All confirmed to be available in Nigeria in February 2025, you will find the titles in four categories, further listed in order of their release dates: – Nollywood Movies (and select African countries) – Nollywood […]
Following their theatrical run sometime in 2024, these films are now streaming for people who missed them while they were available in cinemas, or for those who simply want to give any of these films […]
We have broken down all of the individual votes that were counted as part of the 2024 What Kept Me Up Critics Poll. You can find the full list of this year’s results here. In […]
This year, every critic could select their top 5 films from a list of 79 released films across cinemas and streaming services (Prime Video, Showmax and Netflix most notably). And they were awarded points as […]
A Riveting Nigerian Drama Inspired by True Events Stephanie Dadet’s feature film Everything in Between, starring Onyinye Odokoro and Valentine Ohu, is a powerful drama inspired by true events, the film is an intimate portrayal […]
All confirmed to be available in Nigeria in January 2025, you will find the titles in four categories, further listed in order of their release dates: – Nollywood Movies (and select African countries)– Nollywood TV […]
Natives Filmworks and Michelangelo Productions present Katangari Goes To Town, a captivating cinematic experience premiering on Prime Video on January 4, 2025. Directed by Reuben Reng and boasting an ensemble cast of Nollywood veterans and […]
In 2009, when flip phones were still a thing and the world hadn’t been taken over by Instagram and TikToks, Toyin Abraham released the first instalment in the Alakada franchise, which slithered its way into […]
After the culmination of the Merry Men series last year (hopefully), Ayo Makun is back with another comedy thriller in The Waiter. Although AY says this film is different from his previous movies, between the […]
In a retrospective I wrote last year, I hailed Isoken as Jade Osiberu’s best film and praised how well it executed its premise: “[this is] a simple romantic story, Russian-dolled in another one about self-confidence, […]
All confirmed to be available in Nigeria in December 2024, you will find the titles in four categories, further listed in order of their release dates: – Nollywood Movies (and select African countries) – Nollywood […]
When the average Nigerian describes the personnel of the Nigerian military, they would most likely conjure up a fearful image of a camouflage-wearing brute, barking orders that are often reinforced with physical violence and the […]
Inkblot’s latest cinema release, The Perfect Arrangement, features a love triangle, politics, high-class living, a fake wedding, a sex tape and two families’ struggle for survival. Seeing her family’s fortunes go down the drain, Tade […]
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the 2021 series Loki shed little light on the multiverse. At the same time, Spider-Man: No Way Home depicted the unknown catastrophe that could descend with the multiverse. In No […]
Lakeith Stanfield (Atlanta) and Issa Rae (Insecure) star in this somber romance flick. Written and directed by Stella Meghie (Everything, Everything), New York journalist, Michael Block (LaKeith Stanfield) goes to Louisiana to interview Isaac (Y’lan […]
The Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCA) is Nollywood’s most revered award. Not many would like to admit, but it is—like many other things in the industry— unsurprisingly problematic. Since there is not much to […]
Omar Sy moves from a jeweller thief in Lupin to a law-and-order figure in The Takedown, a buddy cop movie about two officers on a flight to take down a criminal group. The Netflix comedy […]
The Man for the Job is a Silicon Valley-esque Nollywood film that portrays an uncommon side of the Nigerian tech space, failed dreams, sour friendship and a heist? Despite the story having different possible narratives […]
According to experts, imposing restrictions on the creative process is more likely to encourage creativity than stifle it. The rationale behind this is that by placing some restrictions on their process, the artist has automatically […]
Netflix titles, like highly anticipated EbonyLife’s Blood Sisters, GreoH Studios’ Ayinla and Tunde Kelani’s 2014 sickle cell drama Dazzling Mirage, pave the way for more Nollywood offerings in May. In cinemas, Inkblot’s romcom, The Perfect […]
On January 25, 1980, three apartheid freedom fighters, Stephen Lakoko, Humphrey Makhubo and Wilfred Madela, were on their way to carry out a planned sabotage mission when they realised their cover had been blown. In […]
Another high-class optics, Lagos-set story fuelled by greed, bad decisions and money rituals. Four friends Osiano (Shawn Faqua), Jite (Uzor Arukwe), Eddie (Tobi Bakre), and Obi (Alex Ekubo) make a covenant in secondary school to […]
