Editi Effiong’s The Black Book has a lot of bright ideas. On one level, it’s an action flick about a former member of a private undercover elite squad. Even people with power and influence tremble […]
We have seen many films like Juel Taylor’s feature debut, and they all fall into a common subgenre, blaxploitation, a genre of film born in the 70s. Common features of this genre are black protagonists, […]
With the budget that brought The Black Book to life, we won’t be surprised if it goes directly for a streaming release. The high budget covered expenses such as transporting generators to Tarkwa Bay for […]
Charles Okpeleke of Play Network, under his vision to tell historical-based Nigerian stories and make modern versions of Nollywood classics, charges forward with the production of Hijack ‘93, a film that will be based on […]
Watching movies like Extraction feels like a desiderate trip down memory lane, an attempt to capture and revive the essence of a film genre that seems to have been lost. The hero of the Extraction […]
Daddy begins in a Taken-esque manner: daughter gets kidnapped and the father has to do all he can to get his daughter back. This desperation of a father to save his child is the overriding […]
YOU is an American psychological thriller series on Netflix that follows Joe Goldberg, a disturbed young man who, on his quest to find and keep love, and will do almost anything from stalking to cold-blooded […]
Nollywood films of the comedy genre enjoy the spotlight than their counterparts of other genres. Well, there seems to be a general bias from viewers towards them, possibly due to the need to wind down […]
It has been a while since spoilt Russian gangster brat Losef (Alfie Allen) inadvertently brought out fabled assassin John Wick (Keanu Reeves), the Baba Yaga, out of retirement, shortening his grieving for his late wife […]
To Freedom is a somber psychological thriller that tells the story of a man, Tobi (Daniel Etim-Effiong), whose wife, Shola (Osas Ighodaro), suddenly goes missing on a simple trip to the supermarket. His whole life […]
