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 […]
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,
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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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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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 Maid explores comedy, tragedy, and lesbianism. In this African film, the whining wife of Chris (Van Vicker) is never satisfied with the services of the maids in
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. Screenwriter, Andy Nwakalor weaves a beautiful drama here too for our viewing pleasure. He tells the story of Rachael (Joy Torty), a fountainhead character and a straight-faced born-again
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 Stanley’s innocence is deflowered. He has eaten of the apple and like Adam before we are left corrupted. His entire world revolves around this married woman.
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 drama training course held for the church drama team by Evangelist Mike and Gloria Bamiloye of The Mount Zion Institute of Christian Drama in July
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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, but rather was based solely on the title. It is a thought-provoking title that anybody might snatch off a store shelf. I admit I’m a victim!
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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 after a fall in the bathtub. Eventually, Clara takes a boyfriend and he’s employed to assist her father in the family business. When the husband
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