We might be quick to settle that romance is universal, but in the details, it is not. Naz Onuzo’s A Lagos Love Story is a love story shaped by its titular city. The familiar plot—man […]
From beloved hits like Yemi My Lover and The Wedding Party to unforgettable characters like Isoken and Selina, Nollywood delivers outstanding love stories from time to time. Yes, this is your Valentine’s Day reminder that among the hundreds of romances the industry releases each year, a few succeed with fresh takes, lasting cultural impact, and, of course, butterflies. We also considered key factors like originality and reception (critics and audiences alike) in compiling this list of Nollywood’s greatest romantic films ever.
Every Valentine’s season, people on social media resurrect a jocular song, “Valentine’s is coming, where’s your boyfriend? Will you be single or be married?” The seasonal song makes for great fun, we accept, but for […]
In the 2021 biopic Ayinla, the first time Lateef Adedimeji meets Omowunmi Dada, his legs involuntarily lift off the floor and he pauses his singing because this regal beauty has taken up space and commanded […]
A lot of romcom fans will agree that the 90s-2000s was an exceptional era for the genre. Whether it was Anna’s “I’m just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love […]
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 […]
If you were born before the 2000s, you would be familiar with a brand of Nollywood romance films that were very popular in the early 2000s. They told stories of playboys, loverboys, beautiful women looking […]
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, […]
Films, and media in general, love to reference the fact they exist outside reality, reminding us of their sometimes fictional nature. We often have characters within a film say, “do you think this is a […]