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.
2 months ago
While Nollywood’s artistic ambitions have supposedly heightened, they often don’t translate onscreen.
1 month 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.
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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.
6 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 […]
1 year ago
The second largest film industry in the world after Hollywood, Nigeria’s vibrant film industry has experienced a steady rise between the 1990s and the 2000s, capturing global audiences and streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon. What started as a grassroots movement with low-budget productions has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry with a financial value of […]
1 year ago
Every week, The Culture Custodian grants you an all-access backstage pass into the lives of Nollywood rock stars. You get to learn about their fascinating backgrounds, the behind-the-scenes stories, and more. This episode features film editor and post-production supervisor, Biyi Toluwalase. Few minutes into a conversation with Biyi Toluwalase, a casual assessment of his personality […]
1 year ago
Highly anticipated historical fiction FESTAC ‘77 has been selected by the Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC) to make an exclusive preview at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in France, offering audiences a first look at the film that revisits Africa’s largest cultural festival. Produced by Adonis Production and distributed by Filmone Entertainment, the African export film […]
1 year ago
It started with a celebration. On April 18, 2025, beloved Nigerian actress Bimbo Ademoye premiered her latest film, Broken Hallelujah, on YouTube, greeted with applause, praise, and, within days, pirated copies. The film popped up on Ghanaian TV stations almost as quickly as it went live online. Furious, Ademoye took to social media, calling it […]
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Landline is Dele Doherty’s debut feature film. But, for the filmmaker, it is the culmination of years spent watching films, studying auteur filmmakers, experimenting with friends, watching filmmaking-related reels on Instagram, and searching videos on YouTube, that has culminated in the making of Landline starring Zainab Balogun, Gabriel Afolayan, and Bucci Franklin. Courtesy of his […]
1 year ago
Nemsia Studios has officially released the gripping trailer for its upcoming crime thriller The Fire and The Moth, set to premiere on May 16, 2025, exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. Directed by Taiwo Egunjobi and produced by Emiola Fagbenle, the film stars Tayo Faniran, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Ini Dima-Okojie, Olarotimi Fakunle, and William Benson in a […]
1 year ago
It is late in the evening when the story begins. We meet a young lady driving in a car, dressed in a puffed-up outfit, her face is adorned while returning from a party. Her car slows down when she sees something of interest on the road. She drops to confirm the corpse of Uncle Fred, […]
1 year ago
My first encounter with Ema Edosio-Deelen was in her directional debut, Kasala. It’s difficult recalling the year I saw the film, but what I can still recall, however, was feeling seen and represented in the film, as a young adult from Ajegunle. Her character and world building carries a resonance with my immediate environment. Watching […]
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