Tag: movie review
King of Boys: An unvarnished look into the seedy underbelly of the Lagos elite
Kemi Adetiba’s King of Boys is a coming of age film and a departure from the mundane theme of comedy ...
Film review: Banana Island Ghost has the cool factor
Banana Island Ghost is a consolidation of recent developments in the Nigerian film industry. Coming in with a real great ...
Movie Review: Isoken is an incredibly amazing story
The Jadesola Osiberu written, directed and produced Love movie cum romantic comedy titled Isoken is a brilliantly told story about ...
The Film Blog: Throwback to 2006 when a Nollywood fan was ‘wailing’
This is a reminder of how far we have come – from 2006 when this piece was published in the ...
Movie Review: Alakada Reloaded, an elaborate hoax to collect money from Nigerians
A big screen answer to Jennifer Akindele’s Jenifa, Alakada reloaded is a meh attempt. The Falz-esque style of speaking, extreme ...
Movie Review: Slow Country, a mix of rowdiness and funny accents
Three hours of a good but not excellent movie. The truth is Slow Country isn’t a bad movie, it’s just ...
Movie review: Rita Dominic and Femi Jacobs reunite, but cannot save The Guest
by Wilfred Okiche The makers of The Guest, the sexy romantic thriller directed by Christian Olayinka, must have figured that ...
Movie review: The sometimes funny, twisted world of Brother Jekwu
by Okon Ekpo Brother Jekwu, the new film starring Mike Ezuruonye as a bumbling village idiot who leaves his hometown ...
Movie review: The Wedding Party is an extended music video. But is it fun?
by Wilfred Okiche The trailer for The Wedding Party, the feverishly anticipated event movie from the trio of EbonyLife Films, ...
Wilfred Okiche: Lessons from the 76 movie [NEW VOICES]
by Wilfred Okiche At the just concluded Africa International Film Festival, I was privileged to have caught a screening of ...
Movie review: ’76 is imperfect, but therein lies the beauty
by Okon Ekpo It is the film that launched a thousand countdowns, most of them premature. The long-in-the-works, much postponed ...
Movie review: ‘Dinner’ has a woman problem. But that’s not all
by Okon Ekpo Dinner is the new film written and directed by Jay Franklyn Jituboh. A drama of manners, Dinner ...
Movie review: ‘The Wedding Party’ is all the Nigerian weddings you’ve been to and some
The Wedding Party is the much anticipated Nollywood romcom directed by (up until now) music-video director, Kemi Adetiba. The result ...
Movie review: Mrs Right Guy is warm, harmless fun
by Okon Ekpo In the prologue for Mrs Right Guy, a South African romantic comedy directed by Adze Ugah, a ...
Movie Review: This grudge falls flat | The Grudge
by Okon Ekpo Call it a mini Tinsel reunion. For her debut effort as producer, actress Funmi Holder – best ...
Movie review: Oloibiri is not the definitive Niger Delta narrative
by Okon Ekpo As we were taught in school, oil was first discovered in Nigeria in commercial quantities in a ...
Movie review: When Love Happens Again is a movie that didn’t deserve to be made
by Okon Ekpo The last time we saw the cute if unlikely couple, Mo and Tobenna, lead characters in the ...
So are we all going to sit here and pretend Kunle Afolayan’s ‘The CEO’ isn’t a terrible, godawful movie?
by Tolu Omoyeni When the Nigerian media went agog over the in-flight premiere of Kunle Afolayan‘s new movie, The CEO, some ...
Lolade Nwanze: Hell or High Water – Time well spent
So It was date night again yesterday; it’s been a while. Husband said there was a private movie screening and ...
Movie Review: 3 Is Company
An ambitious career woman is horrified when her husband’s best friend starts showing a romantic interest in her arch enemy ...
Movie Review: Iyore
African movie reviewer, Adenike Adebayo, reviews the movie ‘Iyore’ She describes the movie as a really good one with a ...
Movie Review: While You Slept
Prolific African movie reviewer, Adenike Adebayo, reviews the movie ‘While You Slept.’ She describes the movie as controversial and very ...
So Desperate Housewives Africa, bad idea…or worst idea
by Wilfred Okichie The original Desperate Housewives, a primetime soap created by Marc Cherry, and premiered on ABC in October, ...
Movie review: Ini Edo, Joseph Benjamin slum it in ‘While you slept’
by Wilfred Okiches There is a brief moment when While you slept, the latest collaboration between star Ini Edo, director, ...
Movie review: ‘The Department’ is not edgy or thrilling enough
by Wilfred Okiche The Department is billed as a break away from the usual norm of regurgitative Nollywood storytelling, what ...
Movie review: Launcelot Imasuen’s Invasion 1897 is a hot mess
by Wilfred Okiche Launcelot Odua Imasuen’s Invasion 1897, a history lesson and would be blockbuster has been talk of movie ...
Movie review: ‘A place in the stars’ is a hugely disappointing film
by Wilfred Okiche The buzz surrounding A Place in the stars, the new film by Steve Gukas was pretty good. ...
Movie review: Brother’s Keeper gets a C for effort
by Wilfred Okiche One has to admit, Nollywood has been making an effort these days and actress/producer Omoni Oboli has ...
Movie review: Render to Caesar makes a credible, spirited effort
by Wilfred Okiche Render to Caesar wants to be many things at once. A crime thriller, a police procedural, a ...
Movie review: ‘Deep inside’ is a silly silly film
by Wilfred Okiche There is a scene early in ‘Deep inside’ directed by Lancelot Odua-Imasuen that foretells exactly the kind ...