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Ailey, The Novice, The Legend of the Underground…The 20 Best Films at the 2021 Tribeca Festival
The just-concluded 20th Tribeca festival which ran from the 9th to 20th June offered signs of the industry, culture and New York City bouncing back from the coronavirus pandemic. With…
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#Tribeca2021 Review: Mission: Joy- Finding Happiness in Troubled Times
In 2015, two of the most pious men on the planet, the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibet and Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa met up for a five-day…
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Film Review: Joy, pain, defiance in HBO’s The Legend of the Underground
The infamous Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act signed into law in 2014 revealed the cowardice of the Goodluck Jonathan Presidency. Failing helplessly at the primary charge of providing any dividends…
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Film Review: Is ‘Seven’ RMD’s big Liam Neeson moment?
Hollywood star, Liam Neeson enjoyed a lucrative career resurgence in 2008 when Taken, a pulpy B-list actioner in which he played an avenging Dad slash retired CIA operative became a…
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How to talk to God | Review of BB Sasore’s God Calling
There are few things subtle about God Calling, a faith-based drama in which a non-believing housewife is literally arrested by God and put to use preaching the Gospel. And how…
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‘Glamour Girls’ remake will be written, directed and produced by women. Here’s why it matters
Prolific producer Charles Okpaleke has been about Nollywood dominion. After the well-received sequel of occult horror Living in Bondage in 2019, Okpaleke announced that he had acquired the rights to…
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La Femme Anjola, Eagle Wings, The Razz Guy, The Therapist – Nollywood movies out in cinemas this March
The King of Boys sequel is out this year as a Netflix original, and Kemi Adetiba just recently released a documentary teaser to offer a glimpse of how the film…
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Nigeria’s ‘The Milkmaid’ loses out on Oscars 2021 Best International Feature
Desmond Ovbiagele's insurgency thriller The Milkmaid was easily the best Nollywood film of 2020, having scaled through the Oscars eligibility stage and garnered support from Nigerians and the local film…
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Lizard, Passing, Judas and the Black Messiah…The 15 Best Films at this year’s Sundance
This year’s the Sundance film festival, America’s most important film market for independent film adopted a hybrid model that favored digital and satellite screenings as opposed to the physical gathering…
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The trailer for crime thriller ‘La Femme Anjola’ is finally here
Mildred Okwo's hotly anticipated crime thriller La Femme Anjola has been in limbo for a long time, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic of last year that interfered with its post-production…
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Namaste Wahala, Fine Wine – the Nollywood films coming this February
We have survived the first month of 2021, and RIP to all the movies released in January because no one watched them. Maybe except Omo Ghetto, which toppled The Wedding…
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Short film ‘Lizard’ is Nigeria’s only submission at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival
The 2021 Sundance Film Festival is currently underway in the US, scheduled for January 28th all through to Febuary 3rd. And with the coronavirus pandemic still unrelenting, it has adapted…
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John Boyega has joined the cast of Netflix crime drama ‘The Formula’
In some casting news, John Boyega has joined the cast of the Gerard McMurray's crime drama The Formula coming to Netflix. The Formula follows a Formula One racing prodigy (Boyega)…
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Predicting Nollywood in the second year of coronavirus
Around this time last year, Nollywood was looking to rise from the ashes of the Lionheart Oscar fracas from late 2019. Movies had been planned for a 2020 cinema release,…
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Regina Askia-Williams is making her return to Nollywood with upcoming film ‘Web’
After making a huge name in late 90's Nollywood and well into the 2000's, starring in movies like Highway to the Grave and Full Moon, Regina Askia-Williams dropped off the…
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Crime thriller ‘Sanitation Day’ offers new teaser ahead of cinema release
Earlier in the year, we reported that Seyi Babatope's crime thriller Sanitation Day has been slated for a January release in cinemas. With the coronavirus pandemic still unrelenting and moviegoers…
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When will Nollywood-Bollywood film ‘Namaste Wahala’ be released?
Of all the Nollywood films pushed back because of the coronavirus pandemic last year, Namaste Wahala, a romantic comedy by Indian director Hamisha Daryani Ahuja, is yet to be released.…
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Charles Okpaleke is making a biopic about notorious 90’s criminal Shina Rambo
In an Instagram post published today, Charles Okpaleke (Living in Bondage: Breaking Free, Rattlesnake: The Ahanna Story) revealed that he has obtained the rights to portray the roughneck life of…
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Toka McBaror taps into claustrophobic dread in trailer for horror film ‘Creepy Lives Here’
Strange enough, we are getting a Nollywood horror film in 2021. Even more surprising is that it is coming from an unlikely director: Toka McBaror, whose oeuvre has maintained the…
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The final trailer for Paul Papel’s action drama ‘Eagle Wings’ is here
Paul Papel's action drama Eagle Wings has been reported since last year, enrapturing the internet with its first footage showing fighter aircrafts, explosions, and sporadic gunfire. The film's outsize tableau…
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Why David Oyelowo played a Nigerian astronaut in Netflix film ‘The Midnight Sky’
David Oyelowo isn't a stranger to the world of sci-fi. In 2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes, he plays a profit-obsessed business mogul and antagonist and in 2014,…
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Review: ‘Nneka the Pretty Serpent’ fails to bite
Zeb Ejiro’s majestic horror picture Nneka the Pretty Serpent knows what it is: an original film. Tosin Igho’s Nneka the Pretty Serpent which hit cinemas last Friday calls itself a…
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Seyi Babatope’s crime thriller ‘Sanitation Day’ hits cinemas in 2021
A collaboration between Phebean Films and FilmOne Productions, Seyi Babatope's upcoming crime thriller Sanitation Day is looking towards a January 2021 release, according to Pulse. Set in 2016, the thriller…
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Charles Okpaleke is working on an original film ‘The Six’ out in 2021
Charles Okpaleke and his production company Play Network Studios have been in the fast business of remaking old Nollywood material. With femme fatale horror Nneka the Pretty Serpent out in…
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Nneka the Pretty Serpent, Omo Ghetto, Finding Hubby – Nollywood movies coming to cinemas this December
It's the holiday season and while Nollywood doesn't have a catalogue of good Christmas movies, December's slate of offerings are indeed something to look forward to. Coronavirus is the elephant…
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Film review: ‘This Lady Called Life’ is a modest charmer
In Kayode Kasum’s perfectly acceptable This Lady Called Life, Bisola Aiyeola is Aiye; a young single mother struggling to get by in the big city. Like many residents of Lagos,…
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Film review: You haven’t seen anything quite like The Milkmaid
If the Nigerian Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) has its way, you will not see The Milkmaid, the sophomore feature length effort by investment banker turned filmmaker, Desmond Ovbiagele.…
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Kunle Afolayan joins the #MeToo Movement with Citation
In 2018, allegations of sexual harassment by many men in high positions became rife in media reports and the year has been tagged the #MeToo year. A lot of discussions…
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Lovers Rock, Night of the Kings, Beginning…The most notable films of #NYFF58
In keeping with the non-competitive nature of the New York Film Festival (NYFF) which ran from September 17 to October 11, 2020, we assemble an alphabetic ranking of some of…
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