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October 1 (2014)
A must watch for younger Nigerians and general lovers of a good film.
After having this in My List on Netflix for probably a year, I finally decided to watch it, being a skeptic of all films made in Nigerian. I hate Nollywood and their repetitive nonsense films about love, in laws and general foolishness about money. And don't get me started with the bad camera work and sound/sound effects. Enter October 1st, the films is simply everything I wanted plus more. A good detective film, a love story without too much emphasis on the love, a country's last journey through independence from the white man and the very good play on the stereotype of the different tribes that makes up the Fedral Republic of Nigeria. I spent the first 10 years of my life there and still have and love the vivid memory's however often forget, lest I am reminded by films like this. Culture, language, food, palm wine and of course the British. The film was well acted, very well directed, you knew who the perpetrator is from the get go, but due to everything that made up the rest of the film, I didn't care that it took a while to get to him. It also had plenty of Yoruba spoken in it which is my first language, so this is one I will be recommending to all my fellow Nigerians. I will be looking out for more work by Kunle Afolayan. Well done!!!
Into the Badlands: Chapter VI: Hand of Five Poisons (2015)
Sunny took them on!!!,
Those three monks had to turn ghost to take down Sunny. Sunny would have kicked their butts otherwise. This was the best episode so far. Fast forward to next week Tuesday, can't wait for it. I was beginning to think how much of a story there really could be here, surely they will escape for a better life and could not see it. Now that Quinn is dead, or is he? What happens now. This is much better written than I expected and the anticipation now grows with this climatic end of episode 6. It also begs the question, if the medallion was also found on Sunny as a boy, does he have the same power and it takes a different way to get it out of him and he was just never harnessed.