‘The King’s Man’ (2021) Review: A Royal Dive into the Past
Let’s face it, there is usually a hidden problem with the second or third or fourth part of most movies and it is a phenomenon that we have come to see over the years. Movies […]
‘Superstar’ Review: Nancy Isime Shines in a Middling Drama from Akay Mason
Sofia Coppola (Somewhere, The Beguiled) often frames her characters gazing out of car windows, quiet and deep in contemplation, desperately searching for answers to their plight as the outside world carries on with its business. […]
‘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 […]
Movie Review: ‘Christmas in Miami’ is Devoid of Everything that Makes an Intelligent Comedy
At this point, a silent comedy film would do for Ayo Makun’s reprisal role as Akpos and that is if there would be another (which would most likely happen at this point). With his comedic […]
‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Review: A Proper Trilogy for the Spider-Man Franchise
Blockbusters like Fast and Furious 9, No Time to Die, Black Widow, and Venom: Let There Be Carnage are a few movies people looked forward to in the thick of the COVID. These are movies […]
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 […]
Series Review: ‘How to Ruin Christmas: The Funeral’
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 […]
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