Nollywood Guilds pledge support for smoke-free films campaign

Leaders and representatives of various guilds and associations in the Nigerian film industry have pledged their support for the campaign against smoking and consumption of harmful substances in Nollywood films. (NAN) reports that the actors committed a National Stakeholders Engagement on Smoke-Free Nollywood held in Enugu on Tuesday. The National Film and Video Censors Board … Read more

The Oscars: Who’ll Win, Who Should Win, and Who’s Overdue

Will win: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers”Should win: Danielle Brooks, “The Color Purple”Should’ve been nominated: Hong Chau, “Showing Up” BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Sterling K. Brown, “American Fiction”Robert De Niro, “Killers of the Flower Moon”Robert Downey, Jr., “Oppenheimer”Ryan Gosling, “Barbie”Mark Ruffalo, “Poor Things” Everything is coming together beautifully for Robert Downey, Jr., a three-time Oscar nominee … Read more

Now That the Oscar Nominations Are in, Here’s What Deserves to Win

If the Oscars are meant to display the film industry’s ideal image of itself, the choice of “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Barbie” among the year’s best movies is evidence that the spirit of artistic audacity has survived the age of superheroic domination. Those two films are high on my list of favorites, too, … Read more