There’s just something about these family movies. They have a way of keeping you seated for the length of the movie – when done right – even though you knew at the start of the movie exactly how it was going to end, and for some of them [...]
Nollywood movies can be described as sadness porn, they do all they can to make you weep and add a nice happy ending but only after you have sacrificed salty water upon the altar. With films like this I find it hard to disagree. That’s not necessarily a [...]
Apaye was a pleasant surprise. What did I expect from the movie? Absolutely nothing because I have stopped expecting anything from movies. But even at that, I never would have guessed that I would end up liking it as much as I did. Apaye tells the story [...]
Same people, same soundtrack, same spelling mistakes, same bad techniques. I could copy and paste my review of ‘Cry of Orphans’ and it would pass. This is the movie that convinced me that the elements I enjoyed in that film came into being despite the [...]
I had gone to see Hoodrush on word of mouth. It’s marketing was almost non-existent. I was skeptical about the movie because I had once seen a musical touted as the first in Nollywood that paraded international stars and boasted of a heavy budget, but I [...]
I’m not really enamoured with this new practice of making viewers wait days before releasing a direct sequel. I can understand the reason for the decision but all it does is make the movie appear disjointed. Instead of judging the movie as a whole, in [...]
This movie is the perfect antithesis to “A Night with the King“. It is everything that movie wasn’t, coherent, interesting and novel.It does the evil Queen thing right and more. These people knew what they were doing and they did it well. [...]
Sometimes it is just better for a movie to be a home video as opposed to a cinema release especially when it comes to the reviews. The simple fact that you are a cinematic release holds you to higher standards. And even though your movie might have been [...]
