King of Thieves is an epic thriller and a loose retelling of a Yoruba Folklore. It tells the story of Agesinkole (Femi Adebayo), a thief that terrorizes the fictional land of Ajeromi during the reign of Oba Adegbite (Odunlade Adekola). The story starts in [...]
Oh what a monumental waste of resources! In Foreigner’s God, Pepper, an European/American documentarian, journeys to the village of Umuuchu in Eastern Nigeria during colonial times in an effort to do research for a documentary he’s planning on [...]
Oche’s Secret tries to pull at your heart string with that old school love kind of romance. It even pulls in some old nollywood actors – Chiege Alisigwe – and starts off with a scene of an older married couple still doing tingo tingo in [...]
Zena is like the first prize project of a third grade class that decides to compete with the work of university level students. It’s best in class but only in its own class. It’s an ambitious project that gets stifled by the usual culprits [...]
The Lost Heir is a “Tales by Moonlight”-feeling-epic story about a Prince who was abducted and left for dead after birth. However, many years later when his father – the king – passes, he is brought back to the fore-front and it is [...]
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 [...]
It is very rare that I wish a six part movie could go on for longer but I did. Kept looking at the amount of parts left and wishing it was longer. This was a well-crafted, well told and very creative story. Easily going to be in my top ten of the year.
Iyore (The Return) is really a love story in disguise as an epic. It is the story of two lovers who cannot be together for varying reasons at varying times. Of course, the fact that this love story has happened time and time again in history is not [...]
