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September 9, 2025

Nollywood Films Coming Out This September 2025

Nollywood has a great selection of movies coming out this September to keep viewers rooted to the front of their TV screens. Exploring all genres from comedy, to actions to romance and even thrillers. These are some of the movies you should look out for this September: This movie details the life of a married... Read More

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Nollywood movies and series coming out in July 2025

Nollywood Movies And Series Coming Out This July 2025

Nollywood has a great selection of movies coming out this July to keep viewers rooted to the front of their tv screens. Exploring all genres from comedy, to actions to romance and even thrillers. These are some of the movies and series you should look out for this July: Out in the darkness depicts the... Read More

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If You Loved These Hollywood Films, Here Are Their Nollywood Counterparts

If You Loved These Hollywood Films, Here Are Their Nollywood Counterparts

You’ve probably come across a Nollywood movie that feels a lot like something you’ve seen in Hollywood. That is because some stories cross borders, so if you enjoyed a particular Hollywood film, there’s a Nollywood version you might like just as much. Here are five Nollywood movies with storylines that closely match their Hollywood counterparts.... Read More

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Watchout for “Adunni: Ogidan Binrin” Release This Week

A powerful female-led film, “Adunni: Ogidan Binrin,” is set to hit cinemas this week across Nigeria from April 25. The epic drama follows the story of Adunni, a courageous woman who rises up in a time when women were heavily oppressed and dehumanised. Defying the tyrannical leader of her land, Adunni leads a fight for... Read More

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Nollywood Movies and Series Coming Out in April 2025

A new month brings new Nollywood movies and series to enjoy! In April 2025, filmmakers are set to release exciting stories that will entertain and impress audiences. From dramas to thrillers, Nollywood continues to grow, delivering fresh and creative productions. Here’s a list of movies and series coming out this month that you won’t want... Read More

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September 10, 2024

Nollywood Movies and Series Coming Out This September So Far

Nollywood filmmakers have blessed Nigerians by releasing several movies that have left us with many positive emotions. The film industry has proven that these filmmakers continuously push themselves to improve their creativity with each production released into the media for public consumption. This month of September, we bring movies and series that will be released... Read More

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Nollywood Movies Coming Out In 2024 So Far

Many will admit that Nollywood is the gift that keeps giving with the evidence we have all seen and experienced since the start of this year from the industry. The Nollywood industry has grown exponentially with the help of creative filmmakers and talented actors whose job is to produce unforgettable movies and shows that will... Read More

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September 8, 2023

Weekend Watch List Nollywood

Selecting a movie to watch can be cumbersome; we know this. Thinking of a film that suits the mood is time-consuming, and we have come to your rescue by curating a watch list of Nollywood movies that we think you will like. Whether rolling off the sofa or your bed from laughter, watching your favourite... Read More

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September 1, 2023

Exciting Nollywood Movies to Watch This September!

The anticipation is over, and September is here, bringing with it a slew of Nollywood films that are sure to captivate audiences both in cinemas and on streaming platforms. In this article, we’ll take you through a curated list of six must-watch Nollywood movies releasing this month. Strained Release Date: September 1, 2023 “Strained” is... Read More

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Nollywood movies coming to Netflix this July

One of the surprising things that happened this June was Netflix picking up Kingsley Ogoro’s Osuofia in London, the classic comedy that captured audiences back in 2004, and proved pivotal for Nkem Owoh’s acting career. The internet was overjoyed. Acquiring older Nollywood titles churned around the early ’00’s hasn’t been that common with the streamer,... Read More

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These Nollywood movies are coming to Netflix this June

As always, Netflix is offering a new slate of Nollywood content this June, picking up old titles as well as new ones. Here are the Nollywood movies available on the streamer this month. Gold Statue (June 1) Veteran producer Tade Ogidan returned from an eight-year hiatus with Gold Statue in 2019, a film that feels... Read More

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Is Nollywood getting better or worse? These unpopular opinions on Twitter have the answers

Is Nollywood getting better or worse? The answer could lie in the Nollywood era one grew up in. While 90’s Nollywood movies hold a certain lo-fi charm, including the ones leading into the early and mid-aughts, they were driven by ambitious filmmakers who worked within industry limitations. Lack of funding, technical infrastructure and an upscale... Read More

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Ojukokoro, Oloibiri, This Lady Called Life – Nollywood movies coming to Netflix and cinemas this April

Mildred Okwo’s La Femme Anjola finally arrived in cinemas last month, its lead actors Rita Dominic and Nonso Bassey having a run with interviews and cranking up post-release publicity on social media. Okwo’s elaborately-made noir thriller got derailed by the coronavirus pandemic last year, affecting its release. More releases are coming to cinemas this April,... Read More

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Fate of Alakada, Catch.er, Three Thieves – Nollywood movies coming to Netflix this March

There are only three things constant in life – rain, tax, and Netflix expanding its Nollywood content library. This March, the streamer is bringing some new additions and while we wait for new original projects to arrive this year (King of Boys etc), it’s time yet again to stream our way through a prevailing pandemic.... Read More

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November 20, 2020

Should we go to the cinemas with coronavirus still around?

With coronavirus still much around, we are never going back to the time when it was completely safe to watch movies in cinemas. At least not for now. To say that cinemas in Nigeria were shuttered due to the pandemic would be an understatement. Box office revenue took a hit, cinema economy comprising of low-level... Read More

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September 7, 2020

Will Kunle Afolayon’s ‘Citation’ make the statement Nollywood movies still shy away from?

Enthralling cinematography. Immersive dialogue. Tightly woven plots. Carefully considered storytelling. Cultural relevance. That sounds like one – and more – masterpiece from Kunle Afolayan and we absolutely love to see it. The award-winning Nigerian filmmaker, known for writing, directing, producing, and sometimes acting in some of Nigeria’s most impressive works of visual art has released... Read More

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5 Things that Should Matter Today: Busola Dakolo says she was forced by the police to sign a document countering her rape case against Pastor Fatoyinbo

In the latest development in the Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo rape saga, Busola Dakolo has revealed in an interview with the Guardian UK that she was forced the police at gunpoint to sign a document countering her rape allegations against Fatoyinbo, senior pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA). Recall that weeks ago, the police... Read More

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Cinema pointer

August 15, 2018

Stupid, rubbish, garbage: Cinema Pointer is the platform refusing to sugarcoat reviews of Nollywood movies

Have you read a Cinema Pointer movie review on Instagram? It is concise, cuttingly honest and somewhat fun. In a minute or less, you are armed with the knowledge to make better choices in your moviegoing life, because buying a movie ticket and the attendant popcorn and drink over a trash movie is, as put... Read More

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How cinema-worthy are Nollywood’s new crop of movies?

Earlier in the week, I responded to a tweet posted by an account that I follow. It was an interesting tweet, in that the owner of the account explained why movies like Dunkirk, Fury, and Gravity were designed for cinema viewing, as opposed to watching them on a laptop. Gravity itself, the film released in... Read More

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[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 cinema in Lagos, Nigeria. And yet, Isoken is still going on strong with three screening times a day, more than six weeks after it launched. Including an 8.20pm slot. For the new week that started... Read More

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Are you going to watch this Nollywood movie supposedly about Evans the kidnapper?

Nollywood is set to release a movie, perhaps drawing inspiration from the “activities” of suspected kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike popularly known as Evans. ‘Evans: The city of crime’ will have been written, shot, edited and produced in record time — if its story line is centrally about the man described as the “most notorious kidnapper in... Read More

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The Media Blog: We are actually excited about the new Fifty series

We know ‘Fifty’ the movie had a lot of ‘haters’, mostly converging upon the alleged lack of a story. That’s okay. The movie made itself vulnerable to the critique. Even though insiders told us at the time that the characters were not deepened deliberately because it was always planned to give way to a series,... Read More

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Opinion: The Wedding Party- Kemi Adetiba’s interpretation of owanbe

by Samuel Osho In the most populous black nation in the world, all the forces of nature acquiesce to stimulate the steady flow of wedding ceremonies – the population, the polity, the culture, and even the moribund economy. After a busy week loaded with tight schedules, a ticket to a wedding party serves as the... Read More

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January 8, 2015

An exciting January awaits Africa Magic viewers [DETAILS]

by Damilola Jagun 2015 begins on an electrifying note as Africa Magic launches new and exciting shows in January for its viewers across Africa and the rest of the world. Hotel Majestic airs Weekdays on Africa Magic Showcase (Dstv Channel 151) at 21:00 CAT We kick start the year with a first of its... Read More

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December 23, 2014

5 Nollywood myths that (of-course) aren’t always true

by Uche Omar If you watch Nigerian movies often, you may have noticed that the consistency of certain themes that do not hold water in reality. But why do I sweat it? TV reality sometimes is not real life reality. But when a certain storyline is repeated endlessly, the need to question such notion... Read More

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