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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This movie is a bundle of surprises, and even though the trailer seems a bit reminiscent of the 2012 flick "The Volunteers", it is vastly different and much more entertaining. The movie has some strong actors carrying it with splendid performances across [...]
The story is set in 1960 Nigeria amidst all the excitement and confusion of the upcoming independence. The main storyline is about a series of murders going on in the town of Akote. In this town, there have been recent killings of young virgin girls and [...]
I’ve made it no secret thus far that if there’s any genre of movies I can’t stand it’s comedies. Well, here’s another genre that I can’t stand but for a completely different reason (*clears throat* I have no liver) [...]
I started this movie and it said, directed by... KUNLE AFOLAYAN. Produced by... KUNLE AFOLAYAN. Starring... KUNLE AFOLAYAN. I'm thinking "uh oh. There goes a potentially good movie"
