King of Thieves is an epic thriller and a loose retelling of a Yoruba Folklore. It tells the story of Agesinkole (Femi Adebayo), a thief that terrorizes the fictional land of Ajeromi during the reign of Oba Adegbite (Odunlade Adekola). The story starts in [...]
I hit play on The Therapist expecting to be dragged through two hours of an emotional ordeal about the trials of abused women and the struggle of a newly divorced woman to make her way through society. Thankfully and surprisingly, that’s actually [...]
Oh what a monumental waste of resources! In Foreigner’s God, Pepper, an European/American documentarian, journeys to the village of Umuuchu in Eastern Nigeria during colonial times in an effort to do research for a documentary he’s planning on [...]
In an era of remakes like “Living In Bondage” and “Nneka the Pretty Serpent” with some remakes being above the mark while others not even recognizes that a mark exists, it might bring you joy to realize that the Netflix Limited [...]
At the end of the day, repeated tests will continue to prove that good soup requires a combination of good ingredients, good utensils and a good chef. Not one without the other. Diamonds In The Sky (DITS) is a prime example of this. Diamonds In The Sky [...]
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 [...]
The movie, Nimbe, might have just as well been called “the degeneration of the Nigerian Youth”, as it’s mostly an expose on the process therein. Nimbe follows the story of its titular character (Chimezie Imo), a shy secondary school [...]
I would really love to know how the idea for this film was conceived. Did you see all the digging in Gold Statue and think, “oh I can do that better”? Or did you see Money Heist and figure that you wanted to re-do it, Naija style. Whatever the [...]
