There is nothing I can quite compare to the joy of getting to the end of this movie! And no, it’s not quite what you are thinking. Gold Statue is the story of two friends who, upon hearing of an ancestral undiscovered gold statue in the land of [...]
Have you ever found yourself praying like a sele warrior for the characters in the movie that you are watching? That’s the power of great writing. We can’t really get into the matters at hand in this movie without this… so here’s [...]
They said nothing else but comedy can sell in Nigeria. So the makers of “Ojukokoro” made a comedy. Except they made a comedy like we have never seen before. Ojukokoro (Greed) is set up to look like a story about a series of unfortunate events [...]
Do you remember those health classes from way back when you were in school? Or the PSA (Public safety announcements) you hear on the radio and see on billboards. How did you feel about them? Because that will determine to a large extent how you feel about [...]
It’s an all too familiar experience. When a trailer revs up your excitement, only for you to watch the movie and realize that the trailer was possibly the best part of it all. The movie, The Eve, at first glance, seemed like a more refined and [...]
In Aso-Ebi, five college friends re-unite five years after graduation on the occasion of one of their weddings. Ini, Rose, Tochi, Naomi and Uduak all graduated from college together and had big dreams. Unfortunately, as these things tend to go, not all [...]
Apparently Flirting with fifty is the story of a supposedly elderly woman (she’s only 50 though… apparently we all have different definitions of elderly)Â who falls for and begins to date a young 26 year old. Our cougar, played by Chinyere [...]
It is not a crime to make movie watchers think. Too many movies these days – Bollywood, Nollywood, Hollywood, Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Romance, etc. – all seem to subscribe to this ‘leave your brain behind’ genre of film. [...]
