Category: Reviews
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Movie Review: Christmas in Lagos (2024)
Christmas in Lagos delivers a delightful festive romp set against the dazzling backdrop of Nigeria’s most populous city during its famous “Detty December” season. Directed by Jadesola Osiberu, known for her modern Nollywood hits such as Isoken (2017) and Sugar Rush (2019), this film is a compelling mix of romance, comedy, and vibrant visuals—perfect for…
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Movie Review: When They See Us (Netflix)- The Central Park Five
One night in April 1989, a young white woman who had been jogging was bludgeoned, raped and left for dead in Central Park, New York, United States. The evidence suggested that the crime had been committed by one man, but Linda Fairstein, head of the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s office ignored…
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Touring the National Museum of Computing, Bletchley, England
Computers and information technology have become an integral part of our lives in the digital age. Just about everything we do, have or enjoy has been defined and made possible by computers, but the history of these powerful resources, their influence on politics, and the rest of the world hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves.
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Movie Review: Lionheart (Netflix)
Genevieve Nnaji is Adaeze Obiagu, Director Operations and Logistics at Lionheart Transport Services, a family-owned business suddenly facing bankruptcy. With the Chairman’s absence, she is forced to team up with her Uncle to save the business or lose it all to her father’s rival.
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Movie Review: Bird Box (Netflix)
Sandra Bullock is Malorie, a portrait artist and a reluctant single mother-to-be living alone in her cluttered studio. There’s growing news on TV about random suicides, but it’s far away, in another country on another continent. Until it isn’t…
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Beauty Product Review: Clarins Double Serum
This post is a review of the much-talked Clarins Double Serum Complete Age Control Concentrate on dark skin tones.
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Movie Review: Venom
Reporter Eddie Brock stalks his fiancé’s email and attempts to expose Carlton Drake, a wealthy and influential scientist suspected of unethical practices. While snooping around Drake’s lab on a tip-off, Venom, a slithery alien life-form enters Eddie’s body, talking in his head and making him unrealistically strong. They both struggle for power over Eddie’s body…
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Movie Review: Traffick
John (Omar Epps) plans to propose to Brea (Paula Patton) his journalist girlfriend, and so the couple sets out on a romantic weekend getaway in a lovely mansion isolated in the mountains. But that’s where things start to get crazy. But I’m saying too much already. If you haven’t seen Traffick, watch the trailer below…
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Book Review: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Meet Eleanor Oliphant, an unconsciously witty, socially awkward, and reclusive 30-year-old, with a dark past. Then a crush and a unlikely incident with a colleague changes everything.
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Movie Review: Tyler Perry’s Acrimony
hen she said “I gave him everything, and I was everything he needed me to be” I knew I had to see this movie. This is another one with our favourite girl Taraji P Hanson, and she had me feeling all kinds of ways in this movie, and I’m not even sure how to articulate…
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Movie Review: Avengers: Infinity War
It’s here! The moment we’ve been waiting for. Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk and the rest of the Avengers team up to fight Thanos; their most powerful adversary yet! His mission: to collect all six Infinity Stones and rebalance the universe. And as usual, our fate rests with the Avengers. You have to be living under…
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Movie Review: A Quiet Place
The suspense and panic in this movie is so contagious and will have you mindful and unable to speak. Don’t bring popcorn to the cinema for this one guys. Don’t be the one to get everyone killed.
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Movie Review: 50 Shades Freed…Indeed
Movies as a form of entertainment are often designed to evoke emotion; make you think, laugh, have a good cry or even induce an anxiety attack. Some do this so well, you watch and you just can’t wait to tell everyone about it. However, there are those you struggle through and finally make sense of…
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Movie Review: Black Panther
With all the banter and hype surrounding this movie in the last year, not talking about it feels like a crime even though so much has already been said. If you read my earlier post on the must-see movies of 2018, you’ll know I was looking forward to this movie for a number of reasons.…
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Food Review: Blu Cabana Restaurant, Abuja
It’s been a while since I took you some place new to eat, so after reading all the hype review on Trip Advisor, I decided we’d check out Blu Cabana Restaurant!
