Someone once told me that every story is a love story, and in no place has that point been made as clearly as in Izu Ojukwu’s ‘76 (formerly “Lions of 76”). Izu takes a military story and exposes it through the lens of two lovers in [...]
If you follow us in any shape or form (either on this blog or on twitter), then you know how we feel about “new nollywood’s” obsession with the ‘ensemble cast’ and it’s overuse in our cinema. However after seeing this [...]
If you are like me, you read the comments on irokotv before you press play. Why? Because there’s a lot of movies and there’s only so many hours in a day. In the comments for this movie, there were people saying how they’ve watched [...]
The first 20-30 minutes of this movie was a struggle! When I say struggle I mean knees bleeding, ankle shot, crawling on granite STRUGGLE. I was hard pressed to just exit and give up.
From Jane Eyre to Wuthering Heights and even Harry Potter to Twilight, there is never a movie adaptation of a book that does not seem to suffer from what I shall hence refer as “not as good as the book syndrome” and Biyi Bandele’s [...]
The movie starts off with Akin - played so convincingly well by Wale Ojo - a tireless and ruthless business man attempting to scale the ladders of corporate success whilst being non-challant of all the little people he might pull down on his way up. He [...]
Shirley Frimpong-Manso who gave us month after month of sexy sassy wahala back in 2011-12 with the Adams Apples series, returns again to our screens with yet another colorful romantic comedy, this time along with Ghanaian actress Yvonne Okoro. The [...]
Clara Ikemba steals the show in Mildred Okwo's latest offering, the Meeting; a satirical representations of the daily drama in a Nigerian Minister's office that has the audience asking along with the characters "but how can a common receptionist be so [...]
