Category: Reviews
Theatre Review: Forget Game of Thrones, Jagagba is the real deal
The winning play of the second edition of the Bikiya Graham-Douglas run Beeta Universal Arts Foundation playwright competition was staged over the weekend at the Agip recital hall of the…
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Film Review: Kunle Afolayan’s Mokalik isn’t quite a return to form
He may not know it, but Kunle Afolayan has been in need of artistic redemption since he followed up the disappointing clutter of his last truly ambitious film The CEO,…
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Film Review: Makate must sell will waste your time, and test your last nerve
Forget the colorful marketing, the glossy rom-com ad-spin and the parade of comic heavy hitters, there is almost nothing redeemable about Makate must sell, the insipid new film written and…
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Film Review: In Katung Aduwak’s Heaven’s Hell, the rich also cry
If you scored a thousand Naira for every time the f… word was uttered in Heaven’s Hell, the long gestating debut feature length by former reality television star, Katung Aduwak,…
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Film Review: Chico Ejiro’s Night bus to Lagos is going nowhere
There was a period between the late nineties and early aughts when Chico Ejiro was easily the most influential figure in all of Nollywood. Long before Tyler Perry would arrive…
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Film Review: Knockout wants to make you laugh. What’s wrong with that?
It is hard to recall considering today’s fragmented media space but there was a time when Wale Adenuga Productions was at the center of mainstream Nigerian entertainment. With influential titles…
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Film Review: Tade Ogidan mastered video, but Gold Statue shows he is yet to find his cinematic voice
When it comes to Nollywood movies, the name Tade Ogidan is about as iconic as it gets. Since he put a helicopter in an audacious chase scene in the 1996…
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Film Review: Nimbe assaults you with overt moral lessons, but isn’t that all of Nollywood
The protagonist for which Nimbe: The movie is named after is a high school student growing up somewhere in southwest Nigeria. Nimbe is the kind of character usually ignored by…
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Film Review: Isn’t Nollywood tired of derivative films like ‘Zero Hour’?
Forget everything you saw in Lionheart. When in Nollywood, a young man returns from the United States of America to take control of his late father’s business empire- because God…
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