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Before The Rain

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Before The Rain  Sky Movies Ltd, Presents Van Vicker (Fabian), Chika Ike (Anita), Desmond Elliot (Raymond), Tonto Dikeh (Mercy). Screenplay, Chidi Chijioke. Director: Ikechukwu Onyeke. Sky Movies Ltd. “They are from decent Christian families aspiring to be university graduates but after admission, they find out that it is not all rosy.“ that’s how the sales pitch at the back of the scabbard of the DVD of  Before the Rain goes. While intensely watching this flick of university kids with my twelve years old daughter, she made […]

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Jealous Wars

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Jealous Wars A Ken Simon Productions presents, Ini Edo, Mike Ezuruonye, Ngozi Ezeonu, Leo Mezie. Director: Iyke Odife. Editor, Okey Benson; Executive Producer, Kenneth Ogbuike; Producer, Kenneth Ogbuike. (c) 2015 Every once in a while, among the myriads of discreditable movies Nollywood, pushes onto the market, there comes one that pleases the critical eye. Jealous Wars is structurally sound as presented. Is it because the producer and the executive producer are one person? Certain elements go into every film production and some are integral

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Unemotional woman and man with dramatic background from African movie "Native Son" on DVD cover.

Native Son

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Native Son Franco Films presents, Ini Edo, Tonto Dikeh, Mike Ezuruonye, Ifeanyi Ikechukwu.Producer, Igboanago Chinedu Nathaniel; Director, Tchidi Chikere; Associate Producer, Tchidi Chikere; Executive Producer, Igboanago Chinedu Nathaniel. Anyone who has ever read Thomas Hardy’s Return of the Native would be reminded of the book at a first glance of the title of this movie, Native Son. And come to watch the Native Son, the story plot is so akin to the classic, Return of the Native, that you’ll predict the

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Strength of Faith & Strength to Strength

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Strength of Faith…  Strength of Faith: Producer: Sunshine Movies Limited, Director: Ikechukwa Onyeka. Cast: Van Vicker, Uche Jombo, Tonto Dikeh. Strength to Strength: Producer: Solomon Apete, Director: Ugezu J. Ugezu, Prod. MGM: Ifeanyi Udoku, Exec. Prod: Ezenwa Collins Chinedu. Cast: Patience Ozorkwo, Mike Ezuruonye, Mercy Johnson, Tonto Dike. I do not know how these two identical titles of movies ended up on my desk but for some reason, they were there, and I kept looking away because the titles in

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Honest African movie scene depicting traditional culture and drama, featuring African actors in vibrant costumes.

The Untold Truth

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The Untold Truth  The Untold Truth explores a family situation we all have either witnessed or have been part of. I witnessed such situation growing up in my hometown: A rich and powerful man in my quarter had an only girl in all-girls dormitory, but she had the habit of stealing anything from her fellow girls: panties, shoes, dresses or anything she lays her hands on in seclusion, and she did this just for the heck of it. My neighbor’s girl continued

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Man and woman African movie star, romantic scene from Nigerian film, youthful couple in urban setting, African actors in stylish outfits, romantic drama film.

For Better or For Worse

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For Better Or For Worse To put it bluntly, this is a movie that attempts at the inner state of mind of the center character, Sandra (Genevieve Nnaji), but we never get acquainted with her motivation for the kind of rebel without cause behavior of Sandra. Nwafor Anayo’s For Better or For Worse (2003), starts with Sandra entering her father’s living-room-turned-dance-hall, full of party guests, and with her nose in the air, she weeds unfavorable members from the guests and asks them out.

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One on One

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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 time, partners grow from adolescence to mature adults, and love is stricken by outside forces, then limitations and reasons set into their hearts and this time, not

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Striking African woman with cloudy sky background, promotional poster for the film Aminata.

Aminata

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 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 to the marriage, but his wife, Aminata’s mother couldn’t because her brother was once murdered by the same chief for dating a girl the chief wanted. However,

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Wicked Intentions

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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 intelligent discourse on the Interpreters. In all my movie reviewing experience, Wicked Intentions baffles me the same way Interpreters does, though in the case of Wicked

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Stars Can’t Save Area Mama Script

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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 the husband’s forehead before escaping with her son from the scene. At her aunt’s home, Celia, her globe-trotting drug courier cousin who doesn’t believe in

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