Directed by Toka McBaror, Underbelly is a period film set in 1976, using the approaching FESTAC event as a backdrop. Ojo (Femi Adebayo) and Afang (Smart Conrad) journey from the Southern region of Nigeria to […]
Zambia’s first Netflix feature film, by homegrown director Kenny Mumba, chooses to explore a poignant issue in Zambian society (and the African society at large, especially Southern and Eastern Africa): the negative stigma experienced by […]
At no point during The Modern Woman was I the least bit moved by anything happening on screen. At no point were things kicked into high gear, causing me to inch forward in my seat, […]
About 24 minutes into In Bed With The Pedros, we hear Hauwa (Rahama Sadau) say that the man Jide (Ademola Adedoyin), her husband, has become, scares her. This should serve as a sort of emotional […]
From the look of this first poster, there is a lot going on in Ozzy Agu’s world. How much is real? How much is fake? The poster for Over The Bridge, which was released today, […]
In syncing into Wura Amoo-Adeleke, Scarlet Gomez presents the audience with a dilemma: pray for Wura’s defeat or her constant ascent to the top. With the character, Wura presents multiple identities. When she is with […]
The first trailer for Insecure is here, directed by Benn Nwokike and produced by Abdul Tijani-Ahmed for School Yard Productions. 6 Questions with Abdul Tijani-Ahmed: Co-writing ‘Brotherhood’, Importance of Set Visits and Writing Without Restraints […]
The first episode of Fatal Seduction begins with a montage of sexual scenes that will appear later on in the show: a man taking off a woman’s underwear, two naked bodies sprawled on a car […]
Romance pervades every form of art—literature, theatre, painting, film, etc. In fact, it pervades all sense of human life, which is why a well-told romantic story strikes a chord with viewers regardless of when, where, […]
I never thought I’d say this: Almajiri is a better exposé on some of the heinous things that go bump in the country’s dark underbelly of violence and crime than Gangs of Lagos or Shanty […]
