Kemi Adetiba’s “King of Boys” is a three hour visual experience in the guise of a movie. In 3 hours it manages to dismantle many nollywood tropes and presuppositions while engaging the audience in a way that some 15 minute short films [...]
You know the movie “Taken” where Liam Neeson gives the greatest tough guy speech in cinematic history? The “I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want…I don’t have money but I have a particular set of skills…if you don’t [...]
There is a scene early in this movie where the main character Tinuke Badmus (Layole Oyatogun) asks the police officer interrogating her, “What do you want to know, the truth or a lie?”. I suspect the writers of the movie intended it to be a profound [...]
We have heard of character driven movies and we have also heard of plot driven movies, well this movie felt like an art driven movie. In Tatu, a mother gives birth to a child who is destined to give her life up for her people on her 21st birthday. To [...]
The smartest film industries exalt the writers. Always above the actors and sometimes above everyone else, and for good reason too. It’s almost embarassing (in fact, it is embarrassing) that it took me this long to see this movie and that I needed [...]
I spent a significant portion of my time, while watching this movie, rehashing the rating for the predictability criteria because that’s how many surprises there were at one point. But before we get into that, let’s go over the movie. Shoot to [...]
The run time of the movie is about 94 minutes. For 60 whole minutes (1 whole hour) things are just happening. Back forth and center. No tangible plot. Drama? E no dey? Romance nko? Nothing. And I am not going to lie, I nearly gave up on this movie in the [...]
It's easy to understand why this movie earned so many laurels. It poses as a war thriller but it really is (and I know you're getting tired of hearing me say this by now) an undercover love story. An undercover love story with one heck of an annoying [...]
