Reviews

‘The Stone Drew Ripples’ Review: Faith, Family, and Fraud Collide in an Uneven Drama
Dear reader, help us understand your Nollywood preferences by filling out our audience survey—your input is invaluable and deeply appreciated! Click this link. One of the last scenes in The Stone Drew Ripples features the main character […]

‘Labake Olododo’ Review: Stranger Facial Hair, Longer Incantations, Thinner Stories
Dear reader, help us understand your Nollywood preferences by filling out our audience survey—your input is invaluable and deeply appreciated! Click this link. Directed by Biodun Stephen and starring Iyabo Ojo as the titular lead, Labake Olododo […]

‘Baby Farm’ Review: Might Just Be the Best Thing to Come Out of the EbonyLife-Netflix Deal
Dear reader, help us understand your Nollywood preferences by filling out our audience survey—your input is invaluable and deeply appreciated! Click this link. The EbonyLife and Netflix partnership has been one fraught with many announcements and few […]

Short Film Review: Emily Nkanga’s ‘Yam And Egg’ is a Subtle Invitation to a Private Grief
Dear reader, help us understand your Nollywood preferences by filling out our audience survey—your input is invaluable and deeply appreciated! Click this link. When Nkanga’s charming female lead, Pelumi (Treasure Obasi Johnson), asks Gbenga (Tomisin Ajayi) if […]

‘Finding Me Review’: Industry’s Missing Craft Can’t Be Papered by Box Office Dazzles on Streaming
Dear reader, help us understand your Nollywood preferences by filling out our audience survey—your input is invaluable and deeply appreciated! Click this link. By now, Funke Akindele should be used to the terms highest-grossing and award-winning being […]

Short Film Review: Idiagi Ernest Eromosele’s ‘The Audition’ Expands His Zero-Budget Introspective Musing on The Nigerian Youth
Dear reader, help us understand your Nollywood preferences by filling out our audience survey—your input is invaluable and deeply appreciated! Click this link. As we wrote in our review of Idiagi Ernest Eromosele’s previous short film The […]

‘Reel Love’ Review: Timini Egbuson’s Debut Cinema Production Combines Romance Drenched in Influencer Culture
Dear reader, help us understand your Nollywood preferences by filling out our audience survey—your input is invaluable and deeply appreciated! Click this link. From staging a relationship to fulfill an inheritance clause, posing as a couple to […]

Berlinale 2025: ‘Dreamers’ Review
Dear reader, help us understand your Nollywood preferences by filling out our audience survey—your input is invaluable and deeply appreciated! Click this link. The title of my favourite Nigerian migration drama, Eyimofe, carries a tinge of dream […]
News

MIP Africa 2025 Welcomes Filmmaker Submissions for Its Project Pitch Platform
Dear reader, help us understand your Nollywood preferences by filling out our audience survey—your input is invaluable and deeply appreciated! Click this link. MIP Africa, one of the continent’s biggest events for the film and television industry, […]

Wizkid Documentary ‘Wizkid: Long Live Lagos’ to World Premiere at Tribeca 2025
Tribeca Festival has announced that Wizkid: Long Live Lagos, a feature documentary on Nigerian music icon Wizkid, will make its world premiere at the 2025 edition of the festival, running from 4–15 June in New […]

‘Makemation’ Official Trailer Inspires with A Tale Of Triumph Through Tech
Dear reader, help us understand your Nollywood preferences by filling out our audience survey—your input is invaluable and deeply appreciated! Click this link. Makemation has stood out for its focus on marketing the artificial intelligence concept of […]

Akinola Davies Jr’s ‘My Father Shadow’ Heads To Cannes
Dear reader, help us understand your Nollywood preferences by filling out our audience survey—your input is invaluable and deeply appreciated! Click this link. Akinola Davies Jr.’s feature directorial debut, My Father’s Shadow, will screen and compete in […]

Wapah Ezeigwe’s ‘Shall We Meet Tonight’ Examines Queer Love and Marital Constraint in Contemporary Nigeria
Dear reader, help us understand your Nollywood preferences by filling out our audience survey—your input is invaluable and deeply appreciated! Click this link. Shall We Meet Tonight is a short film that explores the emotional complexities of […]

How Can African Short Films Become As Widely Spread As Skits?
Dear reader, help us understand your Nollywood preferences by filling out our audience survey—your input is invaluable and deeply appreciated! Click this link. The success and popularity of skits prove that there is a market for short-form […]

Nollywood Film Club Asks, “What’s the Future of Nollywood on YouTube Like?”
The Nollywood audience is invited to participate in a survey to share preferences amidst ongoing discussions about the challenges faced by filmmakers on YouTube. Insights from the Nollywood Film Club reveal mixed views on content success, audience expectations, and the state of Nigerian arts. The situation suggests a need for reevaluation of distribution methods and audience engagement.

FAME Shorts Film Festival 2025 Now Open for Submissions
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Essays
AFRIFF 2021 Day Three: Bolanle Austen-Peters, Mo Abudu, Moses Inwang and Kunle Afolayan Discuss What Makes a Nollywood Blockbuster
The third day of the ongoing AFRIFF (Africa Film International Festival) saw new speakers broach new, interesting topics. The first session, titled Producing for the Big Screen, was anchored by Kate Henshaw, with established industry […]
Tom Hanks’s Best Performances—Ranked
The first Tom Hanks movie I remember seeing was Saving Private Ryan, and I’ve seen it many other times since my first time because of the chords it strikes in me. One of such chords […]
AFRIFF 2021 Day Two: Amazon Prime Video’s Strategy to Rival Netflix in Sub-Saharan Africa
The tenth anniversary of AFRIFF (Africa International Film Festival) opened on Sunday, 7th November 2021. Day 2 saw its first panel session: The Stakeholders: Amazon Prime Video Introduction to African Filmmakers. It was moderated by […]
‘Amina’ (2021) Review: Izu Ojukwu’s Flailing Historical Epic
Revered director, Izu Ojukwu’s Amina is a flailing film that can’t quite capture the breadth of Amina, the Queen of Zazzau’s story. As expected with an historical epic, there are numerous threads that must be […]
Movie Review: Kayode Kasum’s ‘Oga Bolaji’ Settles as a Reluctant Drama
When we think of Kayode Kasum (Ponzi, Quam’s Money, Dwindle, The Therapist), it will most likely be in light of his 2019 film, Sugar Rush, a decent action comedy that put him in place as […]