From grand Lagos weddings to quiet village desires, Nigerian filmmakers have given us romance in every angle possible. Some stories are tender and poetic. Others are dramatic and chaotic. In the ...

Nollywood actress Ajara Lasisi, popularly known as Aunty Ajara, is dead. Her death was announced on Thursday by Nollywood director, Tobi Oladele Teemony, also known as Tee Mony, in a statement shared ...

This story is featured in the March/April 2025 issue of ESSENCE. In 2017, sisters Tochi and Ebele ­Anueyiagu shared a single image on their new Instagram account: a still of Nigerian film and beauty ...

Welcome to another edition of Trust Me, I Watch Everything, a weekly guide to all the new movies released on Friday. I'm Brett Arnold, film critic and host of Roger & Me, a weekly Siskel & Ebert-style ...

'Frankenstein,' 'Carrie,' 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' 'Independence Day,' and more sci-fi, fantasy, and horror movies with big anniversaries coming up. Reading time 6 minutes We’re over a quarter of a ...

Iconic Nollywood movies, Wedding Party, '76, Wives on Strike, and more are turning 10 in 2026. Here’s why they are still worth watching today. It was also the year Netflix officially became available ...

There’s a new top thriller on Netflix, and it’s a film that only a relative few had seen before this week. The Girl Who Got Away was released on VOD in 2021 to a muted response, and it had never ...

We asked you to vote on the best films of the year. The results ranged from big box office hits to small art-house indies. We asked you to vote on the best films of the year. The results ranged from ...

Get ready to spend your holiday with the sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea, because the new SpongeBob movie, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, is opening in movie theaters this ...

Our film critics rank their 10 favorites of the year. By Manohla Dargis and Alissa Wilkinson Manohla Dargis It was another great year for the movies and another horrible, hair-on-fire year for the ...

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