Nneka My Daughter is the story of a family with two wives where the husband married the second wife while seeking a male child. Many years later, all the children have grown up and Nneka, his first daughter from his first wife, is resolute to turn the [...]
It is becoming more and more of a struggle to find an Asaba movie that is light on formula, high on story and high on performance (like "Native Son" or "Heart of a fighter"). Now, most movies are just high on formula, low on story and mediocre on performance.
With a title like that, I would not blame anyone for overlooking this movie. But if you are anything like me and occasionally crave that pure unadulterated village storylines, then maybe you might want to reconsider. Love Shooter is the story of Ogechukwu [...]
I have talked long and hard about suffering porn. Nollywood just churns out these films although there has been a new crop of interesting twists on the first classics. In that way the familiar storylines that we accord to these types of movies are being [...]
I stumbled on Face of Sorrow whilst looking for a family-type movie. It had all the tell-tale signs of potential success in that genre: a family unit, a village champion villain, and a main protagonist girl to cry on cue. I got most of what I was [...]
This movie is the perfect antithesis to “A Night with the King“. It is everything that movie wasn’t, coherent, interesting and novel.It does the evil Queen thing right and more. These people knew what they were doing and they did it well. [...]
Restless Soul is an appealing movie that would have been even more appealing if they knew what they were doing. The movie tells the story of a young boy from a poor home who goes on to become an apprentice for a wealthy man in the city. Whilst there, he [...]
In the TV series 24, the story is written in a way that each episode is one hour in the characters’ lives. Looking at the synopsis of this movie, I felt excited and intrigued. A diva’s life, surely it will be juicy and interesting. How wrong I was. This [...]
