Not to be confused with Afrobeat (the musical genre pioneered by the inimitable Fela), Afrobeats (distinguished with emphasis on the ‘S’) is a nomenclature of convenience conjured to pigeonhole a distinctive 5-beat pattern musical genre that has taken the world, quite literally, by storm. Being the bride, it seems, everyone…

Movie Review: Glamour Girls In terms of audience anticipation, the much awaited Glamour Girls remake had a lot going for it in the nostalgia department. After all, its 1994 original is unarguably a classic from the early days of Nollywood. So, how does the Netflix-streaming remake stack up compared to…

Movie Review-Jurassic World: Dominion In the world of the Jurassic movie franchise, there are two kinds of white people; entitled white people doing dumb shit and entitled white people doing dumber shit trying to fix the dumb shit done by the first set of white people. Then, there's this other…

Over a decade in development, and its production and release stalled by the death of the original director, Tony Scott, and COVID 19, the long-awaited sequel to 1986’s box office hit movie and pop culture cult classic, Top Gun, finally opened two years behind its original release date. Rarely does…

Movie Review: Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Take a storyline premise that is decidedly Nolan-esque in the sheer complexity of its multiverse yada yada. Construct a grand cinematic architecture with stunning mindbending visuals that could only have been dreamt of if Salvador Dali and Tim Burton had spent…

Limited Series Review: Blood Sisters Choose your poison: Dysfunctional family, familial secrets, domestic violence, sibling rivalry, spousal corporate power-grab connivance, drug addiction, multiple murders, organ harvesting, sisterhood/ride-and-die friendship... everything and the kitchen sink at this point, really. Mix a generous cocktail of old Nollywood legends and new Nollywood Wizkids. Clothe…

Movie Review: Chief Daddy 2 - Going for Broke. This utterly pointless sequel is so bad, it'd be fair to say that knowing it was going to be released on January 1, 2022, Betty White thought it wise to check out on December 31, 2021. The movie's hard on for Dubai was so nauseating and pointless that for the sheer ridiculousness of the Dubai scenes and storyline, Nigeria and the UAE should resume diplomatic hostilities.

In its first iteration, Kemi Adetiba’s King of Boys was notably long with its running time almost clocking 3 hours. …

It had to happen eventually. Even if in the franchise’s reality-defying world cars never seem to refuel, in real life; utterly ridiculous movie franchises which fail to call it quits when the ovation is loudest can only run so much on the fumes of past successes before they descend into…