Video Of The Week: 12 Binge-Worthy Movies To Watch During The Lockdown
The lockdown which President Buhari declared in Lagos, Abuja, and Ogun may come to an end this week. If you live in one of these states, you must be getting ready to return to your normal way of life. This, however, does not mean that you cannot make the lockdown a memorable one for you […]
Video Of The Week: The Legend Of Inikpi | Mercy Johnson Okojie | Nigerian Movie Review
The Legend of Inikpi is one of the first movies to be released in the year 2020. The film, which is Mercy Johnson’s first produced full-length feature, is an epic tale that centres on the ancient cultures of the Igala and Bini Kingdoms. It features a cast of A-list actors including Mercy Johnson Okojie, Sam […]
Video Of The Week: 8 Most Anticipated Nigerian Movies Of December 2019
One of the ways you can spend your “Detty December” is by seeing the latest movies in the cinema. Moreover, December is always packed with the most anticipated movies of the year, which means there is a lot to watch. Read more on other Videos of the week In our video of the week, Adenike […]
Websites We Love: iRoko TV
There was a time on the internet when streaming movies meant “streaming on foreign services like Blockbuster and Netflix”. During this period, there were hardly any Nigerian movies available for streaming online. In recent times, however, there have been a few streaming services which emerged to do what Netflix is doing the “African way”. One […]
IKE NNAEBUE – I’m an Incurable Optimist…
In the ‘New Nollywood’, a modern variant of the Nigerian movie industry, I am amazed at how often social media is flooded with fresh movie alerts. We have been ushered into a divergent dispensation of the cinemas which our parents enjoyed in Nigeria, based on the consistent display of contemporary work. In the midst of […]
MOVIES TO WATCH: 200 Million, The Eve
200 MILLION “200 Million” is a comedy movie that features comedians Owen Gee, Frank Donga, Chigul, Alibaba. It follows the challenging lives of two men who explore a life of crime as an escape to issues limiting them from finding comfort and fulfillment. A series of very abnormal events soon leave an indelible mark on […]
Movies to Watch: New Money, Dr Mekam
Here are some great movies to keep you entertained this weekend: New Money New Money is a collaboration between FilmOne and Inkblot, two big names in the movie industry. The comedy movie tells a story of Toun Odumosu (Jemima Osunde), a struggling young designer, whose life changes after the death of his absentee tycoon father […]
Movies to Watch This Weekend: Royal Hibiscus Hotel and Memoirs of 4
You wake up at ungodly hours and jump into the bathroom, the cold water shocks your body into a freeze, your shirt is too rumpled, you can’t find your belt, your car refuses to start, you get to work by 9 am, your boss frowns at you the whole day and you almost have a stroke […]
Tunde Kelani summons “The Lion and The Jewel”
There are tons of books that have been made into movies, surely, a great adaptation of a good literary book into a movie can be very exciting. If done very well, you can literally feel the imaginative characters you have created jump right off the screen. It requires an amazing type of exquisite talent to […]
Throwback Thursday: Old Nollywood Movies We Loved
Yay how I love Thursdays as if it’s a Friday but that’s just because Thursdays are throwbacks – meaning it’s the perfect time of reminiscing on good ol’ fun memories and epic blasts from the past ranging from best trends to the finest music and so forth. While having one of those nostalgic feelings, I […]
The Nollywood Industry: Quantity vs Quality (Causes).
In the previous post, we basically saw a feature of the Nigerian movie industry and the struggle between quality movies which are few, and low-quality movies which are very many in the Nigerian movie market. Today, we look at the reasons for this discrepancy in production rate amongst these two kinds of movies. Cost: Cost […]
Banana Island Ghost and Hakkunde, Movies For This Weekend
Woohoo!!! This sure was a long week but thank God it has finally come to an end. Weekends are basically a time to take a break and relax, even better if you have fun itineraries planned. For me I just get to stay in and catch up on all the sleep I missed (yep I […]
Meet the Boss: Grace Edwin-Okon, Derwin Productions
Grace Edwin-Okon, nee Oboba, has been in the entertainment industry since 1999. A graduate of English Language from Delta State University, Grace studied at Watermark Business School and has attended writing and film making workshops with BBC and Ford Foundation. She is the CEO of Derwin Productions, an organization dedicated to the production of educational […]
ABOUT LAST WEEKEND: Lost In London and Filmhouse IMAX Lekki
Kay and I had a long Saturday. From shopping to laundry to working into the midnight, the last thing I wanted to do was go out on Sunday after Church service. But go out we did. Phew! We took the long drive to Silverbird only to find out Lost In London wasn’t showing because there […]
Uduak Isong Releases ‘Lost In London’
Closer Pictures proudly announces the release of LOST IN LONDON, starring Ime Bishop Umoh & Alex Ekubo, along with FunnyBone, Ella Betts, Kemi OlofinMakin, James Morgan and many others. Lost in London is a hilarious tale about Okon & Bona, young students who get selected for an exchange program in London. They attempt to earn […]
’76 and 93 Days Lead in Nominations for the AMVCA 2017
The nominations for the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCA) 2017 were announced on the 14th of December 2016, with Nigeria’s ’76 and 93 Days leading with 14 and 12 nominations respectively. The movies- 93 Days, ’76, Oloibiri, A Trip to Jamaica and The CEO– all Nigerian movies, were nominated for Best Movie West Africa. Jenifa’s Diary, […]