Category: The Cutting Floor
Theatre Review: Fela’s Republic and the Kalakuta Queens casts a spell
Another December, another Bolanle Austen-Peters extravaganza. And how we have come to love them. And why shouldn’t we? When it comes to bang for your buck, lavish high-end theatre productions,…
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Concert Review: Bez Live: The Light
On the 24th of December at the Muri Okunola park, soul singer, Bez Idakula put out another edition of his live concert series for his Lagos audience. The concert also…
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Review: Kpali pokes fun at love and immigration
The heroine of Kpali, the new romantic comedy coming to theatres on the 20th of December is Amaka, a winsome young adult played with sufficient amounts of charm and sass…
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With Ramsey Nouah’s “Living in Bondage: Breaking Free,” Nollywood comes full circle. Or does it?
The original Living in Bondage released in 1992, directed by Chris Obi Rapu is considered a Nollywood classic. Not because it raised the stakes time or broke new grounds in…
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The quiet, devastating power of Akin Omotoso’s The Ghost and the House of Truth
On a quiet evening in Lagos, a girl walks home alone. The neighborhood is safe enough, the people are familiar. She isn’t the only nine-year old to be out unaccompanied.…
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In Akay Mason’s Elevator Baby, sparks fly but is it enough?
What happens when a conceited young man, bloated with pent up frustrations is trapped in a faulty elevator with a brash pregnant woman weighed down by guilt? That is the…
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Theatre Review: A man who is not a man – Bolanle Austen Peters’ Man Enough
It is almost impossible to navigate the great wide streets of the Internet these days, without coming across the hashtags #MenAreScum or #MenAreTrash. These descriptors have been adopted to label…
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Nigerian cinema was in focus at the Carthage Film Festival. What are the lessons learned?
The 30th edition of the Carthage Film Festival, also known as the Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage was held in Tunis from 26, October to 2, November. This year’s event, billed…
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Top 5 movies we are most looking forward to in November
The film world is still churning with the news about the disqualification of Genevieve Nnaji's Lionheart from 2020 Oscar race. Lionheart, which entered for the Best International Feature Film category,…
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Profile: Funke Akindele-Bello is the queen of all media. In case you didn’t notice
For four straight years now, Ebony Life Films has been champion of the end of year box office. From Fifty to Chief Daddy and The Wedding Party films, no one…
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