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Majid Rides Okada For A Living!

Leave a Comment / General, Reviews / By Ali Baylay

Royal Arts Academy Production Presents, Genevive Nnaji (Zara Williams), Majid Michel (Tyron), Desmond Elliot Bernard), Nse Ikpe Etim (Tena), Omoni Oboli (Ini); Story, Emem Isong; Screenplay, Uduak Isong Oguamanam/ Bola Aduwo; Director of Photography, Alex Effiong; Producer, Emem Isong; Directors, Daniel Ademinokan, Desmond Elliot. I’ve never been so humiliated in my life…I’m tired Zaira, I’m tired of fighting, I’m tired of trying to live to everyone’s expectation, I’m a disappointment to everyone including myself…I have a career going down the […]

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Stephanie Okereke Is In Bank Business

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Starring Stephanie Okereke (Monica), Yul Edoche (Sup Mark), Cha Cha Ekeh (Portia), Sylvester Madu (Jazzman). Story/Screenplay, Sylvester Madu; Director of Photography, Laure Oluwale; Editor, Samuel Emanuel Aja; Producer, Onyeka Joe Orajiaka; Director, Ifeanyi Ikpoenyi “Bank Business” is a story about a bank heist. The caper is pulled off successfully but the leader of the gang is shot and arrested. They are in the process of freeing him from police custody, which they successfully did but ran later into

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Jackie Appiah Sets up Her Husband

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With the phallic desire in all men, and upon seeing “4 Play Reloaded” title on a store shelf, my libido flared. I grabbed it off the shelf, looked this way and that way and then shove it in my backpack because I didn’t want some nosy parker thinking I was a dirty old man. I looked forward to some kinky evening in private. I was still not convinced as to what might unfold in my living room with my daughter

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Ini Edo Is A Gangster!

Leave a Comment / Reviews / By Ali Baylay

There’re lots of Nollywood movies that don’t bite on anything, but boy I tell you, this is a bomb and stands out as a classic productions. I always observe in my line of reviewing films that, not the story, the actors, the set, the camera and locations put together are enough but the director is the one who always give a film its distinctive look. With so many films to his credit, I give director, Mac Collins Chidebe, kudos for this remarkable

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Van Viker and Jim Iyke At War

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“College Wars” is not about physical war as the name connotes than about war over character. An armed robbery takes place and a prominent politician’s son is murdered in the process, but at the scene of the murder another popular and prominent student’s passport is found. Now the police and the dead boy’s mother accuse Mike (Van Vicker) who happens to be the best friend of the murdered student as a suspect, and he goes into hiding. The small world

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Temple of Justice exposes the follies and failures of African social institutions

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“Temple of Justice” is a story in a different realm all by itself. The type of story when one has to step up to the plate and defend her belief against her environment and does not care if she ever went against the grain of her society. Doing what she does and her belief as she has are her only weapons. To stand against the mores of her society is a tall order counting on the idiosyncrasies of the African

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ILLUSION

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A Maxkuchy Entertainment Productions Presents: Paul Sambo (Doctor David), Perry Oyiri (Juliet), Tonto Dikeh (Ada/Kate). Producer, Tessy Nnachi; Director, Ejike Chinedu Obim. “Illusion” follows its title and definition to the core. Of course, Ada/Kate (Tonto Dikeh) character doesn’t really think she exists at all. She can’t recognize her husband and still believes she’s normal like everybody else. [Spoilers ahead] Doctor David (Paul Sambo) thinks he’s never seen somebody this beautiful, with such succulent lips than Ada/Kate. He’s being bewitched and

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FULTON MANSION

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An Okiji Amaka Ind. (WA) Ltd. Production presents: Stephenie Okerere (Celia); Ini Edo (Serena); Ajibola Ozorkor (Foulton); Screenplay/Director, Okey Zubelu Okoli. Some years ago I produced a 35mm black and white movie, yet unfinished. The theme of my film and “Fulton Mansion” are the same-showbiz: the rise of a ghetto girl to an overnight stardom. The plot of “Fulton Mansion”, is different from mine though, and I even admire writer, Okey Zubelu’s lead character Celia (Stephenie Okerere) because, he so

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AMERICAN BOY

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A Miracle Film Presents: Mr Bob (Psalm Ajeteio), Abi Adatsi (Monica), Morris Owusu (Charles), Nadia Buari (Akua), Van Vicker (Abusei), Emma Dickson (Mama Jane). Story, Samuel Nyamekye; Screenplay, Fred Asante Kotoko; Director, Samuel Nyamekye. On a serious note, if there’s a movie that’ll tickle you to death, that movie will be “American Boy.” It’s down right funny. The kind of funny that will not impose itself on you, because the characters are too serious about their roles, but kind of

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THE FIGURINE

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By Ali Baylay A Golden Effect Production Presents: Ramsey Noah (Femi), Kunle Afolayan (Sola), Omoni Aboli (Mona), Funlola Aofiyebi Raimi (Linda), Tosin Sido (Lara). Story Concept, Jovi Babs; Screenplay, Kemi Adsoye; Director of Photography, Yinka Edwards; Editors, Sodiya Koyode Adeleke; Director, Kunle Afolayan. To review The Figurine, I asked myself so many times if I was doing the right thing. To me, considering all the respect accorded this movie by the African film world at the 6th edition of AMAA,

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