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 [...]
Within certain crowds last year, Sylvia was all the rage and for the first time in a while, it was worth the rave. Sylvia is a fantasy based thriller about a young man who grows up with a mysterious girl whom he meets with at night. As the tag line of [...]
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 [...]
They said nothing else but comedy can sell in Nigeria. So the makers of “Ojukokoro” made a comedy. Except they made a comedy like we have never seen before. Ojukokoro (Greed) is set up to look like a story about a series of unfortunate events [...]
If you follow us in any shape or form (either on this blog or on twitter), then you know how we feel about “new nollywood’s” obsession with the ‘ensemble cast’ and it’s overuse in our cinema. However after seeing this [...]
One big question we ask when reviewing cinema releases is “can this movie stand on its own when surrounded by movies from Iran, America, France, Great Britain, India, etc?” or is it just “good… for a nollywood movie?”. [...]
In the first few minutes of “The Arbitration” the audience is introduced to the central premise of this film – a powerful boss uses his position to coerce an employee into having sex with him. At this point I began to think, “oh [...]
After a while I had to start checking myself in order to contain my excitement. In more advanced industries, the things that wowed me in this movie would be taken for granted, but the fact that someone (in our very own industry) took the time to create [...]
