Who doesn’t love a good reunion movie? It embodies everything you want in a feel good film. There’s family, there’s just enough conflict, there’s a guarantee of a happy ending, and depending on who’s making it there might a [...]
The stories that stay with us as movie viewers are not necessarily the grandest ones but the ones that pull us in and hold us captive. Breaded Life does just that. Breaded Life is the story of Sunmi (Timini Egbuson) a spoilt twenty something year old [...]
Sugar Rush is that new nollywood formula at its most potent: high tech gadgets plus famous celebrities plus comedy equals blockbuster. At it’s frame, it’s the story of the Sugar sisters, Susie (Adesua Etomi), Sola (Bisola Aiyeola) and Bola [...]
The beloved Ndani TV webseries is back with new issues, new drama and new conflicts for our favorite characters. Last we saw Tiwalade in Season 5, she was getting married to the love of her life – Mide Macaulay, her sister – Shalewa – [...]
The thing I don’t get about the average nollywood comedy movie is when the decision was made that the only recipe for comedy must include a lack of intelligence. Makate Must Sell is such a forced attempt to wring out any leftover revenue from an [...]
The Bling Lagosians – a movie about the 1% of the 1%. If you somehow manage to look past the economic repercussions included in that phrase (I mean the suggestion that in a country where a majority of the people live on less than a dollar a day, [...]
In Biodun Stephen’s The Becoming of Obim (TBOO), a thirteen year old Victoria gets closer to her mysterious neighbor, Muna, while she is dealing with her mother’s death and helping her gutted father recover emotionally as well. As the story [...]
When you go to see a movie in a cinema, you can only really feel one of two things. You either (a) feel fortunate that you saw the movie because it was good (and before the internet gave you its entire plot) or (b) you feel unfortunate that you left your [...]
