1. When her daughter’s wedding dress tore and she was like ‘mo gbe!’
Wedding dress tearing on wedding day, chisooos!
2. When she didn’t know the difference between Efik and Igbo culture, like every Yoruba mother.
Yoruba mother of life!
3. When she couldn’t contain her excitement for her daughter.
Kuku kill all of us.
4. What of when she became paranoid and thought they had kidnapped her daughter?
The action was too much, please.
5. When she and Ali Baba danced and they were the lives of the party.
As it should be.
6. What of when the bride’s family danced in and it was the greatest dance scene ever made?
Hands down everyone’s favourite scene.
7. Also, when she was super extra while she was praying against her enemies.
And we all knew she was subbing the groom’s mother o!
8. And when she started being all mushy with her husband right in the middle of a robbery, like the bosses they are.
Mama the mama!
1. The Happyness Limited
Watch award-winning Tope Tedela who plays a xx man, who tries to get his life back after losing everything in a fire.
2. Kung-fu Master Jugunnu
This hilarious movie trailer shows just how underrated Yoruba Nollywood is.
3. The Three Wise Men
Watch Zack Orji and RMD act like the typical Nigerian men that famz the baby boy life at their old age in this hilarious trailer.
4. The Guest
If you love Rita Dominic, you’ll fall in love with this upcoming thriller.
5. Dognapped
What happens when an upcoming Nigerian comedian finds a talking dog? The hilarity in this trailer is out of this world, and yes, it features Odunlade Adekola.
6. Room 315
This upcoming movie is Nigeria’s1st ever crowd-sourced movie project and is centered around a psychologist and how his patient’s lives are webbed around his.
7. When Love Happens Again
A sequel to the 2014 rom-com, When Love Happens. We can only hope this movie meets expectations sha.
Seriously, Nigerian comedian and film-maker, AY Makun, needs to show us the secret behind his record-breaking feat.
Because, not long after his first movie, ’30 Days In Atlanta’, bagged a Guinness World Record for being Nigeria’s highest grossing movie, his 2nd movie, A Trip To Atlanta has reportedly smashed the record with a box office hit of 168 million Naira
The film features the adventures of Akpos (played by AY Makun) and his fiance, Bola (Funke Akindele) during a family visitation trip overseas.
Although it’s trailer came with seriously low expectations, this new record only proves Nigerians enjoy a ‘special’ type o comedy. You can watch the movie trailer below:
The 2016 edition of the Toronto Film Festival is gradually coming to an end but not without Nigerians being incredibly proud of our very own Nollywood.
For one, the Nigerian industry made its way to the City to City programme of the festival. Also, some Nigerian celebrities dished out an unbelievable dose of slayage that made us totally love-struck.
1. When Zainab Balogun, gave us just the right amount of slay.
2. Adesua Etomi’s fierce look in her stunning yellow dress.
3. Banky W just keeps it dapper all the time!
4. Mummy Genevieve being her usual fashionably classy self.
5. That time Somkele Idhlama, served legs in this pretty black dress.
6. When RMD showed us he is the definition of fine wine.
7. Beverly Naya totally killed it with her red dress.
8. That time Zainab Balogun proved she was born to slay.
9. When Chidi Mokeme showed he is still a hottie.
10. Somkele Idhlama looked even better in this two piece set.
For the first time in the history of the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), 8 Nollywood movies were showcased in the festival’s City to City programme.
This impressive feat not only proved that Nollywood is definitely on the way to greatness, also, international actors of African descent including Lupita N’yongo and David Oyelowo showed their support.
Speaking to an audience at the City to City: Lagos opening, an excited David Oyelowo was too happy to be in the midst of people who could properly pronounce his name without adding extra ‘phone’.
His speech was not only inspiring but the funniest we’ve seen in a while as he perfectly mimicked the typical Nigerian parent’s reaction to their child going into acting.
We hope to see a Nollywood on the Academy Award playing field soon, but in the meantime, you can watch David Oyelowo’s speech below:
We know Nollywood movie titles can be a bit extra sometimes. But can you guess which of these ones are real? Take this quiz to find out.
1. After School Hours
Honestly, this movie made people think twice before eating puff puff.
2. Witches
Remember ‘Ekuku le ku’ and the horrific nails on the witches?
3. Koto Aiye
This Yoruba movie was the stuff nightmares were made off.
4. Living In Bondage
This movie made many of us scared of going to the toilet at night.
5. Nneka The Pretty Serpent
In all honesty, there was nothing pretty about this movie.
6. Diamond Ring
Instead of just saying “It’s not good to steal”, they made this movie about an angry ghost that lost a diamond ring.
7. Last Burial
This was the movie that launched Clem Ohameze’s acting career as the perpetual ritualist.
8. Agbara Nla
When Mount Zion started making their good Vs evil films that couldn’t be more frightening.
9. Karishika
Karishika Karishika, queen of darkness, Lucifer Lucifer, King of demons.
10. Blood Money
The name says it all.
11. Full Moon
We can never forgive Nollywood for this movie sha.
12. End Of The Wicked
Alex Usifo basically drank blood from beginning and end of this movie!
After three years of production, a Nigerian animated movie, The Secret Princess, produced by Segun Williams, is set to be released in cinemas this June.
The Secret Princess is about how a king’s efforts towards having a male heir leads to the switching of two new-born babies.
It explores a missing princess’s experience while living in the jungle with her mother and speaking to animals.
Playing the lead character in this movie is DJ Cuppy, with supporting roles by both local and international actors, including Desmond Elliot.
The movie, adapted from a book of the same title addresses issues such as discrimination against male and female children.
Watch the movie trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGL5N3u9Ka4
Not every time bash Nollywood, sometimes give them props.
Because for every not-so-great movie and confusing translation…
People like Tunde Kelani, Stephanie Linus, Emem Isong and Kunle Afolayan come through with awesome movies that make us fall in love with Nollywood all over again.
After blessing us with The Figurine and the award winning October 1, Kunle Afolayan has made a new movie, titled The CEO, and it first premiered on a flight from Lagos to Paris.
One of the actors, Haitian Jimmy Jean Louise, (aka the hot guy from Phat Girls) who was in Nigeria for the official premiere of the movie couldn’t stop gushing about Nollywood and Nigeria.
According to him, Nigeria is one of Africa’s leading countries with the most potential and power. He even added that Nollywood has a better representation of African cinema. Nice!
The CEO movie should be a mind-blowing movie, anyway, we expect nothing short of perfection from Kunle Afolayan.
The movie which also features Angelique Kidjo, is about a group of top executives of a multi-national company who begin to die mysteriously during a short business trip. Watch the movie trailer here.
Whenever you see a movie poster with this man on it, just know he will use the line “the elders say”. The Nigerian embodiment of Solomon, we think he should have a book out already. Take a look at these posts by people who want to be him.
