I, and anyone else who has had the pleasure of sitting through some stupid Nigerian movies these past months, thank Uche Jombo greatly. We thank her for many reasons but two main reasons being: 1) her movies have only one part and 2) the stories are not [...]
Uche Jombo’s “Lies Men Tell” is a very simple movie that comically highlights the cheating ways of three different men in three different scenarios, and the effect it has on their households and how their individual wives handle it. It [...]
‘Absolute Power’ is yet another royal art academy movie from a debutante director (or at least I think this is his/her first work). The movie addresses a prevalent issue in the Nigerian tertiary education system from a moralistic karma-like [...]
Their mission is to go to heaven and steal the book of life, which they refer to for some reason as ‘the chronicle of the book’, in order to write their names in it, and for this purpose they employ two touts from Warri. On the other hand, in [...]
I’ve been reviewing Nollywood movies for about 2 years now so you can say that I haven’t watched many Nollywood movies in all that time. Sounds contradictory? But watching a movie and reviewing a movie are two completely different experiences [...]
Asides from the blatant similarity between this movie and the 2008 movie ‘Fireproof‘, the movie also fails to impress in many critical aspects. Blood or wine tells the story of a couple at the brink of a divorce, a nagging wife, a persevering [...]
To state it simply, the movie had potential to be an emotionally thrilling journey but the development of the story was weak and it ended up falling short. I definitely think 'widow' was a much better and much more moving advocacy film for the plight of widows
The story is one of a seemingly happy couple from the outside, and an unsatisfied wife from the inside. Nollywood has been exploring these themes of marriage, and intra-marital conflicts and the interplay between man and wife for a while now. It's become [...]