Almost five years after the release of “Oloture,” its sequel, “Oloture: The Journey,” debuts on Netflix. Instead of a movie, it’s presented as a three-episode miniseries. This sequel picks up right where the original movie ends. [...]
Oloture is the story of a young female journalist (Sharon Ooja) who goes undercover in a world very different from hers. A world of pimps, prostitutes and human traffickers. What starts off as a ploy for a story eventually becomes a personal agenda for [...]
Sugar Rush is that new nollywood formula at its most potent: high tech gadgets plus famous celebrities plus comedy equals blockbuster. At it’s frame, it’s the story of the Sugar sisters, Susie (Adesua Etomi), Sola (Bisola Aiyeola) and Bola [...]
It’s always an experience watching Omoni Oboli films. They are almost a genre unto themselves. One in which no one else can quite fit. Love Is War is the story of a happy couple who use their own hands to add ‘palava’ to their lives when [...]
There is a thing to be said about watching movies that were made over a year ago in your current day – expectations change. As time goes by, you see better and the things that would generally have bowled you over once upon a time can barely elicit a [...]
Moms at War is a cute little story of female bromance between two mothers who also happen to live right next to each other. On the one hand we have Ebube (played by Omoni Oboli), a snobby and elitist mother who likes to display how ‘different’ [...]
In It’s Her Day, popular comedian Bovi takes on Nollywood and the Nigerian wedding industry together at the same time. His debut movie tells the story of a recently wealthy (or about to be wealthy) young man who proposes to his girlfriend, a [...]
Wives on Strike: The Revolution is the latest installation of the Omoni Oboli’s Wives on Strike movie series. For those who like me have not seen the first movie, the Wives on Strike movies are a Nigerian cinematic retelling of the classical Greek comedy, [...]
