Nollywood is riding a serious high right now, and January 2026 has turned cinemas across Nigeria into buzzing hotspots of ...

The greeting "namaste" associated with yoga and the Pidgin word for trouble, "wahala", widely used across the world thanks to ...

Nollywood actress and filmmaker, Funke Akindele, has recorded a strong box office outing with her latest film, Behind The Scenes, which has crossed ₦200 million in its opening weekend. The film, whose ...

Netflix is just full of surprises, even when coming out of a long holiday weekend. Typically, the top films on Netflix’s movie charts are action-oriented in some way. But one of the streamer’s latest ...

2025 was a year that posed a lot of questions for movie lovers: Did the success of Sinners prove that there was still a mass audience hungry for original (read: non-IP) stories on a blockbuster level?

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Solomon Waliaula received funding from the International European Research Council as a contributor to the book Contemporary African Screen Worlds: Decolonizing Film and Screen Studies (2019-2025).

The English-language version will feature the voice of Michelle Yeoh and be released in the United States in August. By Derrick Bryson Taylor An English-language version of the Chinese movie “Ne Zha 2 ...

The Nollywood actor explained that his doctor friend was shocked he survived after seeing his skull. According to the actor who is more prominent in the Yoruba side of Nollywood, the accident, which ...

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 ...

Based in Scotland, Finn has been writing about Japanese pop culture for nine years now. He is also a gamer, hiker, and proud vegan. His passion is bringing news straight from Japan to you, in English, ...