Made In Heaven is the latest installment in nollywood’s series of ‘I see what you were going for but it didn’t quite work out for you’ movies. The story follows Richard (Blossom Chukwujekwu), a nerdy and awkward romantic who is [...]
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 [...]
DOD is an upcoming family adventure film written and directed by Akay Mason and Abosi Ogbo. The film stars Ini Dima-Okojie, Deyemi Okanlawon, Broda Shaggi, Jide Kosoko, Denola Grey, Olumide Oworu, Ireti Doyle, Blossom Chukwujekwu, Toyin Abraham, Norbert [...]
It’s always an experience watching Omoni Oboli films. They are almost a genre unto themselves. One in which no one else can quite fit. Love Is War is the story of a happy couple who use their own hands to add ‘palava’ to their lives when [...]
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, [...]
Merry Men: The Real Yoruba Demons is an hour and forty six minute movie that is an hour and forty six minutes too long. The movie follows a group of rogue bandits in Abuja (or Lagos?) who have taken it upon themselves to be the robin-hoods of their [...]
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 [...]
Ebonylife Film’s “Royal Hibiscus Hotel” is the actual cheese substance that every cheesy romance is made of. In Royal Hibiscus Hotel (RHH), Opeoluwa (played by Zainab Balogun), a highly trained yet struggling chef in London, decides to [...]
