Oscar Heman-Ackah, a Ghanaian-Nigerian music executive and creative entrepreneur, makes his feature film directorial debut with a political music drama, Finding Messiah. Finding Messiah revolves around the fictional nation of The Republic of Zambay, [...]
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 [...]
Journey of Tears has the appeal of a family home video, it starts off with a family and the story is generally family oriented, until it really isn’t. It tells the story of a not very average family living in a not very average family situation. A [...]
Champions of our time is a movie that threads on new grounds by exploring something different for a change, something substantial, and something other than the usual. It tells the story of a young girl in a wheelchair attempting to participate in an [...]
Diamond Kingdom is probably one of Frank Artus’ best performances, at least the first part was, and this coming from a staunch anti-Artus advocate – if there’s such a thing. The movie, as summarized by the Igwe character in this movie, [...]
The movie “United Kingdom” tells the overbeaten story of a king who has come to power by chance and used diabolical means to secure his throne. It throws in what is arguably an original twist in that he wants his son to take over the throne [...]
Chioma Chukwuka used to be my favourite actress back in the day but then she fell from grace after a particularly lip curling film( it involved corpse molesting) but she is redeeming herself bit by bit starting from this movie. It challenged her and in [...]
It is so aggravating to think that after so many years of cinema, especially of making the same movies over and over again, we still haven’t perfected the act of destroying a villain at the end of the movie. It’s 2013 and forgive me for [...]
