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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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‘Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown;’ fast rising Moshood Fattah celebrates [Photos]
Story by Ìyínkàyé Òrẹòlúwá He said I'd have to see LIFE, a 2015 film about the iconic American film star James Dean and a TIME photographer Dennis Stock. Moshood was…
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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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#Sundance2020: Zola is style over substance
In 2015, a tweet storm by A’Ziah Zola King, a certain Detroit waitress and exotic dancer, detailing a wild, dangerous weekend in Florida hit the internet and shook Twitter to…
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Ghana’s number 1 film, ‘The Perfect Picture’ hits Nigerian cinemas
Award winning Ghanaian producer and director, Shirley Frimpong-Manso and Ken Attoh have come together 10 years later, to produce the sequel to one of Ghana’s most revered films, titled “The…
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Minari, Nine Days, The 40-Year-Old Version….The 20 best films at #Sundance2020
The Sundance film festival may have come and gone but the memories still linger thanks to the several impressions left by the films on this list. Many of these films…
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African films make a splash at Sundance + See the complete list of winners
The 2020 Sundance film festival, the most important festival for independent American cinema came to a close Saturday night with the announcement of winners at the awards ceremony. Lee Isaac…
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Three takeaways from the trailer of ‘Queen Sono,’ Netflix’s first African original series
Back in December 2018, Netflix announced that it was looking towards Africa to siphon original series and films in line with its global ambitions. South African crime drama Queen Sono…
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#Sundance2020: Angelina Jolie & David Oyelowo bring soul to ‘Come Away’
What if Neverland’s Peter and Wonderland’s Alice were brother and sister, parented by the cinematic duo of Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo? What if your favorite fairytale characters existed in…
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#Sundance2020: ‘I Carry You With Me’ is a heartbreaking stunner
I Carry You With Me (Te Llevo Conmigo), the narrative feature length debut of director Heidi Ewing, an Oscar nominee for the 2006 short film Jesus Camp, is an epic…
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