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African Indigenous Language Film Festival receives NFC’s endorsement
*Asuelime unveiled as Festival Director
THE Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC) has formally endorsed the forthcoming 'African Indigenous Language Film Festival (Ailff)', a pan-African!-->!-->!-->…
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Tunde Kelani’s Ayinla wins Isaac Oluwole Delano Prize for Yoruba Studies
By Eva Irewole
'...what is most beautiful about the movie is how it is not only a representation of Ayinla’s life but also the way it reflects the lives of several other characters,!-->!-->!-->…
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iREP 2023: Frontline Docu film festival stages ‘moderated edition’, with focus on…
*Date: Thurs March 16-Sunday, March 19
DUE to the inclement election-induced political climate in the country, organisers of the iREPRESENT Documentary Film Festival, have resolved!-->!-->!-->…
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African Queens: Njinga review – Jada Pinkett Smith’s docudrama is like a mediocre Channel 5 show
This tale of a 17th-century African female ruler features impressive academics, but they’re drowned out by poor-quality dramatic sequences. It lacks context, analysis or personality
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Kunle Afolayan on Aníkúlápó: ‘I said this movie would be bigger than ‘Game of Thrones’
Wale Oloworekende
The Nigerian director explains how his film has become a huge Netflix hit and why he doesn’t care it’s been overlooked for an Oscar
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Anikulapo: An oscillation between cultural memory and idioculture
By Joseph Omoniyi
Photo: The insatiable Saro in Anikulapo
Synopsis/Summary
GOING into Anikulapo, your expectation bar is supercharged and placed extremely high, partly because!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Once upon a time in Nollywood
By Lena Basse
Photo: LENA BASSE/HFPA
THE Nigerian film industry, nicknamed “Nollywood,” is the second largest film industry in the world, just behind India in terms of output.!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Review: A Spidey sense overdose in ‘No Way Home’
By JAKE COYLE
SPIDER-MAN movies have come in such flurries over the last two decades that you could almost tell time by them. Who needs the long centuries of the Triassic, Jurassic!-->!-->!-->…
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Crime and politics in sequel to ‘King of Boys’
By Ayọ̀délé Ìbíyẹmí
KING of Boys: Return of the King, the sequel to Kemi Adetiba’s 2018 blockbuster, King of Boys, arrived as a 7-part series on Netflix, the streaming platform, on!-->!-->!-->…
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Meet Hilda Dokubo… the evergreen screen darling
(Actor of the Week)
HILDA Dokubo may not be a face on every movie poster or DVD jacket, now; some may even argue that she has taking a back seat in terms of appearance!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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