Written and directed by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, FARMING is an upcoming movie starring Kate Beckinsale, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Genevieve Nnaji and many others. Based on the writer/director’s childhood, FARMING tells story of a [...]
While the rest of the industry abandons the actors of old, she casts Jemima Osunde right beside Kanayo O. Kanayo. While all the movies in “new nollywood” are not just set in Lagos but in the poshest parts of the island, she sets the film in [...]
Today I fell for the advertising and was prepared to 'Netflix & Chill' to the latest nollywood movie on the world renowned streaming site, Netflix. I was thrilled. It's Genevieve's first production and well... just like everyone else, I love Genny. Not to [...]
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 [...]
It is about time!!! I can honestly say that I have fasted, prayed, and tithed for this movie to come out. I have bribed, begged and grovelled to get this movie and finally, after seeing the movie, I am elated that my efforts were not in vain. This is one [...]
After three years of waiting, I finally got to see the long-time champion of over-hyped movies in Nollywood history, The Mirror Boy. After that long of a wait, and not necessarily even taking that wait period into consideration, I am disappointed to say [...]
The highlight of the entire movie had to be, without a doubt, the ‘electric slide’ dance by the cast and crew. The moment was of course reminiscent of Emem Isong’s “Reloaded” from five years ago. The only difference is that [...]
Was able to touch on everything from racism to social stigma associated with rape victims to the conflicts in the Northern parts of Nigeria between the Igbos and the Hausas to illegal immigration to the pursuit of the American dream to the force of one's [...]
