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 [...]
So far AY has given us 30 days in Atlanta, A Trip to Jamaica and now 10 Days in Sun City. This is the easiest way I could come up with to explain 10 days in Sun City. You remember that hugely successful 2017 DJ Khaled song “I’m the one” that basically [...]
A thing that still stumps me sometimes is how a movie can have all the elements of greatness – performance, picture, art, music and even great intentions – but still manage to fall flat on its face. In Line is an atypical story of a husband [...]
The first part was a party and the second part is like a vacation that most of us cannot afford. The Wedding Party 2: Destination Dubai is the second installment of the ELFIKE Collective produced movie “The Wedding Party” from 2016. In this [...]
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 [...]
Something Wicked was one very aspirational thriller. It is about a widow named Hauwa and her family who suddenly take on a new family member named Abel, and then strange things begin to happen around them. Abel is Hauwa’s nephew who has come from [...]
Alright, so let’s get this out of the way immediately. HANDS UP if you saw this movie/the trailer and immediately thought it was a Nollywood remake of Tyler Perry’s “Why Did I Get Married?” (or should I say another one of [...]
Sometimes you just watch so many of your movies on irokotv and you assume that the rest of the world is held to the same quality standards… this was my reality check. Tears for Cindy is “supposed to be” about two headstrong celebrities [...]
