The gift nollywood gave me for Christmas last year was the shot in the GIF below. That was not a fall. That was not an act. That was a dance! That singular scene negated so much concern and disbelief I had for the industry in six small seconds. Thank you [...]
THE Shirley Frimpong-Manso of the much loved “Adams Apples Series” comes back to get our hearts again with Potato Potahto –Â a cute romantic comedy about a couple who get divorced but both refuse to leave the house for the other. The two [...]
Oh what a season it has been! We were all over the moon last year when we heard that Skinny Girl in Transit was finally coming back for the 5th season. Then we saw the trailer – in which Mide says that he is cancelling the wedding – and we all [...]
Let’s start this off by saying that I neither expected to be as excited nor as intrigued as I am by Flat 3B. The promotional video that I saw featured a hungover young lady sitting in front of a fine looking young man asking him what happened the [...]
If Lionheart was an ode to the eastern parts of Nigeria, Up North an ode to the North and King of Boys an ode to the west, then KASALA is an ode to the slums that make up the heart of Lagos. Kasala – a pidgin word which loosely translates to [...]
Now that the year 2018 is over, let’s talk numbers! There were many shakers this year and at many points nollywood movie after nollywood movie topped the list of highest grossing movies at the cinemas – beating out international contenders as [...]
While the rest of the industry abandons the actors of old, she casts Jemima Osunde right beside Kanayo O. Kanayo. While all the movies in “new nollywood” are not just set in Lagos but in the poshest parts of the island, she sets the film in [...]
When you go to see a movie in a cinema, you can only really feel one of two things. You either (a) feel fortunate that you saw the movie because it was good (and before the internet gave you its entire plot) or (b) you feel unfortunate that you left your [...]
