Hazeezat is a surprisingly delightful film about an Alhaji's 'other woman' who falls out of favor with him and finds herself in the home of the man who had a crush on her back in uni. The movie follows her story as she falls in this man and tries to [...]
After watching so many movies you start to take away a few things. You begin to appreciate things that you otherwise would take for granted such as the use of silence instead of persistent music, the unhighlighted drama within a movie or little motifs [...]
After seeing so many movies there are some trends you begin to notice. After a while these recurring trends become less of trends and simply become unoriginal and they happen most often in romantic movies. However, even more annoying than these unoriginal [...]
There's a quote by Kevin Durant used nowadays to describe everything, so allow me to borrow that quote to describe this situation. Whoever had the genius idea to take IK away from those stereotypical playboy/Hausa-man-kaftan-wearing roles that he is [...]
Knocking on Heaven's Door tells the story of a talented female gospel star - played ever so gracefully by the surprising Adesua Etomi - who leads a contradictory life. On the outside she appears like the perfect christian with a perfect life and a perfect [...]
There has never been an Izu Ojukwu movie that I liked or ever thought of as ‘good’. Every Izu Ojukwu movie that I have ever seen till date, I’ve always loved and thought of as great. After seeing Alero’s Symphony, however, I guess [...]
It takes a great filmmaker to bring together a group of average actors and an overly done storyline and present it in a way that leaves the audience in awe. Purple Rose is the story of Annette, played flawlessly by the exquisite Nse Ikpe-Etim, an uptight [...]
From Jane Eyre to Wuthering Heights and even Harry Potter to Twilight, there is never a movie adaptation of a book that does not seem to suffer from what I shall hence refer as “not as good as the book syndrome” and Biyi Bandele’s [...]
