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The Film Blog: Should we be worried for AFRIFF?
"It is not a joke, I am serious, I am quitting next year" goes the title of this Accelerate TV interview with AFRIFF founder Chioma Ude. And, it's by no…
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The Film Blog: The Best of Nollywood Awards need to do some soul searching
The Best Of Nollywood Awards held last weekend. If you're wondering why you didn't hear much about it, it's likely because the ceremony took place in Aba and the celebrities…
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The Film Blog: Are Nigerian cinemas embracing the times?
For Nigerian cinemas, at least. A quick glance at the Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja schedule shows that a whopping 5 out of the 10 movies showing are Nigerian. If you haven't…
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The Film Blog: Sadly, we are very disappointed with the movie ’76
You know that sinking feeling in your stomach when you don’t agree with the elite consensus? Yeah we felt that after watching ’76. Because we desperately wanted to like it.…
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The Film Blog: ‘The Inn’ has our attention
Just yesterday we were talking about stars making a return to the limelight via television shows. Today, we found out about a new movie called The Inn, which stars Ngozi…
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The Film Blog: Is an Ego Boyo resurgence upon us?
Last week we brought you news that director and producer Mildred Okwo was hard at work on set of her new project, a TV series currently titled Bankers NGR. The most…
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The Film Blog: ‘Salt’ is a pretty good ebola narrative
The thing about big events or tragedies is that there are tons of other smaller, more narrow events taking place within them that tend to go unnoticed or unacknowledged. This is…
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The Film Blog: Mildred Okwo plots her next move
After wowing audiences with her first film The Meeting (actually, her first film was 30 Days, but so few people got to see it, and even fewer are aware of his…
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The Film Blog: Somkele Idhalama and Ifeanyi Dike Jr. – 2 on a roll
You know, we're quite wary of noise. Its very function in many regards is to distract. And so we're equally wary of contributing to said noise. But sometimes exceptions have to be…
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The Film Blog: And the (AFRIFF) winners are…
And after a week of feverish activity, the 2016 edition of the Africa International Film Festival has come to a close. We've kept a close eye and this year has…
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The Film Blog: Ojukokoro is coming
It's rare that a Nigerian movie generates what is clearly organic buzz (as opposed to, you know, Nollywood people just getting high on their own supply) but that appears to…
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The Film Blog: Denrele The Groom
We couldn't be more curious about Denrele's new film role. "How To Play A Player," you say? Our eyes are peeled.
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The Film Blog: Room 315 has no time for your drama
It was just about a month ago when the internet was hit with a flurry of controversy about two similarly titled films, Room 313 and Room 315. The director, Niyi…
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The Film Blog: We can’t be bothered with ‘5ive’
A consequence of the current "revolution" Nigerian film and TV is seeing is that there will, at some point, simply be, or have been too much. Which is exactly the…
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The Film Blog: ‘This Is It’ has our attention, and Lowladee is a quiet storm
Nigeria's film industry will be great(er). There is no doubt. It is a logical impossibility for that to not be the case, given the sheer number of people creating and…
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The Film Blog: We’re not sure about First Stars
For all of the problems Nollywood has (and has had,) a lack of raw talent is at the bottom of the list. Perhaps a bigger problem might be turning that…
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The Film Blog: We can’t wait for Amaka’s Kin
Amaka Igwe is resting in peace. If there is a fate greater than that for the soul of the woman who gave us Checkmate, Fuji House of Commotion and Violated,…
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The Film Blog: Isioma Osaje’s hustle is A-grade
We have to give it to Isioma Osaje 2.0. Or is it 3.0? This young woman has already been through so many career incarnations that you'd forgive us for losing…
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The Film Blog: Have you seen Sons of the Caliphate?
The fact that it was directed by Kenneth Gyang was enough to pique our interests. And then the fact that it's set in "The North," a region largely underrepresented in mainstream…
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The Film Blog: A Mercy Johnson talk show you say?
Mercy Johnson is launching a talk show. Or has launched a talk show. We're still not sure but she made the announcement on her Instagram. We won't talk about the title.…
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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 known for her work as Amaka Ade-Williams on the television series, Tinsel -…
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Davido’s ThisDay Style cover, MAMAs and everything else on Uncensored this week
Ifeoma Areh of Wildflower PR & Company hosted Uncensored this week while Chude Jideonwo was away. She is joined by Lekan Olanrewaju and Isime Esene. They talk about Davido's ThisDay…
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The Film Blog: Of course, someone came for Mary Njoku
We have been wondering what took them so long, to be honest. Mary Remmy Njoku, actor, is wife of media and film entrepreneur (please he should stop that Internet entrepreneur…
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The Film Blog: Mary Njoku just wants to be big, that’s all.
So we are officially calling today The Njoku today. Because we are so inspired. So Biko, allow us. See Mary Remmy's interview with the BBC here.
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The Film Blog: What Nate Parker said about the Nigerian film market
Some of us on TFB believe that the best thing Nate Parker could have done for his image for his new film, Birth of a Nation. Instead of talking about…
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The Film Blog: AFRIFF is finally here – with big news
It almost looked like it wasn’t gonna happen. That’s if you don’t know Chioma Ude. Because she will fight tooth nail, she will drag man and beast and she will…
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The Film Blog: Abeg, calm down Oreka
This morning, we woke up on The Film Blog (TFB) to find out that Oreka Godis, one of our favorite radio presenters (even though she of course won't believe it,…
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The Film Blog: From #TheOtherRoom to #Room315 (and what we think)
In case you were looking for a room controversy that actually worth your time, rather than the teenage-boy fantasies of an over-indulged President, well yesterday the good guys at YNaija's…
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PODCAST: Lekki Wives, PopCentral TV and everything else on Uncensored this week
Ifeoma Areh is creative director of Wildflower PR & Company and Tosin Ajibade is founder of Olorisupergal.com. Together with the host, Chude Jideonwo, they talk about banking institutions producing content,…
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The Film Blog: That’s how IK Ogbonna was just going on his way o, and trailer came to jam him
By now you know we kinda like our good friends at TrueNollywoodStories, at least based on how many times we look at the stuff that Segun Odejimi and Andrew…
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