You know that moment when you are starving and right before ‘food don done’? You might find a packet of the world’s best biscuit and even if you eat boxes upon boxes of it, biscuit doesn’t quite fill up and satisfy the same way [...]
Before we even start the review of this movie, let’s get a few things out of the way first. We applaud all the good intentions and the incredible aspirations that gathered together in making this movie. But good intentions don’t always equal [...]
The gift nollywood gave me for Christmas last year was the shot in the GIF below. That was not a fall. That was not an act. That was a dance! That singular scene negated so much concern and disbelief I had for the industry in six small seconds. Thank you [...]
While the rest of the industry abandons the actors of old, she casts Jemima Osunde right beside Kanayo O. Kanayo. While all the movies in “new nollywood” are not just set in Lagos but in the poshest parts of the island, she sets the film in [...]
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 [...]
