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All Day and a Night review

All Day And A Night Is A Tiresome Movie

When you watch a good movie, you would come out of it entertained, thoughtful, or feeling that you have learned something new, or a combination of two or three of these. When I watched “All Day and a Night”, I came out of it feeling tired. Oh yes, it is that tiring nearly every second ...

Money Heist lovers, gather here

Why You Should Join The Wagon Of Money Heist Lovers

In case you have been living under a rock in Siberia with no sound or visual allowed, you still won’t be forgiven for not knowing about the TV wave of the moment – “Money Heist”. Season four of “Money Heist” is out and the whole world, or a large chunk of the world, is talking ...

AMVCA format

Timini Egbuson As Best Actor In A Movie? It’s Time For AMVCA To Change Their Format

I didn’t watch Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards live because the day coincided with a bosom friend’s father’s funeral. But I followed it on Twitter. When I returned, I read our post on the winners and I missed an important error in the post. The post had given the name of Swanky JKA as the ...

Soma Anyama

It Is Time For Soma Anyama To Ditch My Siblings And I and Become A Serious Actor

Big Brother Naija: See Gobbe housemate Soma Anyama is one of the ex-reality stars finding their feet in Nollywood. We have seen his fellow housemate TBoss on screen – she was the slain queen of Ocholuje in Mnet Original Drama “Ajoche” among other appearances. I saw Alex of Double Wahala in “Merry Men 2” and ...

The Legend of Inipki

The Legend Of Inikpi: A Great Concept And A Missed Opportunity

When we did a profile of Mercy Johnson, the writer made a point about how Mercy Johnson is slow in making the switch to the big screen of the cinema and she concluded that Mercy has the body, the talents and the personality for the big screen. With “The Legend of Inikpi”, Mercy Johnson has ...

Face of Igbo girls

Why Are Igbo Girls Absent In The Nigerian Music Stage?

Mention three female Nigerian musicians of Igbo extraction? I can say Chidinma and Stormrex from the defunct Desperate Chicks group. You will say Sinach; we are talking Nigerian hip hop (releasing the brake may result in you going all Chioma Jesus, Chinyere Udoma, Rosemary Chukwu and the likes – not tonight). If, in contrast, I ...

Your Excellency Movie: What Doesn’t Kill You May Make You Think

I was reluctant about watching “Your Excellency” because of its cover picture. See, one of the worst Nigerian movies I have seen in the past two years is “Chief Daddy”, I am not a fan of “Jenifa’s Diary” and I have already said my mind about “My Siblings and I“. All these shows have one ...

Merry Men 2

Merry Men 2: Is It Worth Your Time?

I was in the village when “Merry Men 2” came out. It was one movie I billed to watch but the season caught me in the village and I forgot about it in the noise, glamor, and intrigues of weddings, house warming, and meeting old aunties and avoiding the go-get-married gang. I got on Twitter ...

marriage-story

Marriage Story: Is The Oscar Buzz Justified?

We do celebrities on this site and our database is full of mentions of divorces. Mentions. We just mention that so and so has been married thrice and divorce twice. I have sometimes wondered why celebrities can’t just seem to remain married. And it is not an American thing anymore, the whole world is plagued ...

The Irishman

The Irishman Review: A Tall Order, Served With Rugged Brilliance

Today is not the day to ramble about originality and the lack of it in Hollywood. Most films in Hollywood you see today are novels adaptation such as this movie, or live-action remakings of cartoons, or new perspectives of a marvel character, or like this one inspired by a work of journalism, or sequel/spin-off, etc. ...

Once Upon a time in Hollywood

Once Upon A Time… in Hollywood: A Blend of Incoherence, Violence, and Class

The first Quentin Tarantino film I watched was “Django Unchained”. I was in the university then and the likes of Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr, and Ralph Ellison were our heroes. Racism was one of the most popular subjects and we were united as Africans in our support for what our African American brothers ...

Joker

Joker Review: A Powerful Concept, Terrible Execution

A glance at the top-grossing films of 2019 reveals that action and adventure are movie-goers favorites. “Avengers: Endgame” “Spider-man: Far From Home”, “The Lion King”, “Aladdin”, “Captain Marvel” and their ilks. It seems movie-goers are becoming lazier as the days past, too lazy to trust original ideas, too lazy to follow a story that solves ...