Tag: Film review
#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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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- , ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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, ...