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Kasala
May 29, 2018

“Kasala” starts modestly but builds into a fantastic character study of Nigerian millennial youth

There’s been so much talk about the upcoming indie film Kasala, which grandly premiered in Paris at the Nollywood Film Festival in April. Director Ema Edosio has described her film as “not your typical Nollywood story” and believing strongly that we have evolved past slapstick comedies and mushy love stories. First and foremost, Kasala is... Read More
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Foreigner's God
May 21, 2018

“Foreigner’s God” is easily the most ambitious project to come out of Nollywood this year

Foreigner’s God, the period piece from director Ifan Ifeanyi Michael, hasn’t even been released yet. The film is still in the middle of its press cycle, with copious amounts of posters released and a garden-themed Instagram teaser gloriously introducing its female cast. I honestly think we are supposed to take this seriously. Ihe di woro... Read More
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Boss of all bosses
May 21, 2018

“Boss Of All Bosses” explores Naija’s corporate world with this new, funny trailer

In another edition of Nollywood copies Hollywood, I present to you the trailer of Ike Nnaebue’s upcoming comedy Boss Of All Bosses. The 2-minute-plus trailer is corporate satire meets absurdist hilarity, and has similar thematic beats with Seth Gordon’s 2011 black comedy Horrible Bosses. What more can I say? Nollywood is running out of ideas... Read More
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Maleficent
May 13, 2018

“Maleficent 2” is definitely happening and Chiwetel Ejiofor is in talks to star in the sequel

After starring in 2016’s Doctor Strange, it seems Chiwetel Ejiofor is becoming comfortably entrenched within the Disney family. Last year, news circulated about the Oscar nominee playing the villainous Scar in Disney’s upcoming live-action reboot of The Lion King. Currently, Ejiofor is in discussions to appear in the live-action fantasy sequel Maleficent 2. According to... Read More
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Danai
May 8, 2018

From “The Walking Dead” to Marvel’s “Black Panther”: Why Dana Gurira should play more action roles

When Black Panther star Danai Gurira was five-years-old, her parents moved her from Grinnell, Iowa to their homeland of Harare, Zimbabwe – a bustling, urban city over two-and-a-half-thousand times bigger than the rural former factory town where she was born. She looked like a local girl, but spoke like a kid from the Midwestern plains.... Read More
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Alexandra
April 25, 2018

Hollywood meets Nollywood! Vivica Fox, Joseph Benjamin, Freda Steffl, Ada Ameh, Rob Hays and others star in new film “Alexandra

The last half decade has given us quite a number of Hollywood meets Nollywood movies, from Tobi (2012), Turning Point (2014) to Tempting Fate (2015). Still, though, these movies don’t necessarily have the best of stories or acting quality. Maybe with Alexandra, the newest installment in this sub-genre, we will finally get a cross-the-pond pairing worth our... Read More
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April 7, 2018

Film Review: New Money is awkward, clumsy

Some would argue that if ever there was such a thing as the Nigerian Dream, unmerited favour would come closest to capturing this lofty ideal. And why not? In Nigeria, equal opportunity is a mirage, inclusion is a pipe dream. And as for that often repeated line about finding strength in diversity? Surely only politicians... Read More
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Date Night
March 30, 2018

This trailer for “Date Night” is the stuff psychological thrillers are made of

Okay. So I’m a little excited about the forthcoming Date Night, partly because it’s a piece of filmmaking that derails from the Nollywood usual in comedies and rom-coms. Or maybe because I like women doing bad stuff. At least unintentionally, as in the 2017 film Rough Night, which sees Scarlett Johansson and her girlfriends display... Read More
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Royal hibiscus hotel
March 28, 2018

[The Film Blog] Still haven’t seen the Royal Hibiscus Hotel? Wait till March 30 to stream on Amazon Prime Video

EbonyLife Films just announced that their much-talked-about, romantic comedy The Royal Hibiscus Hotel will be available on streaming platform Amazon Prime Video, on March 30. So now, you really don’t have an excuse. Since opening in cinemas on February 9, and with heavy media promotion heralding it, The Royal Hibiscus Hotel is extending its box... Read More
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Disguise
March 12, 2018

Film Review: Disguise is so bad, you will want your time (and money) back

What do men want? What do women want? These two, seemingly innocuous questions have bothered the great thinkers for the longest of times. Unfortunately, not one of them has been able to come up with satisfactory answers. In Disguise, the latest embarrassment to come out of the Desmond Elliot factory of third rate products, Theophilus... Read More
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March 10, 2018

#YNaijaEssays: The Future of Film in Nigeria is female

It was obvious from the very first promo images that the Wedding Party was going to be big. Everything about the film seemed big, from the extravagant bejewelled crown a keening Adesua Etomi wore in the promo pictures, to the outsize fame of Banky W finally making the jump from music to film. The Wedding... Read More
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March 8, 2018

8th iRepresent International Documentary Film Festival holds in Lagos this March

March 22-25, documentary filmmakers and enthusiasts from around Africa and parts of Europe and the West will converge in Lagos for the 2018 edition of the yearly I-Rep International Documentary Film Festival. Produced by the Foundation for the Development of Documentary Film Festival in Africa, the festival will be held at its traditional home, Freedom... Read More
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Sope Aluko
March 1, 2018

#YNaijaInterview: ‘’We knew we were doing something above and beyond ourselves’’- Black Panther star, Sope Aluko speaks with YNaija

Nigerian actress, Sope Aluko has been working in Hollywood for a number of years now, scoring recurring roles in television series like Army Wives and Graceland. She scored her biggest audience this month with Black Panther, the Marvel film that is currently breaking box office records and inspiring countless think pieces across the globe. YNaija... Read More
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Africa Magic, Ramsey Nouah
March 1, 2018

[The Film Blog] How Africa Magic gave Nollywood a bad image

Long before streaming became such a huge part of our culture, access to Nollywood films mostly ran on an efficient system of home video rentals. It was a subscriber community immersed in the zeitgeist, propelling an ecosystem of filmmakers, Nollywood-minded businesses, and movie lovers. Films came in black, chunky VHS cassettes: the 1992 Chris Obi-Rapu-directed... Read More
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Falz
February 27, 2018

[The Film Blog] This March, Falz will be Invading Cinemas with “Falz Experience The Movie”

Falz’s debut, late-year concert The Falz Experience might have gone, but its memory is still reverberating through pop culture, and the singer is trying to capitalise on this zeitgeist by repackaging the experience now for cinema. The well-attended, successful concert had a compelling opening sequence that depicted the rapper split across multiple personalities – the... Read More
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Nollywood
February 23, 2018

#Rotterdam2018: ‘Beyond Nollywood’ and the challenge of inclusion

At this point in its evolution, the Nollywood aesthetic is pretty much defined. Extremely low budgets and limited technical know-how meld to present sets that are claustrophobic, scenes that are heavy on dialogue, overly histrionic actors and films that mostly go straight to video. In spite of these limitations, Nollywood, as the Nigerian film industry... Read More
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Ojukokoro
February 19, 2018

[The Film Blog] Catch the New York Premiere of Dare Olaitan’s Ojukokoro at the Metrograph on April 13

If you will be in New York before April 13 and looking for fun things to do, I suggest you see a movie. But not just anyone: Dare Olaitan’s impressive, 2017 crime heist comedy film Ojukokoro (Greed) has been scheduled to show at the Metrograph, New York’s awesome indie cinemaplex, according to this glowing GQ... Read More
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Azougue Nazare
February 17, 2018

#Rotterdam2018: Azougue Nazare review; Love and dance in sugarcane country

A few days ago, while speaking at a cultural event in Paris, France, prominent Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie got into trouble with the intelligentsia community when her irritable answer to a rambling question directed her way by a guest was read as a smug dismissal of post-colonial theory. “I think it’s something that professors... Read More
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Rotterdam
February 17, 2018

#Rotterdam2018: The Shape of Water, Balekempa, Respeto… See the 10 most notable films from the IFFR

To cover the International Film Festival, Rotterdam is to be swamped with the sheer number of films screening in wide reaching, diverse categories. Not to mention the various sidebar events and cultural attractions going on at the same time. This is a list of 10 of the most notable films we saw at the festival.... Read More
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Pan AFrican
February 14, 2018

[The Film Blog] These Are the Films that Have Captured our Hearts at the Pan African Film and Arts Festival

This year’s Pan African Film and Arts Festival (PAFF) is currently underway at the Balwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, Los Angeles, California. The 26th edition kicked off February 8, with a slate featuring over 100 fine visual artists and craftspeople from the U.S., Africa, South America, Europe, the South Pacific and Canada. And over 125 new... Read More
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Royal Hibiscus Hotel
February 13, 2018

Film Review: The Royal Hibiscus Hotel is every Lagosian IJGB fantasy come to life

Let us just get it out of the way. The Royal Hibiscus Hotel, the latest project from EbonyLife films is a romantic comedy. It isn’t deep, does not grapple with major life issues and has no pretensions to paying service to anything serious beyond securing a happily-ever-after ending for its lead character, Ope Adeniyi. Better... Read More
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