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
A few days ago, Nollywood actor and filmmaker Femi Adebayo took to social media to announce the second part of Ageshinkole: King of Thieves, a Yoruba epic production, which will be out at an unspecified date this Yuletide season. In the viral video, Adebayo revealed that the sequel will be distributed through community cinemas in […]
7 months ago
The Surreal 16 Collective-curated film festival, S16 Film Festival is in its fifth edition and deciding which films to watch, as a festival attendee, is top priority. The festival which has programmed and screened some of the rare-to-find Nigerian and African films is scheduled to hold from 1st to 5th December, 2025. Organized by Abba […]
7 months ago
In 2020, Wizkid released Essence featuring Tems, the fourth single off his Made in Lagos album. One year later, the remix featuring Tems and Justin Bieber followed. That song is sitting as Wizkid’s most-streamed record, first song with a lead Nigerian act to crack the hallowed Billboard Hot 100 and has gathered lots of accolades […]
7 months ago
Ovisa, a satirical drama written by Nwaru Favour Ikechukwu and directed by Korede Mann (Best Director nominee for The FilmJoint Awards 2026) is one of the seven films chosen for The Accelerate Filmmaker Project (AFP) 2024, the others being Loveth Ogbene’s The Boy from the Window, Samuel Ajirebi’s Egbeji, Ashimedua Odiachi’s Mofe, Rotipin Tobiloba’s Purgatory, […]
7 months ago
Yoruba metaphysics categorizes human existence into at least three cyclic stages: the worlds of the unborn, the living and the ancestors or dead. Soyinka, in his book Myth, Literature and the African World, introduces an additional, less explored fourth realm, which he describes as “the dark continuum of transition” and a home for “the ultimate […]
7 months ago
With its premise of two youngsters and neighbours finding ways to love each other and share small, beautiful moments despite their individual sufferings, The Boy From The Window shows considerable merit. The story rouses emotions with its portrayal of teenage innocence, desire, suffering and a quiet sense of hope that offers solace in place of […]
7 months ago
The theatre-esque hall at Muson Centre, Onikan hosted Nollywood veterans, professionals and cultural practitioners from 18th to 19th November, 2025, for a two-day conference. Themed From Volume to Value: The Future of the Nigerian Motion Picture Industry in the Digital Age, the conference had industry leaders, creatives, policymakers, guild and professional bodies engaged in warm […]
7 months ago
Storytelling in modern African cinema often requires digging deep into sensitive human conditions and lending voices to underrepresented groups. Doing so, the cinema becomes more of an instrument for conscientization and social campaign than entertainment. A few notable examples of this are Tunde Kelani’s Dazzling Mirage (Nigeria) which draws attention to sickle-cell anaemia; Reabetswe Rangaka’s […]
7 months ago
