What Exactly Is All This Sex Doing in Blood Sisters?
Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
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Features, reviews, and essays on film and TV shows from across the African continent
Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
3 weeks ago
My Father’s Shadow dual-citizenship tension isn’t an isolated conversation in African cinema. From the early 2000’s to date, there have been a select number of African titles with similar tension.
2 months ago
Intentional storytelling are the purposeful creative choices that involve a smooth blend of narrative, aesthetic style and themes in a manner that enhances meaning and overall appeal.
5 months ago
Afolabi Olalekan’s Freedom Way written and produced by Blessing Uzzi, takes a lengthy and laborious 90 minutes to drive home a single point: our lives, as humans and Nigerians, especially, are connected. Uzzi’s script assembles a varied cast to make this point: the co-founders of Easy Go Ride, Themba (Jesse Suntele), Tayo (Ogaranya), and Edi […]
11 months ago
The Yoruba people have a saying: “Sátídé ti ọ dà, àti Jímọ́h láti mọ́.” Although there are different iterations of this saying, what they loosely translate to is that tomorrow’s greatness is foreshadowed in the details of today. This often-recycled axiom captures my thoughts after watching the trailer for Akay Mason’s Red Circle which has […]
1 year ago
Once again, a date is set. The air is thick with anticipation as Nollywood filmmaker Kunle Afolayan announces the return of Aníkúlápó: Rise of the Spectre, a Netflix Yoruba epic fantasy series, on January 30th, 2026. The franchise, which began with a 2022 pilot titled Aníkúlápó, established the presence of Saro, a young man on […]
6 months ago
2025 has been a year filled with cinematic gems in Nollywood. Films arrived as responses to history and violence, while experimenting with memory and form. Across cinemas, festivals, and streaming platforms, Nigerian filmmakers pushed genre and scale, while still circling the same enduring question: how can authentic stories be told in Nigeria? It was a […]
6 months ago
In a cinematic landscape frequently defined by auditory excess, melodrama and spectacle, director and cinematographer Moses Mojeokwu offers a sophisticated counter-narrative: the deafening impact of silence. If the current Nollywood landscape is characterized by the grandiose epics, colorful costumes and dialogue that explains rather than suggests, Moses Mojeokwu is focusing his lens deeper, passionately committed […]
6 months ago
How To Build A Library, a Kenyan documentary produced and directed by Maia Lekow and Christopher King, chronicles the transformation of Nairobi’s historic McMillan Memorial Library from its status as a colonial legacy into an all-inclusive public space with provisions that cater to general interests. The feature-length documentary follows the journey of author Shiro Koinange […]
6 months ago
In a Culture Custodian essay titled A Capsuled History of Indie Filmmaking in Nigeria and Alternative Screening Spaces, an attempt was made to track how, over the past two decades, Nigerian independent filmmakers and critics have sought alternative means, through guerilla-inclined activities and movements, to show alternative, avant-garde and art-conscious Nigerian and non-Nigerian titles. These […]
6 months ago
On December 5, 2025, Netflix announced it had agreed to acquire Warner Bros., including HBO, in a transaction valued at approximately $82.7 billion in enterprise value. The deal brings together Netflix’s global streaming dominance with Warner Bros.’ century-long legacy of storytelling, including franchises like Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, The Wizard of Oz, and the […]
6 months ago
Within the first few minutes of a film, you can often tell whether it holds promise and is worth your time. Certain cues reveal its potential early on, and The Covenant is one such Nollywood production. It follows Dagogo (Gideon Okeke) an ex-soldier that embarks on a mission to find his brother Celestine (Zubby Michael), […]
6 months ago
Cinema lovers across the world were stunned after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences entered into a multi-year partnership with YouTube, granting the streaming platform exclusive broadcast access to the Oscars from 2029 to 2033. ABC, the US-based television network where the industry’s vibrant event has aired for decades, will lose its broadcast […]
7 months ago
