Tag: Film review

Film Review: ShowMax’s Diiche is a thrilling foray into motives for murder, ogbanje tradition and modern psychology

The unnerving storyline of Diiche sets it apart as a Nigerian drama and psychological thriller series guaranteed to get and stay in your head. The toe-curling and popcorn-spilling jumps that…

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Azougue Nazare

#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…

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Wives on strike

Film Review: Familiar, repetitive… The new Wives on Strike isn’t a revolution

It is hard to go wrong with a movie that is built around a social message. Especially in conservative societies where signalling is key and it is still difficult for…

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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 of waiting for that first baby takes on young couples,…

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Film Review: Excess Luggage has its moments, overstays its welcome

by Wilfred Okiche   The film business is such that it welcomes anyone with cash and determination to spare. Every month, a greenhorn producer rises to the surface with their…

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Film Review: Catch.er is raining men, and clues

by Wilfred Okiche   In CaTCH.eR, the latest crime thriller by Walter ‘Waltbanger’ Taylaur, the director returns to the seedy underworld that made his 2015 feature-length debut, Gbomo Gbomo Express,…

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Film Review: Blessing Egbe’s The Women is ‘Fifty’, but a lot less classy

by Wilfred Okiche     Blessing Egbe has built a career on documenting the ups and downs of being female in Nigeria. In the soap opera, Lekki Wives - her signature…

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Film Review: Dance To My Beat is a shameless cash grab. But you will laugh

by Wilfred Okiche   Nollywood starlet, Mary Lazarus joins the ever-expanding list of actresses to take the plunge into film production with Dance To My Beat. She plays it as…

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Film Review: My Wife and I is a decent project with lazy characterisation

Nigerian movie writers and production companies are riding high on the wings of the romantic comedy genre. The box office champ, The Wedding Party, changed the game irrevocably. Then the…

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Film Review: Hakkunde is a confluence of ideas, skill and talent

by Wilfred Okiche Director Asurf Oluseyi has made two shorts,- the AMVCA winning A Day with Death and Hell or Highwater, a sensitive portrayal of being male and gay in…

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Movie Review: Something Fresh, Something Familiar, Something Wicked

by Wilfred Okiche The unprecedented triumph of last year’s money printing behemoth, The Wedding Party at the domestic box office points to one thing, that such a success story lends…

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Film review: ‘All about love’ manages to get by

by Wilfred Okiche From the stable of Diamond Groove pictures, makers of such forgettable fare as I Come Lagos and Honeymoon Hotel, comes this effort, All About Love, a sexy…

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Film review: ‘Saving Dreams’ is just unexciting

by Wilfred Okiche Brenda Jackson (Karen Simpson), an up and coming singer spends her days (and nights) toiling in Canadian bars, hoping to get noticed by someone in a position…

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Film Review: Stephanie Okereke-Linus’ Dry

At the closing of NollywoodWeek Paris on the 7th of June, 2015, I saw Stephanie Linus’s Dry, which begins with Zara Robbins receiving an award at an event, where her adopted mother…

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Movie Review: Iyore is good, then bad, then terrible

The creative union between Frank Rajah Arase, the Nigerian born director and Abdul Salam Mumuni, head of Venus, a production company headquartered in Ghana can be widely credited with reigniting…

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Film review: Watch ‘Onye Ozi’ with low expectations and you won’t be disappointed

by Wilfred Okiche Director Obi Emelonye probably earned the right to make ‘Onye ozi’ - translated as The Messenger- , an ultra-low budget independent film in Igbo language after enjoying…

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Movie review: Bayo Alawiye’s ‘Dark Side’ just manages to get by

by Wilfred Okiche ‘Dark side’ is a suspense thriller starring Bayo Alawiye, Nobert Young, Joseph Benjamin and Uru Eke. It begins with a supernatural twist as a young man (Bayo…

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Movie review: Why ‘What to expect when you are expecting’ is a must watch

by Nanya Konwea Over the moon about starting a family, TV fitness guru Jules and dance show star Evan find that their high-octane celebrity lives don’t stand a chance against…

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Movie review: ‘Turning Point’ is a rough cut of a potentially intriguing film

by Wilfred Okiche Another year, another ‘’Nollywood-Hollywood’ collaboration arrives.  And how we’ve come to dread them. A long time ago, film lovers jumped excitedly at the mere thought of Hollywood…

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Review: A mix of interesting movies from the European film festival in Abuja

by Oris Aigbokhaevbolo The 6th European Film Festival held recently in Abuja. As in previous editions, films from several European countries were screened over two weeks, and at no cost…

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Film review: Dear Nollywood, films like ‘On bended knees’ can (and should) still go straight to DVD

by Wilfred Okiche   As Nollywood actresses go, Chioma Chukwuka Akpotha is pretty big. She’s been around for a while, gone about her business quietly and won an AMAA for…

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