Short Film Review: ‘L.U.N.A.’
L.U.N.A. is a 2021 short directed by Blake Vaz and written by Roman Arabia and Mike Bane. Field technician, Lilian Romero, is sent out to diagnose an error from her company’s home assistant device L.U.N.A. […]
Movie Review: ‘Mr Gbenga’s Hard Drive’ and the Camusian Hero
By the middle of the 20th century, the German poet and playwright, Bertolt Brecht, had perfected the Epic Theatre movement. It is a theatre technique that avoids illusions by constantly disrupting the audience’s suspension of […]
Series Review: UNICEF’s ‘Vaillante’
Vaillante is a UNICEF mini-series about the horrors of child-marriage in sub-Saharan Africa. It features new actors (Maguy Essey and Mouna Loueke) from across the continent and was shot by a South African production team. […]
Fatimah Gimsay Discusses Writing in Nollywood Television, Her Writing Initiative ‘Hello July’ and Her Cross-Culture Inspirations
Fatimah Gimsay—an ambitious multihyphenate—desires to fulfill beautiful storytelling regardless of her role behind the scenes.
‘Chief Daddy 2’ Review: Perhaps This is What the Audience Deserves
Perhaps not. Maybe, as some have rightly hypothesized, we have given the audience far too much credit than deserved. After all, there is no proper yardstick to measure this audience’s intelligence or to prove that […]
Movie Review: ‘The Girl in the Yellow Jumper’ and Questions of Verisimilitude
The Girl in the Yellow Jumper is a Ugandan film that follows the bizarre experiences of a hitchhiker, Jim (Michael Wawuyo Jr), given a ride by a police officer, Patrick (Maurice Kirya). Jim was kidnapped […]
Movie Review: ‘Tanwa Savage’ is a Story in Transition
Tanwa Savage is a 2021 film written and directed by Geshin Salvador. It stars Uzor Arukwe (Jola), Linda Osifo (Zainab), Bimbo Ademoye (Tosin), and Nkechi Blessing Sunday (Ngozi) as the principal characters. With an improbable […]
‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Review: A Tired Rehash of the Old
The Matrix has been rebooted with old characters given new roles, new villains to protect the system, and the old villains suffering the responsibility of deus ex machina. The Matrix Resurrections stars an aging cast […]
Movie Review: ‘Aki and Pawpaw’ (2021) Rides on Nostalgia and Nothing More
It varies; the legend of how Aki (Chinedu Ikedieze) and Pawpaw (Osita Iheme) met. One posits that they met as far back as 1997 at an audition, each shocked at the existence of the other, […]
Movie Review: ‘A Naija Christmas’ is Just Good Enough
A Naija Christmas is Kunle Afolayan’s latest film in his bumper Netflix deal. With a declamatory title, the film pursues personal ambition and weighs that against what Christmas means in a Nigerian setting. The versatile […]
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