Let’s start with a jokey analogy. Think of the Nigerian director as a girlfriend. Think of the Nigerian film as Indomie. The girlfriend is pretty and...
If all cinema means to you is a celebration of a fame already acquired, then you might have already seen ‘Entreat’. If cinema must be a...
How did it all start? Chioma Akpotha as broadcaster asks a group of women in the first scene of Wives on Strike. There’s no spoiler in...
The film Suru L’ere, directed by Mildred Okwo, provides a reviewer with a rather unusual problem. Ninety percent of the film is watchable, enjoyable even, and every...
We’ll have to bemoan the state of Nigerian culture criticism—a thankless, payless activity—that makes it impossible for any one person to follow and appraise culture products...
Nothing prepares you for the disappointment that is Out of Luck. Not the title, that slick 3-word, 3-syllabled compact phrasing. Not the trailer, which having seen...
In 2015, Walter Taylaur’s Gbomo Gbomo Express has inherited that peculiar hand-me-down: the not-your-typical-Nollywood film praise. Earlier films to receive that poisoned chalice include Tango with...
Lagos is a scary place and no one should tell you different. Actually, no one tells you different. Not the books like Toni Kan’s Night of...
In O-Town, director CJ Obasi proves he is his own greatest subject. His earlier film was a zombie flick. Perhaps awed by the audacity of the...
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