Tag: The Film Blog
[The Film Blog] The Accidental Spy may be the worst thing AY has ever done
Not to be confused with the 2001 Jackie Chan led Hong Kong film, The Accidental Spy, produced by the duo ...
Ufuoma McDermott’s “Christmas is Coming” desperately needs a christmas miracle of its own
Just in time for the festive season, Ufuoma McDermott jumps into the actress/producer/director fray with her first film in at ...
The Film Blog: Celebrity Marriage isn’t as bad as you feared. It is worse.
Someone somewhere in Nollywoodland assumed that pairing Toyin Abraham and Odunlade Adekola would make for sensational viewing. They probably fell ...
Film Review: Forget the title, Couple’s Award is a pleasant surprise
by Wilfred Okiche To market Couple’s Award, a surprisingly decent, if linear domestic drama about the toll that the pressures ...
The Film Blog: Jacurb! Tonto Dikeh is back on our screens
There are few Nigerian actresses as iconic as Tonto Dikeh at the peak of her fame. During the early 2010’s, ...
The Film Blog: Lesley Nneka Arimah’s stories are coming to a big screen near you
Unless you’ve been living under a rock or you’re one of those people who don’t ‘like books’, then you’ve probably ...
The Film Blog: Sola Sobowale and Rita Dominic are cooking something, In case of Incasity
If nothing, the title has us in stitches already. In case of Incasity is another movie that centres on the ...
The Film Blog: Hey God! This one that OC Ukeje has released a music video
Calm down, guys! It’s nothing like the type of music the ‘Genevieves’, ‘Omotolas’ and ‘Tontos’ of this world blessed us ...
The Film Blog: 8 African films are contending for the Foreign Language Oscar. Not one is Nigerian
We’re not sure how exactly we feel about this – disappointed, broken-hearted or upbeat about the near future. Yes, the ...
The Film Blog: Turn on the news, you’re likely to catch another episode of domestic violence
It is high time Africans began to have conversations about violence and women’s rights until the messaging starts to sink ...
Film review: Tatu is visually appealing, structurally handicapped
by Wilfred Okiche As Nollywood productions go, the ELFIKE team (consisting of EbonyLife films, FilmOne distribution, Inkblot and Koga studios) ...
[The Film Blog] These two short films have important messages on inclusion
As the United States of America continues to confront its legacy of racism and inequality, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has its ...
The Film Blog: Sango gets the film treatment with Dawn of Thunder
Komotion Studios with a $400 dollar budget and two weeks of work has helped move Yoruba culture forward for the ...
[The Film Blog] It is Reset for Lights Camera Africa film festival
For many years, Nollywood has been plagued with bad movies. Dingy projects filmed in terribly lit rooms, by a cinematographer ...
[The Film Blog] Two Nigerian movies are going to the Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto film festival is one of the best and diverse film festivals in the world. Since its establishment in ...
The Film Blog: AFRIFF and Ford Foundation are helping to increase female participation in Nollywood
On the 9th of August, 20 young filmmakers gathered on the 9th floor of the CBC Towers in Lekki. They ...
[The Film Blog] My Wife & I is premiering today and Beverly Naya…
Forgive us, we usually don’t use words like ‘slay’ etc. But in this one case, biko try and h-understand. She ...
[The Film Blog]: These guys captured the beauty of the music in Banana Island Ghost
They totally capture how we feel about the music. We came out of the cinemas looking for everything. Even Reekado ...
[The Film Blog]: Just in case you have not seen the Banana Island Ghost special music video
So, since we watched Banana Island Ghost (BIG) this week and totally adored it, we declare this BIG week. And ...
The Film Blog: Ashey, Frank Donga is on a roll
As per, you should know that ‘ashey’, is the trademark of the Frank Donga persona when he is stuck. He ...
The Film Blog: Please epp… why do movies take so long after premiere to open?
So we have spent hours on Google asking this question, and we lobbed it to some of our people in ...
The Film Blog: The full video of the interview that got Aunty Ronke mad this morning
This is the headline from Broadway Africa TV that led to Yoruba-movie actress, Ronke Oshodi-Oke’s hysterics this morning: “I Can’t ...
The Film Blog: We swear, you just have to watch this 5-min video of Ronke Oshodi-Oke
That switch from calm to anger. Was there a director behind the scene? She asked us ‘internet people’ to post ...
The Lights Camera Africa!!! 2017 Film Festival ‘RESET’
What is becoming one of the continent’s landmark cultural events, the Lights Camera Africa!!! Film Festival is returning in 2017 ...
The Film Blog: Tribute to Adebayo Faleti shows that Yemi Osinbajo has sense
Nigerian poet, journalist, writer and actor Adebayo Faleti is dead. He will be laid to rest on the 8th of ...
The Film Blog: Is Banana Island Ghost the most anticipated movie after Isoken?
Short answer: yes. Post the lavish premiere two Sundays ago, that’s all anybody can talk about, despite the fact that ...
The Film Blog: We now have a date for the Lights Camera Africa!!! 2017 Film Festival
29 September to 1 October 2017. Ugoma Adegoke, who is curator of one of the more thoughtful seventh edition of the ...
The Film Blog: Hakkunde is premiering this weekend. Let’s tell you why we are excited.
The trailer is world class. There is Frank Donga (Kunle Idowu). It is produced by the brilliant AMVCA-winning Oluseyi Asurf, ...
[The Film Blog]: How Isoken is still absolutely killing it at the cinemas
These scenting times are from the Silverbird Cinemas at the Galleria, also known as the most unattractive and least subscribed ...
The Film Blog Thread: So this is what people are saying about ’10 days in Sun City’
AY Makun’s third instalment of the Akpos franchise opened in Cinemas across Nigeria from the 23rd of June. It’s been ...
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