There is always a certain degree of excitement for me before I hit play on an English nollywood movie with a big Yoruba movie star in it. This is mostly because I don’t watch too many Yoruba movies so I get excited at the opportunity to see what [...]
Ok, ok! This genre is getting old. I get it now. It's a formula that works. It's easy to watch ("when I say easy to watch I mean that it's in a genre that doesn't pose too many questions or ruffle many feathers). At the end of the movie, everyone's [...]
If you've seen the trailer, you already know the premise of this movie (if you haven't then click on the next tab and try and return your LASTMA card abeg): a guy meets his long lost love, tries to get her number but she leaves out three digits in the [...]
Iyore (The Return) is really a love story in disguise as an epic. It is the story of two lovers who cannot be together for varying reasons at varying times. Of course, the fact that this love story has happened time and time again in history is not [...]
"Somewhere down the line" is the story of a couple unable to birth their own child who eventually resort to surrogacy. Thankfully, this goes well and they end up with a beautiful baby girl who they revolve their world around. Twenty-one years later, the [...]
A Place in the Stars is an upcoming movie produced and directed by Steve Gukas and written by Ita Hozaife and J.K. Amalou. The movie stars Gideon Okeke and Segun Arinze alongside Amerjit Deu, Mathilda Obaseki, Ladi Alpha, Yemi Blaq, Femi Branch, Dejumo [...]
I am sick and tired of watching of four parts of a movie , all an hour. Sick and tired. Surely the first mark of a sophisticated film is that it has only one part. No matter how bad a film, that the filmmakers have condensed it into one part gives it a [...]
Mrs. Somebody's success arises from the fact that the story is one that most Nigerian ladies are much too familiar with. It's appeal for the hopeless romantic, such as myself, is in how unabated and shamelessly it sticks to the original romance formula. [...]
