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Battleman

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By Ali Baylay Starring: Van Vicker, Chika Ike,Queen Nwaokoye; Screenplay: Tchidi Chikere; Make up: Kingsley Godwin; Costume: Chinela Nwagboso; Editor: Nelson Joe; Director: Tchudi Chikere; Producer: Paul Ejike Afube; 124 mins C 2010. Austin (Van Vicker) gets home from war torn Liberia amidst joy as he’s welcomed home by both his wife Laura (Chika Ike) and little son. He’s been gone two years now. His son has grown and Laura’s libido gone amok. In the bed room the first night after […]

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My Fantasy

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By Ali Baylay A DEVINE TOUCH PRODUCTION. Starring: John Dumelo, Tonto Dikeh, Jibola Dabo, Ashley Nwosu; Production Manager: Emeka Ojiafor; Story/Screenplay: Chisom Juliet Okereke; Editor: Okiki David; Continuity:  Winning Team; Executive Producers: Kingsley Okereke, Emeka Igwemba; Director: Theodore Anyanji. 130 mins. c2009 Even though My Fantasy is a movie based on phantasma, you’ll ask yourself where on earth such power in one person exists as in Sir Rufus, when he could imprison another citizen at will.  I guess this will

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Restore My Love

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By Ali Baylay Executive Image Movies &Franco Films: Starring: Emeka Ike, Juliet Ibrahim, Emeka Akolo, Charity Eke, Nora Ugo; Production Manager: Chininso Okoli; Producer/Exec. Producer: Kenneth Okonkwo; Editor: Ilo Collins E.; Director:Emeka Muangwu; Principal Locations: Ghana/Nigeria. 112 mins; c2009. What if God grants you the most wonderful, beautiful, obedient, god-fearing , respectful and hardworking wife and because of  a preconceived notion about certain types of women, especially those who work in the banks, as planted in your  mind by a friend who

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The Followers

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By Ali Baylay Executive Image Movies and Franco Films Presents: Emeka Ike, Nadia Buari, Chika Ike, Fredo Arico, Emeka Ani; Production Manager: Ben Ayosinti; Producer: Kenneth Okonkwo; Editor: Nnoshiri Charles Brain; Exec. Producer: Kenneth Okonkwo; Director: Ugo Ugbor; Principal Locations: Ghana/Nigeria; 133 mins. c2009. The Followers is a topic that invokes religious connotations as in ‘disciples’, but don’t be fooled brother, this is a film glorifying animism and devil worship with Christian church simply as a front. To a large

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Material Girl

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By Ali Baylay A VENUS PRODUCTION, STARRING:Yvonne Nelson, John Dumelo, Kofi Adjorlolo, Amonebea Dodoo, Gavivina Tamaklo, Brenda Osei Bonsu; Production Manager: Loius Saah Acquahman; Story: Abdul Salam Mumuni: Screenplay: Phil Efe Bernard; Continuity: Maxwell Awuni; Editor: Dapo-Ola Daniels; DOP: Adams Umar; Associate Producer: Roger Quartey; Producer/Executive Producer: Abdul Salam Mumini; Director: Frank Raja Arasi; 144 mins. C2009. I believe Material Girl is more like a treatise in philosophy 101, than a simple drama. The movie is replete with the word

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Guilty Pleasures

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By Ali Baylay Starring: Ramsey Nouah, Magid Michel, Nse Ikpe-Etim, Mercy Johnson, Desmond Elliot,Omoni Oboli; Screenplay: Uyai Ikpe-Etim/Bula Aduwo; DOP: Austine Nwaolie/Issac Martins; Executive Producers: Emem Isong, Desmond Elliot; Editor: Uche-Alex Moore; Producers: Emem Isong, Desmond Elliot; Director: Daniel Ademinokan; Assistant Director: Desmond Elliot. c.2009 Guilty Pleasures is one of the few Nollywood productions that’ll surely go into cinematic history as a classic. To a large extent, it has the makeup and flare of Citizen Kane. Terso in Guilty Pleasures

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Unwritten

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By Ali Baylay EXECUTIVE IMAGE MOVIES and FRANCO FILMS. Starring: Olu Jacobs, Larry Koldsweat, Alex Osifo, Saidu Balogun, Francis Duru, Bimbo Akintola; Screenplay/Director: Akinlosotu Femi Despy; Producer: Larry Koldsweat. 145 mins; C 2009. AFTERWARD: Nnamdi marries Sandra, Scorpion marries Iky. The law finally caught up with Sandra and Scorpion and they served two years each, Chairman served 20 years. Nnamdi pays the medical bill of his bad uncle, Iche Okorie, and also pays the university tuition for the uncle’s daughter.

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Koko Babes

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By Ali Baylay EXECUTIVE IMAGE MOVIES & FRANCO FILMS presents Emeka Ike, Uche Jombo, Uche Elendu, Queen Nwokoye, Emeka Enyiocha, Adoara Okoh; Story: Collins Chidebe; Production Manager: Solomon Apeti; Associate Producer: Uche Elendu; Director: Mac-Collins Chidebe;  129 mins. 2008 Screenwriter, Nkem Alu’s use of a clever motif (oversize picture of a naked man placed at a focal point in the primary location of the movie) quite justifies its theme: nestfull of not-too-young-spinsters, whose biological clocks are out of whack,  laying in their nest

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Left Alone

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By Ali Baylay Production: Busy Brain Entertainment; Cast: Jim Iyke, Omotola Jolade, Emeka Enyiocha; Director: Livinus Nwabueze; Executive Producer: Livinus Nwabueze; 1.15 mins. The plot of gangster movies come straight from the day to day happenings in the society as brought to us in our newspapers and evening news headlines,   and this is a subject that interests not only film makers but even the general public. In the US, gangster movies thrived in the era of the Great Depression, when

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The Princess Of My Life

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By Ali Baylay A Devine Touch Film; Starring: Ini Edo, Desmond Elliot, Tonto Dikeh, Muna Obiekwe, Kofi Adjorlolo, Casandra Odita; Editor: Uche Ike; Producers: Emeka Igwemba, Kinsley Okereke, Ikechukwu Onyeka; Executive Producers: Eriobi Chibuzor, Nwegwu Hinweike; Assitant Director: B.B.C Nwachineke; Director: Ikechukwu Onyeka. 146 mins. c2008 Have you ever been asked by a friend what the book you’re reading is about, and you can’t tell in one sentence unless you tell the whole story? That is how The Princess Of

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