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Tyler Perry has revealed he would be saying goodbye to his popular character, Madea in his next Madea film that is expected to be released in 2019. “This is it,” he told SiriusXM radio host Bevy Smith on her show Bevelations “It’s time for me to kill that old b***h. I’m tired!…We’re gonna say goodbye […]
Pacific Rim Uprising is a 2018 American science fiction film directed by Steven S. DeKnight (in his feature-film directorial debut) and written by DeKnight, Emily Carmichael, Kira Snyder, and T.S. Nowlin. It is the sequel to the 2013 film Pacific Rim, with Guillermo Del Toro, director of the original, serving as a producer. The […]
Since its emergence at the turn of the twenty-first century, the Nigerian movie industry “Nollywood” has had a profound influence on African culture. The Nigerian accents, style of dress, and behaviours of the people, all of which are Nigerian cultural practices are now being transmitted as images around the globe. In Nigeria, the role […]
Books and movies from “Twilight” to “50 Shades of Grey” teach society to buy into the idea that dependent and harmful relationships are the epitome of love. Because of these complicated versions of romance, it can be challenging for people to recognize emotional abuse. However, anything that causes the victim to feel degraded, guilty, invalidated […]
The Reset themed 7th edition of the Lights Camera Africa!!! film festival came to an end on October 1 with the screening of the closing film, the migrant documentary, An Opera of the World, directed by Malian academic/filmmaker, Manthia Diawara. For three days film lovers, critics, artistes and supporters gathered at the Federal Palace Hotel […]
Nollywood is enjoying a resurgence, optimists like to preach. Nollywood 2.0, or 3.0 or 4.0, depending on what generation it is making the claims. New Nollywood is the term most proponents seem to agree upon and just like the badly worn cliché that it is, this term has come to stay. New Nollywood means different […]
At the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF), held this year from the 13th to 23rd of July, Nollywood was conspicuously absent. It wasn’t an exception though. This is usually the rule. As plays out every year, when the entire continent assembles in Durban to screen, market films and make deals at Africa’s biggest and most […]
The success of the movie, Birdman, means Mexicans have won best director for two years running. In 2014, Alfonso Cuaron won for Gravity, his groundbreaking sci-film film that featured Sandra Bullock floating around a junkyard of orbiting satellites and made a whopping $716 million at the box office. Birdman also won for best original screenplay […]