The first set of scenes in Taiwo Egunjobi’s latest offering, A Green Fever, sets the stage for an interesting yet haunting outing. I have been a follower of the filmmaker since before the days of his first feature film In Ibadan, and there’s a sense of [...]
La Femme Anjola: Mildred Okwo’s Neo-Noir Drama is Almost Perfect Many times, I’ve witnessed Nollywood filmmakers attempting to impose foreign elements and tropes onto Nigerian stories. Unfortunately, the results are often catastrophic, if not [...]
In ‘The Black Book,’ Paul Edima (Richard Mofe-Damijo – RMD), now retired and seeking redemption, enjoys a simple life with his son (Olumide Oworu). However, when the Nigerian police unjustly target and frame his son as a criminal, [...]
Collision Course is truly a collision of beautiful storytelling and talent! It tells the story of a struggling musician from a wealthy background, Mide (Daniel Etim Effiong), who is trying hard to prove to his father that he can make it without his law [...]
In an era of remakes like “Living In Bondage” and “Nneka the Pretty Serpent” with some remakes being above the mark while others not even recognizes that a mark exists, it might bring you joy to realize that the Netflix Limited [...]
Coming from Insanity (CFI) is the story of a young Kossi (Gabriel Afolayan) who was illegally transplanted from his home country, Togo, and finds himself in the role of a slave to a rich Lagos family. Many years later, Kossi has grown into a young man who [...]
If there’s one thing old nollywood has over new nollywood everyday – and twice on Sundays – it’s storytelling. And this 2019, sequel to the nollywood classic “Living In Bondage” downloads some of that old charm [...]
The Delivery Boy is a great example of taking the least amount of resources and making the absolute most out of it. In this film, a suicide bomber and a prostitute find themselves in an unlikely collaboration when they are both stuck hiding together in a [...]
