Tag: MOVIE REVIEW
Movie review: Kpali is an eloquent commentary on millennial angst
By Toni Kan
Forget the story.
Forget the acting.
Forget the hype.
Go see Kpali the movie for the aerial shots that make Lagos look nothing like the...
Movie review: The Bling Lagosians joins the bandwagon
By
Femi Babadudu
Three years after co-producing the Ebola movie 93 Days, Bolanle Austen-Peters makes her directorial debut on cinema with The Bling Lagosians.
Before now, she...
Movie review: The Delivery Boy is a bold, timely and important...
By Toni Kan
The trope of the Mephistophelian criminal mastermind is a
well-worn one from the eponymous Mephistopheles to Iago as instigator in
Shakespeare’s Othello and Fagin...
Movie review: Kunle Afolayan’s Mokalik is primal and organic
By Toni Kan
In concluding my 2016 review of Kunle Afolayan’s The CEO, I wrote that “Kunle Afolayan
has delivered another major movie in The
CEO but...
Movie review: Hope is a scarce commodity in Ema Edosio’s Kasala
By Toni Kan
Oscar winner, Antoine Fuqua, began his film career making music videos, so did Spike Jonze. Here in Nigeria, Ema Edosio has plied...
Movie review: My Wife & I offers much, delivers little, by...
Bunmi Ajakaiye directs this daring tale of a couple (Toyosi Akinyele, played by Ramsey Nouah) and Ebere Akinyele, played by Omoni Oboli) constantly at...
When women gather, there is war! – A review of The...
Every movie has an emotional core, its beating heart.
In The Women, Blessing Egbe’s latest movie which opened in cinemas on Friday, the core lies...
Movie review: In Line, the awesome Nollywood movie many won’t see,...
There were just 11 of us in the hall the day I went to see the new Tope Oshin movie, In Line, currently showing...
Movie review: Hakkunde tells an inspiring Nigerian story, by Femi Idowu
Award-winning Asurf Oluseyi‘s first full-length movie, Hakkunde, is a tale of Akande (Frank Donga/Kunle Idowu) a young graduate who struggles to get a job after...
Movie review: Alter Ego plagued with multiple errors, by Femi Idowu
Nollywood diva, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, makes a comeback after a three-year hiatus by teaming up with director, Moses Inwang, in the much-anticipated Alter Ego.
Omotola plays...