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The African America Film Critics Association Awards rolled out the red carpet... Read More
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Movie Reviews
Tyler Perry’s latest feature film on Neftlix, “A Fall from Grace”, follows one of his obsessions—the suffering black woman. His other obsession is black suffering at large, for which he has devised a perfect formula, which has helped him churn... Read More
One of the things that filmmaker Imoh Umoren did successfully was promote his movie, The Herbert Macaulay Affair. He did not do it because it was his first movie but because of the story’s significance. The movie is a biopic... Read More
In the wake of Kunle Afolayan’s world press conference to announce the take off of his latest movie project, Citation, which features an eclectic and international cast thelagosreview brings you a throwback review of his hit movie The CEO which... Read More
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Music Reviews
I Love Girls with Trobul. Declarative and acknowledging, perhaps even romcom cheeky—this is the title of the first EP collaboration between blue-haired American-bred and Lagos-born crooner WurlD and Sarz, Benin-born music producer with a remarkable shelf-life and bragging rights. The... Read More
What is most striking about Show Dem Camp’s new record, The Palmwine Express, is that it feels markedly different from the two previously released similarly themed projects. As an aside, palmwine music might be the intellectual equivalent of lamba music.... Read More
On 25th June, 2017, the cash-backed TV game show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, was called off Nigerian TV screens abruptly. The disappearance of the show signalled the end of an uninterrupted 13 years weekly disbursement of money to... Read More
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Book Reviews
Apotheosis of Ironsi Ironsi – The Army, Power And Politics by Chuks Iloegbunam; Eminent Biographies (EB), Awka, Nigeria; 2019; 298pp There is an almost general acknowledgment that The Class of 1966, that is, the northern revenge coup plotters that killed... Read More
Welcome to Leye Adenle’s Lagos where, a few pages into the plot, the prologue in fact, a private jet, with the owner on board, crashes into a house. Simultaneously, a man is about to be lynched by touts and our... Read More
(Narrative Landscape Press Limited, 2017, pp.111) I am not sure whether I offered to review this book, The Pressure Cooker or whether I was bullied by the author, Nkiru Olumide-Ojo into accepting to be the reviewer because this is a... Read More
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