Coming from Insanity (CFI) is the story of a young Kossi (Gabriel Afolayan) who was illegally transplanted from his home country, Togo, and finds himself in the role of a slave to a rich Lagos family. Many years later, Kossi has grown into a young man who [...]
There are heavy movies that explore some sort of deep and complicated aspect of the human nature but still manage to be interesting. Unfortunately Blue is not one of them. Blue follows a young lady – Somto – who at first glance seems quite [...]
The Set Up is a story of two young ladies – Chike and Grace – but mostly about Chike. Chike’s father was a killer in his time and after he passed she became a drug dealer. It started off as an attempt to pay back money which she used to [...]
In one of the first of what is beginning to look like a new Kunle Afolayan trend, singer Chidinma Ekile makes her acting debut in “The Bridge” alongside Demola Adedoyin. The movie is the story of two intertribal lovers – Dare and Stella [...]
The gift nollywood gave me for Christmas last year was the shot in the GIF below. That was not a fall. That was not an act. That was a dance! That singular scene negated so much concern and disbelief I had for the industry in six small seconds. Thank you [...]
A thing that still stumps me sometimes is how a movie can have all the elements of greatness – performance, picture, art, music and even great intentions – but still manage to fall flat on its face. In Line is an atypical story of a husband [...]
NIGERIAN PRINCE is the debut feature film from writer-director Faraday Okoro. Okoro was a winner of $1 Million in AT&T’s Untold Stories competition in 2017 and had his film feature in the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. The film is executive produced by [...]
If you follow us in any shape or form (either on this blog or on twitter), then you know how we feel about “new nollywood’s” obsession with the ‘ensemble cast’ and it’s overuse in our cinema. However after seeing this [...]
