With Christmas around the corner, many movies and series are essentially made to capture the joy of the festivity. Among these many jolly films is the South African comedy series, How To Ruin Christmas: The Funeral, the sequel to 2020’s The Wedding. The first season of the Netflix original series was about two distinctive families, the lower class Sellos and the upper class Twalas, who are about to become one, with the marriage between Beauty Sello (Thando Thabethe) and Sbu Twala (Vincent Mahlangu). The wedding almost turned into a disaster when the bride’s sister, Tumi (Busisiwe Lurayi), her presumed toxic…
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The nominations for the 2021 African Movie Academy Awards were announced on October 29, 2021, an award that recognizes outstanding African films, actors, and actresses in the previous year. The announcement for the 17th edition was anchored by Steve Ayorinde, the head jury of AMAA. The 2020 AMAA award for best film was awarded to Nigerian drama, The Milkmaid, which was also Nigeria’s entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards. In this year’s category for best film, Nigeria’s Eyimofe will be representing Nigeria. Ayinla (the story of renowned singer, Ayinla Omowura), while competing in multiple…
Directed by Uyoyou Adia, Charge and Bail follows the story of Boma (Zainab Balogun), a young elite woman who leaves the United States to practice law in her father’s firm in Nigeria.
As Daniel Craig makes his final appearance as the martini-loving British secret agent in No Time To Die, making him the 6th face of the popular British franchise, here is my personal ranking of actors who have played the prestigious British spy.
I have seen many great Hollywood crime thrillers, from De Niro’s Heat (1995), Affleck’s The Town (2010), to Hardy’s Lawless (2012), and many other clever entertaining movies of this genre. A Nollywood crime thriller from the recent past is Kayode Kasum’s Dwindle, a comedy crime thriller that was satisfactory but cunningly hid its flaws under a comical façade. Hide ‘N’ Seek should have taken the same route instead of following the 007-esque direction. Directed by Tolu “LORDTANNER” Awobiyi and Adekunle-Bryan Oyetunde, the 1hr 48min movie involves a party of individuals who plan to steal embezzled public funds from a corrupt…
As we wait patiently for the third season, here are five other Netflix shows to binge watch if you enjoy Blood & Water.
If you are a fan of Bollywood movies, Shah Rukh Khan is definitely a familiar face. With his memorable performance in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, it is not surprising that he is impressive in My Name is Khan with his on-screen partner, Kajol. Directed by Karan Johar (Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham), My Name is Khan captures the sad reality of Muslim immigrants in a post 9/11 America. It tells the story of a young Muslim man, Rizwan Khan (Shah Rukh Khan), with Asperger Syndrome, a rare condition which makes him simple-minded, such as interpreting words…
We have seen teen movies and TV shows, like Atypical, Outer Banks, On My Block and many others, that grapple with teen angst and puberty, however, Sex Education has proved itself distinct with the angle it has set to explore. The TV series examines many teen issues regarding sexuality, love and identity. The newly released third season takes us back to the renowned sex school, Moordale Secondary School, and the issues left unsolved in the second season from Otis (Asa Butterfield) and Maeve’s (Emma Mackey) fragile relationship, to Jean’s (Gillian Anderson) pregnancy and the surprising turnaround of the famous bully,…
There will always be disappointing movies, it’s inevitable and as cinephiles, this is something we must experience. Filmmaking as an art is a way of telling a story through visual forms and Nollywood is reaching a commendable stage rather too slowly. There are movies that are praised for their art and creativity and there are some that are met with retort or disapproval–– under which The Ghost and the Tout Too falls. The first part released in 2018, The Ghost and the Tout, is one of those movies that should never make it to the big screen, an abomination to…
The latest addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, is a fusion of Chinese martial arts with the Hollywood superhero universe. Just like T’Challa became an iconic hero amongst his kind, being the first ever black male lead in the MCU, Shang-Chi joins the league of Marvel superheroes as the first ever Asian lead. In the same vein, the directorial role is helmed by Destin Daniel Cretton (Just Mercy), the Asian American behind the biographical gripping drama that starred Michael B. Jordan. Related Sim Liu stars as Shang-Chi, the son of an immortal…