The first set of scenes in Taiwo Egunjobi’s latest offering, A Green Fever, sets the stage for an interesting yet haunting outing. I have been a follower of the filmmaker since before the days of his first feature film In Ibadan, and there’s a sense of [...]
La Femme Anjola: Mildred Okwo’s Neo-Noir Drama is Almost Perfect Many times, I’ve witnessed Nollywood filmmakers attempting to impose foreign elements and tropes onto Nigerian stories. Unfortunately, the results are often catastrophic, if not [...]
In ‘The Black Book,’ Paul Edima (Richard Mofe-Damijo – RMD), now retired and seeking redemption, enjoys a simple life with his son (Olumide Oworu). However, when the Nigerian police unjustly target and frame his son as a criminal, [...]
Collision Course is truly a collision of beautiful storytelling and talent! It tells the story of a struggling musician from a wealthy background, Mide (Daniel Etim Effiong), who is trying hard to prove to his father that he can make it without his law [...]
In an era of remakes like “Living In Bondage” and “Nneka the Pretty Serpent” with some remakes being above the mark while others not even recognizes that a mark exists, it might bring you joy to realize that the Netflix Limited [...]
Coming from Insanity (CFI) is the story of a young Kossi (Gabriel Afolayan) who was illegally transplanted from his home country, Togo, and finds himself in the role of a slave to a rich Lagos family. Many years later, Kossi has grown into a young man who [...]
If there’s one thing old nollywood has over new nollywood everyday –Â and twice on Sundays –Â it’s storytelling. And this 2019, sequel to the nollywood classic “Living In Bondage” downloads some of that old charm [...]
The Delivery Boy is a great example of taking the least amount of resources and making the absolute most out of it. In this film, a suicide bomber and a prostitute find themselves in an unlikely collaboration when they are both stuck hiding together in a [...]
