Marvin Gable (Ke Huy Quan) is a lovable, happy-go-lucky realtor who loves his job. Like, loves his job. He finds joy in putting people in homes and is more than content with his life. Content, that is, until Rose (Ariana DeBose) enters back into his life. Rose, an...
Rozim 7134 - but you can call her Roz (Lupita Nyong’o), is a robot created to make life easier for humans by completing tasks who finds herself on an island where the animals are mostly trying to kill each other, and, importantly, there are no humans. Roz struggles to...
No lie, I decided to go see Love in the Big City because I ‘just wanted to see a good love story’. I had a certain expectation going into the theatre, so I was definitely surprised a few minutes in. When Jae-hee (Kim Go-eun) and Heung-soo (Steve Sanghyun Noh) meet in...
After releasing House of Bondage - a photography book that displayed what life was like in Apartheid South Africa - in 1967, photographer, Ernest Cole was exiled to the United States. There, he found that his experiences as a black man were not limited to his country,...
Tayo (Jable Ogranya) and Themba (Jesse Suntele) create an app that makes it easier for Lagosians to book rides on motorcycles (or okadas, as we call them), consequently making it easier for okada riders to earn a living, something Abiola (Adebowale Adedayo) is...
Most of us have been there. Forming an interest, even a passion, for something just to begin it and find that, as it is, it does not have the same fondness for you that you do for it. I’ve said before, that as a kid, I wanted to have hair like Barbie’s. That came with...
From the Agbajowo Collective, The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos is an insightful look at the lives of people forcefully evicted from their homes in the 'slums' of Lagos. Main character, Jawu (played by Temi Ami-Williams), is trying to get by living in the...
In The End, the earth is finally (mostly) unliveable, and our main characters- a wealthy family of three and a handful of people who work for them- have continued their lives in a bunker in a salt mine. The adult son of this family (George MacKay) has spent his whole...
After being allowed to change schools, Boong (played by Gugun Kipgen) decides to bring back his estranged father as a gift for his mother. Along with his best friend, Raju (played by Angom Sanamatum), Boong devises a plan to retrieve his father from the city of Moreh,...