Mental illness in Nigeria is still a taboo subject, still something that is viewed as caused by ‘those in the village’ and still not talked about or addressed. In Nollywood, filmmakers have taken to the subject sometimes successfully and sometimes not. [...]
Dark Waters is a movie focused on a familiar issue. A graduate plagued by his families poverty and his inability to obtain a job. Then when he finally obtains a job he seems to let fear push him to the extreme. Although, the plot is pretty unoriginal [...]
The movie 'kidnap' is centered around four friends who seek to take out vengeance on their ex-boss by kidnapping his daughter and extorting a huge ransom from him. Now, even though I don't think it makes much sense to kidnap as vengeance, I also see how [...]
Bent Arrows is a movie that explores the lives of three different women from three different backgrounds. It tells of how they found themselves in their current situations, and the effect their backgrounds had on their future selves
-Story: [3 out of 5] I love the story and the moral of the story and the purpose behind the story and all of that but most of all I like the fact that it actually does have a story and the story has a moral too (not something you can say about most of [...]
-Story: [4 out of 5] It was a killer. I believe that word does not even begin to express how magnificent the story was. As a matter of fact, I think I am going on a diet, a strictly Ruth Kadiri stories diet. If it’s not Ruth Kadiri, I’m not [...]
Ok! The first two parts: prince loves girl, girl goes abroad to get education, girl comes back with white man in the guise of research partner, everyone waits for prince to marry, so that prince number two can marry too, girl disappoints... watch out for [...]
-Story: [3 out of 5] The story behind the movie is quite fascinating actually however the scenarios used in building this story…. sometimes border on ridiculous. For instance, how are you pregnant in a house with a housewife-mother and she [...]
