Nollywood

#Throwback Movie Review: “Sylvia” Is A Nuanced Take On Mental Health And The Paranormal

By Jerry Chiemeke While it’s fairly acknowledged in literature and film, the concept of having…

How The Baba Ijesha Case Accurately Illustrates The Attitude Of Nigerians To Rape Allegations

By Elsie Godwin A few days ago, a colleague was riding with me when I…

#Throwback Movie Review: Akin Omotoso’s “The Ghost And The House Of Truth” Is An Emotive Thriller

By Jerry Chiemeke   The closing weeks of any given year are usually associated with…

Has Filmmaking In Nollywood Gone To The Dogs?

By Michael Kolawole   The pendulum of Nollywood is swinging back to the early ’90s…

Movie Review: Niyi Akinmolayan’s “Prophetess” Is Ambitious

By Jerry Chiemeke   In a country like Nigeria that is bedeviled by poverty, unemployment,…

Nollywood And The Need To Pay More Attention To Short Films

By Jerry Chiemeke Less is more. Yes, we hear that very often, but it has…

Nollywood Needs Its Low-Budget Movies. Here Is Why.

By Jerry Chiemeke Before DVDs and blu-ray, there were video CDs, and before those, there…

Nollywood Scripts Are Really Problematic – But Aren’t They True To Life?

By Margaret Agwu   If you watch as many Nollywood movies as I do, it’s…

Is Nollywood Falling Short In Accurately Portraying Igbo Culture?

By Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera   It could be argued that one of the grand efforts…