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.
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
POPULAR gospel film company, The Mount Zion Film Ministry, has released another block buster entitled The Broken Pitcher. The movie is a joint-production of both The Mount Zion Film Productions, Nigeria, and The Northward Film Productions of Redeemed Christian Church of God, Household of Faith, Arlington, Texas. It was a result of a two-week church
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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
A movie shot on a budget of $15,000 or less cannot show many of the elements that it takes to make a film a commercial success. It could be graded more on essence; but filmmakers don’t usually achieve their purpose when such elements are either absent or compromised in films. Desmond Elliot pulls a fine
Onyeze Holdings Presents Onye Eze Akirika (Chiwetalu Agu),Larry Coldsweat (Emeka), Nkiru Sylvanus (Ego), Romanus Amata (Okeke), Nonso Diobi (Ugonna). Director Of Photography, Tola Chukwu Agienoji; Producer, Okey Billy Boniface; Executive Producer, Martin Onyemaobi; Director, Amayo Uzo Philips. C2006 I have never had the time to sit through Nollywood movies. Reason is, either most of the themes
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