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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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Living In Bondage: Breaking Free: How this Nollywood big budget sequel became the year’s most anticipated film
This year, box office returns for Nigerian films have been far from remarkable. But come 8, November 2019, Play Entertainment Network and Natives Filmworks, producers of the multi-million Naira sequel,…
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5 top Nollywood movies to watch in October
Because it's the month of horror, I watched Kunle Afolayan's The Figurine and it was pretty decent. Then I paid homage to old-era Nollyhood horror and revisited Teco Benson's End…
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Profile: Joel Kachi Benson just won Venice. You should know his name
When the Nigerian entry Daughters of Chibok was announced winner of the Best Virtual Reality Story (for linear content) at the awards ceremony of the Venice International Film Festival, the…
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Theatre Review: ”The Wives” is a near perfect outing
The WivesMokalik Official Trailer - a KUNLE AFOLAYAN film Fresh off her stage directing debut with the dramedy, Lavender which premiered at the Lagos Theatre Festival in April, thespian…
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Long Read: What Bong Joon-ho’s ‘’Parasite’’ says about Nigeria and South Africa
Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again… Les Miserables In the 2019…
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”Walking With Shadows” is proof that Funmi Iyanda is still invested in telling human interest stories
It is a long way from Lagos to London, but when the 63rd London Film Festival unveiled its programme for this year’s event, three Nigerian feature length films made the cut. One of them, Walking…
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