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A Sting in A Tale

6 Hours to Christmas

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Sparrow Production presents, Damilola Adegbite (Pebbles), Benny Ashun (Troy), Sena Tsikata (Mansa), Nii Odoi Mensah (Francis), Marian Lempogo (Akos), Chris Attoh (Reggie), Asamani Boateng (David). Writer/Producer/Executive Producer, Shirley Nana Akua Manso;  Director of Photography, Kwame Johnson; Editor, Nana Akua Manso; Producer, Creative Director, Chris Attoh. (C) 2010. From my ten or so years reviewing movies, and following, the most popular family movies are farcical. Movies are a mode of entertainment. The rhetoric of film shouldn’t be politically or racially, or ethnically […]

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The Game

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Hotstar International Presents, Majid Michel (Jason), Martha Ankomah (Zina), Adjety Anang (Dennis), Yvonne Okoro (Etta), John Demelo (Andy), Anthony Nkwoeha (Jim). Story, Pascal Amanfo; Screenplay, Folaki Nissi Amanfo; Director of Photography, Tunde Adekoya; Director, Pascal Amanfo; Producer, Michael Odika. (C2010)  In Daddy’s Girl, Martha Ankomah is this little girl who shrewdly plunged her unwitting father into the political limelight, only that the father fell short of becoming a Manchurian Candidate for the political establishment in Ghana. Here in The Game, she’s the femme fatale.

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Who Loves Me?

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  Venus Films Production Presents, Majid Michel (David), Jackie Appiah (Chantel), Artus Frank ( Rick.) Kalsum  Sinare (Akosua). Screenplay (Phil Efe Bernard; Story, Producer, Abdul Sallam  Mumuni; Director, Frank Rajah Arase. Director of Photography, Adam Umar. (C2009) How come Majid Michel knows so much how to play psychopathic roles in films? Indeed one needs to write an essay on African cinema entitled, ‘Majid the Psychopath.’ He plays his characters with so much abandon; you think it is his daily life.

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Losing You

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PJ Movies Productions, Presents, Van Vicker, Tonto Dikeh, Ifeanyi Ikechukwu, Linda Kurt, Juliet Ibrahim. DOP, Chigozie Onoh; Editor, Bode Akintoye; Screenplay/Director, Tchidi Chikere; Producer, Paul Afube. (C 2015) Losing You, as a title, is a verb (losing) expressing a subject (you).  And in fact, it’s like an unfinished wail or cry of someone desperately in love and losing a grip on a loved one to another man, or woman, disease, or to death. Either way, the title of this movie doesn’t connote

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