‘Banana Island Ghost’ Review: Extensively Hilarious—Even When the Name Sounds Puerile
If you’ve said you wouldn’t watch an African movie that vividly tells you from the title that it revolves around a ghost, that’s a prudent...
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ISOKEN Review: Jade Osiberu’s Attempt at Challenging Perennial Social Compulsions On the Back of Romance and Sometimes Vapid Comedy
Sandwiched between a relationship that seems conventionally desirable and perfect with more enviable prospects—and another that departs from societal expectations and acceptances filled with looming...
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‘Mechanic: Resurrection’ Review: Jason Statham Once Again is Too BadAss to Be Killed
British actor-Jason Statham is just not a great talent, even though many of the movies he has starred in fall short of his excellence, his...
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‘Suicide Squad’ Review: A Group of Meta-Humans Fighting for the Interest of the State in A Plot-less Heavily Computerised Chaotic Film—Much More Like A Recorded Grenade-Themed Computer Game
Written and directed by David Ayer, “Suicide Squad” is plotless and chaotic—-so bad that I had to keep stuffing Doritos into my mouth just to...
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'Jason Bourne' Review: A Snowden Style Whistle Blowing Attempt Sends Assassins Once Again After Rogue-Bourne
After failing to appear in the 2012 Bourne spinoff-The Bourne Legacy, Matt Damon has returned to the Bourne franchise to keep the Bourne cinematic legacy...
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‘Cocoa Brown’ Review: A Poor Opening With Overt Execrable Acting and Unpardonable Production Flaws
On the back of the initial success of her first TV series-Afia Schwarzenegger which somewhat lost its momentum and audience to the exit of its...
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'The Legend of Tarzan' Review: A Remake That’s Far From the Tarzan We Fell in Love With
The popular English adage; “if it’s not broke don’t fix it” perfectly captures the feeling I walked out of the cinema with after about 2...
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'The Boss' Review: Melissa McCarthy’s Fall from the Top and An Aggressive Comeback
Co-written by Melissa McCarthy and her husband-Ben Falcone who also directed this corporate themed fused with family comedy, The Boss, has unexpected hilarious scenes and...
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Cannes Film Review: ‘The Wailing’—Brutishly Intense And Yet Deeply Emotional
If you’ve ever considered supernatural stories a little lame and passé in contemporary cinema direction, then perhaps you are yet to see South Korean director-Na...
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Cannes Film Review: ‘Aquarius’—When Home and Memories Are Strongly Intertwined | A Brilliant Performance By Sonia Braga
Actress- Sonia Braga has aged gracefully and playing a woman around her real age in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s latest film-‘Aquarius’ must have demanded a little...