COMING SOON: Namaste Wahala
Pegged as the first Nollywood/Bollywood collaboration, Namaste Wahala is an upcoming film directed by Hamisha Daryani Ahuja starring Ruslaan Mumtaz and Ini Dima-Okojie in the lead roles. The film also...
View ArticleBlue
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 –...
View ArticleOche’s Secret
Oche’s Secret tries to pull at your heart string with that old school love kind of romance. It even pulls in some old nollywood actors – Chiege Alisigwe – and starts off with a scene of an older...
View ArticleA Thousand Ways To Break A Cheating Man
Asides from having one of the longest movie titles in the history of nollywood, there a few other stand out things about A Thousand Ways to Break A Cheating Man (which I will henceforth refer to as ‘a...
View Article’76
Someone once told me that every story is a love story, and in no place has that point been made as clearly as in Izu Ojukwu’s ‘76 (formerly “Lions of 76”). Izu takes a military story and exposes it...
View ArticleGrey
So if you happen to be stuck at home like the rest of us in this Coronavirus pandemic season and are in search of a love story to transport you out of your current reality then search no more – because...
View ArticleGold Statue
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...
View ArticleHell Cat
The biggest budget items in this movie are 1) Matilda’s closet and 2) Glassware. Disclaimer: no glassware was spared in the making of this movie. Hell Cat is the story of a newlywed couple – Ochukwu...
View ArticleSlay Queen
It’s interesting to watch a film in this day and age where there is a clear cut “bad/wayward” character contrasted against a clear cut “good/wifely” character. It’s especially interesting because the...
View ArticleHeaven’s Hell
One of the greatest challenges that Heaven’s Hell faces right from the door, is the task of selling a movie that was shot in 2013 to an audience in 2019. Granted, a good story transcends time, however,...
View ArticleLove Is War
It’s always an experience watching Omoni Oboli films. They are almost a genre unto themselves. One in which no one else can quite fit. Love Is War is the story of a happy couple who use their own hands...
View ArticleWhat Goes Around Comes Around In the Short Film “Fishbone”
FISHBONE is a short film that basically takes a microscope to focus in on one of the many ways that drug counterfeiting in our society is harmful to the many. It follows an inspector – Daniel Etim...
View ArticleVoid
Watching this movie had me wondering one major thing: at what point does the mumu transcend from love to straight up foolishness? Void is the story of a heartbroken widower (Frederick Leonard as...
View ArticleThe Delivery Boy
The Delivery Boy is a great example of taking the least amount of resources and making the absolute most out of it. In this film, a suicide bomber and a prostitute find themselves in an unlikely...
View Article“Living In Bondage: Breaking Free” Set to Release On Netflix
After a record breaking run at the box office starting in November of 2019, the follow up to what’s highly regarded as the first nollywood movie is finally making it’s streaming debut. The remake of...
View ArticleLiving In Bondage – Breaking Free
If there’s one thing old nollywood has over new nollywood everyday – and twice on Sundays – it’s storytelling. And this 2019, sequel to the nollywood classic “Living In Bondage” brings in some of that...
View ArticleMuna
Before we even start the review of this movie, let’s get a few things out of the way first. We applaud all the good intentions and the incredible aspirations that gathered together in making this...
View ArticleMerry Men 2 – Another Mission
Say what you will but Merry Men 2 was actually a much more palatable film than it’s prequel, “Merry Men: The Real Yoruba Demons” In this sequel, the merry men have hung up their hats and have been...
View ArticleYoung Nigerians Sit And Talk About Their History in the Documentary “No...
“…Because the main perpetrators of this war are still alive. Are they going to allow these people to come and screen a movie painting them in a bad light?” “We don’t have a foundation of historical...
View Article4th Republic
4th Republic is a movie that you’ve seen many times but is still somehow different. It follows the events after a governorship election night in the fictional ‘Confluence State’. There are only two...
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