Guilty pleasures

Soul Desire

Leave a Comment / General / By Ali Baylay

A Young Father Production Presents, Ruff Samuel (Jeffery), Tonto Dikeh (Emelda), James Gardener (Mike), Smith Asante (Dave). Story/Screenplay, David Owusu; Production, Samuel Ruff Quansah; Director, Ish Tompson. (C2010) This movie throws caution to the wind for overweight and overworked bosses who come home, and slump in bed by their beautiful wives, and snore till morning comes. They’ll be rushing out the door with a cup of coffee in one hand and the handgrip in the other, and they’ll manage to […]

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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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Keeping My Man

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Nwabugwu Okoroafor/ Silas Obasi production presents Genevieve Nnaji (Vannessa), Sam Dede (Ken), Enebeli Elebuwa (Chief Osaze), Charles Okocha (Jeff), Georgina Onuoha (Evelyn), Ify Arinze (Jessica), Emma Odili (Lex). Story/Executive Producer, Silas Obasi; Screenplay, Emem Isong; Director of Photography, Emmanuel Olabode; Editor, Akande Musbau; Producer, Cajetan Ugwuegbu; Director, Obi Callys Obinali (dgn). (2017) Keeping My Man is a dependent clause, like a half-baked rhythm and blues, note that strikes a memory cord in your heart. The title itself is not discordant, but if it

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African movie star woman with curly hair, two people in the background crying and cheering.

Majid Rides Okada For A Living!

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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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