One On One The first love between two adolescents is so powerful and pure. It’s the kind of love without reason, for they’re blind and innocent, virgin to the true intricacies of living a life. It is pure romance. The kind of love which the name of a partner, ‘Vivian’,’ Michael’, evokes magic and charm. With […]
Aminata Aminata is a pastoral story of a tyrant Chief, Adikali Momo who can marry any woman or underage girl for his taste in his chiefdom. This time, he wants Kelfala (Mohamed Bobson Kamara), the village drunk’s daughter, Aminata (Aissatou Bah) to be his nineteenth wife. Being a poor husband, Kelfala is easy to consent
By Ali Baylay The last time I was ridiculed, confused, and puzzled by a literary genre was when I read Wole Soyinka’s Interpreters. I read it twice with no success at understanding the novel, until an O’level class friend of mine recommended Fourah Bay College Edred Jones’ treatise, Interpreters Interpreted. Even at that, I can’t hardly have
By Ali Baylay The second major location in Area Mama (De-Kross Movies) introduces the viewer to an ill-clad wife, Adanne (Mercy Johnson), as she sits in a barren living room feeding her son with garri when her husband drunkenly staggers into the room and jumps on her in a fight. The abuse continues until Adanne bloodies
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Corporate Maid It’s Mercy Johnson again! This time she’s a three-dimensional character in a convoluted story. She plays Miss Rose, a straight-jacketed English maid who has a lesbian affair with the lady of the house; then she sleeps with the husband of the house and tops it off by sleeping with the house cook in her quarters. Corporate
Sins of Rachael Director Emeka H. Umeasor takes a close and personal look at Sins of Rachael. You can find it so in the composition of the shots as they interpret on screen. The excessive use of extreme close-ups and medium close-ups bring even viewers closer to the events and characters on screen. Beautiful shots befitting beautiful story.
AFRO HOLLYWOOD AWARD HOLDS IN LONDON, NOVEMBER: Patience Ozokwor, Van Vicker, Uche Jumbo, Yemi Solade, Saidi Balogun, Mike Ezouruonye etal bag awards. African Film Awards also known as Afro Hollywood Awards will hold at the Indigo-02 Arena in London, on Wednesday 12th of November 2008 with a-list actors and actresses from across the continent of
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My Story My Story is a hybrid form of Fatal Attraction. Vickey, a married woman, introduces Stanley to her elegant pad like a lion lures a prey to his den. Once in the den she eventually succeeds in seducing him with a kiss (I nominate this kiss as Nollywood’s on-screen kiss of the year) and
Caught in the Act The proverbial ‘caught in the act’ suggests sexual impropriety. My libido flares at the connotation of the meaning. Imagine an enraged husband bursting into a flea-infested motel room, catching his wife and his driver making out. Choosing Caught in the Act wasn’t a choice based on the star-studded lineup,
Faithful Betrayal Faithful Betrayal starts out as a story of a young girl (Clara) who falls in love with a widower her father’s age. Her parents are quick to accept this mysterious suitor and the relationship is consummated with a low profile marriage ceremony. Barely a week after the wedding, Clara’s husband is almost paralyzed