Category: The Cutting Floor
#TIFF2020: Idris Elba and Jharrel Jerome in Concrete Cowboy
Concrete Cowboy has a most interesting premise. A classic coming-of-age drama set within the very real backdrop of Philadelphia cowboy culture, Concrete Cowboy also shines a spotlight on an ancient…
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#TIFF2020: David Oyelowo’s ‘The Water Man’ is a modest charmer
After delivering indelible performances in films like Selma and A United Kingdom, British-Nigerian actor David Oyelowo appeals to the child within for The Water Man, his Oprah Winfrey supported directorial…
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#TIFF2020Review: ‘I am Greta’ is an intimate yet puzzling profile of courage
2019 was the year that sixteen-year-old Swedish teenage climate activist, Greta Thunberg became a global icon. From inspiring climate change activists around the world, to dressing down a roomful of…
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Television Review: Netflix’s Blood and Water is both intriguing and frustrating
Coming on the heels of the addictive Queen Sono, Netflix continues to ramp up its presence in Africa with the engaging but often frustrating young adult series Blood & Water.…
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Book Review: Chimeka Garricks fuses music and confessional storytelling on ‘A Broken People’s Playlist’
It isn’t the most original concept, melding music with words on the page. Countless authors have spoken of how at the heights of their creativity, or depths of their despair,…
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Obituary: Dan Foster, the American who changed the face of Nigerian radio forever
In the afternoon of 17, June, news would begin to filter in from unconfirmed sources that popular Nigerian based, American broadcaster and On Air Personality, Dan Foster had passed away…
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#Berlinale2020 Review: O.C Ukeje is lost in translation in “Shine Your Eyes”
You wouldn’t be out of place if you concluded sometime in the last decade that O.C Ukeje was going to be the next great leading man. Coming off a surprise…
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Queen Sono’s Enhle Maphumulo & Khathu Ramabulana are TV’s most charismatic couple
As part of YNaija's coverage of the launch of Queen Sono, the first Netflix original scripted series from Africa, our editors joined a roundtable of journalists from across the continent to speak…
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Queen Sono’s Pearl Thusi & Kate Liquorish bring fresh fire to the Afro-spy genre
As part of YNaija's coverage of the launch of Queen Sono, the first original scripted series produced by Netflix on the continent. Pearl Thusi plays the titular Queen Sono and Liquorish's Ekaterina…
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#Sundance2020: Winston Duke does career best work in Nine Days
In Nine Days, the ambitious, life-affirming debut by director Edson Oda, which premiered at Sundance in the U.S Dramatic Competition, the events play out in some parallel pre-universe, an isolated…
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