Criticisms against Nollywood have often zeroed in on the quality of its storytelling — its attention to detail and overall coherence and smarts. Blood Sisters is...
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By Vivian Nneka Nwajiaku If you have been paying any attention to Nollywood or Netflix, or if you’ve just been minding your business but somehow found yourself scrolling...
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“Blood Sisters” Review: Netflix’s First Nigerian Original Series is EbonyLife’s Dramatic Comeback
…even if most of the details of the plot will be easily forgotten, Blood Sisters will be remembered for standing out in a sea of unimpressive Netflix-Nollywood...
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“City Hustlers” Review: Asuelime’s Underwhelming, Starstruck Version of Mike Ezuruonye’s “Lagos Real Fake Life”
With a plot similar to Jumoke Olatunde’s 2016 Diary of a Lagos Girl, and Mike Ezuruonye’s 2018 Lagos Real Fake Life, City Hustlers is rather underwhelming… By...
Interestingly, Fifty, directed by Nigerian novelist and film director, Biyi Bandele, became one of the first films to be streamed on the platform… By Vivian Nneka...
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Superstar: Nollywood Movie Review: An Enjoyable Celebrity Story With A Little Too Much To Say
Superstar: Nollywood Movie filled with comedy, tragedy, romantic drama, quasi-social issues drama, and everything else in-between. It attempts to cover as much ground as...
Swallow is a historical drama, but its story is not dependent on any significant event peculiar to the period in which it is set, neither does it care much about evoking...
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Movie Review: Kemi Adetiba’s “King Of Boys: The Return Of The King” Is Enjoyable, But It Lacks Bite
By Vivian Nneka Nwajiaku King of Boys, Kemi Adetiba’s crime drama, made great impact on Nollywood when it was first released in 2018. It was by no means flawless...
It is commonplace to find that romantic films are set in big cities, and when the movie focuses on the city in question as the focal point of the story, the stakes are...
By Jerry Chiemeke In a country like Nigeria that is bedeviled by poverty, unemployment, and insecurity, it is commonplace to see people latch on to any sort of...
