Tag: The Film Blog

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Media BloggerDecember 13, 2016

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 ...

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Media BloggerDecember 13, 2016

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 ...

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Media BloggerDecember 10, 2016

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 ...

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Media BloggerDecember 8, 2016

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 ...

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Media BloggerDecember 7, 2016

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 ...

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Media BloggerDecember 6, 2016

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 ...

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Media BloggerDecember 4, 2016

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 ...

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Media BloggerDecember 3, 2016

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 ...

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Media BloggerNovember 20, 2016

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 ...

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Media BloggerNovember 20, 2016

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 ...

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Media BloggerNovember 18, 2016

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 ...

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Media BloggerNovember 16, 2016

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 ...

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Media BloggerNovember 14, 2016

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 ...

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Media BloggerNovember 12, 2016

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 ...

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Media BloggerNovember 8, 2016

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 ...

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Media BloggerNovember 7, 2016

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 ...

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Media BloggerNovember 5, 2016

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 ...

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Media BloggerNovember 4, 2016

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 ...

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Media BloggerNovember 3, 2016

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 ...

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Media BloggerNovember 2, 2016

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 ...

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RoqeebahNovember 1, 2016

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 ...

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Isime EseneOctober 24, 2016

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 ...

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Isime EseneOctober 20, 2016

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 ...

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Isime EseneOctober 20, 2016

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 ...

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YWriterOctober 18, 2016

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 ...

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Isime EseneOctober 18, 2016

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 ...

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YWriterOctober 18, 2016

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 ...

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YWriterOctober 18, 2016

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 ...

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Isime EseneOctober 17, 2016

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 ...

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YWriterOctober 17, 2016

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 ...

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