]
There’s a special appeal to old nollywood type movies that are made with new nollywood techniques. That’s when they take a story that if done 15 years ago would include 2-3 parts, multiple unnecessary scenes, a soundtrack that tells you the [...]
We've seen a couple of rape movies from nollywood over the years, and many even in the past year (like "2 Broken", "Distance Between", "Code of Silence", "Lost Pride" and many many more). We're not trying to take away from the relevance of the subject [...]
Code of Silence is a movie about a girl who gets raped. Except that it's not your typical nollywood movie about a girl who gets raped. It does not subscribe to many of the usual pitfalls and it is does not have the average mindset. But does this make it a [...]
The feeling that you’ve seen a movie even before you see the movie is hardly ever a good thing. This is not inception. Lagos Cougars is the story of three supposedly older women who look like their in their late 30s who are dating meet and have [...]
I won’t deny that I was semi-excited about this movie when I originally heard of it. Why? Because even though I know better, a part of me still equates seeing Majid Michel’s face on a cast line-up with a guarantee for excellence and [...]
