Different Strokes tells the story of four friends, Lydia (portrayed by Mercy Johnson), Dunni (portrayed by Mosun Filani Oduoye), Onyinye (portrayed by Lilian Esoro), and Manila (portrayed by Blessing Jessica), as they grapple with the complexities of [...]
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 [...]
A Lot Like Love is a lot like many other nollywood switch-it-up romances that you’ve seen before. I have thought about it, and it will be too difficult to review this movie without revealing some details hence… SPOILER ALERT In A Lot Like [...]
There is a particular scene in this movie which was flashed-back to not once or twice or even thrice for that matter but four times. Four separate equally meaningless times! For no discernible reason other than to waste theirs and the viewers time. There [...]
You know that new but slowly becoming popular arrangement in Hollywood where an nontraditional movie studio hires an A-List director (See Netflix with First They Killed My Father by Angelina Jolie and Beasts of No Nation by Cary Fukunaga) to churn out a [...]
Alright, so let’s get this out of the way immediately. HANDS UP if you saw this movie/the trailer and immediately thought it was a Nollywood remake of Tyler Perry’s “Why Did I Get Married?” (or should I say another one of [...]
So let’s get some things straight, Eddie Watson still can’t act, Hauwa is a gift from Kannywood to nollywood, Desmond Elliott just be mesmerizing the girls dem, Alexx Ekubo has some ways to go, and finally if you want to make your movie a hit [...]
We recently saw it in “The Wedding” and we’ve seen it in many more movies before that, the quintessential “inter-tribal marriage” storyline. In this one Ada and Dapo meet and fall in love and after deciding to get married, [...]
