The A24 house style, decoded
How a mid-sized distributor turned a color palette and a soundtrack sensibility into a recognisable brand of American film.
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Film
Film
The A24 house style, decoded
How a mid-sized distributor turned a color palette and a soundtrack sensibility into a recognisable brand of American film.
Kiribé Editor
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Film
Villeneuve's Dune Part Two blocking
The second Dune film is a masterclass in how to move actors through negative space — and how to make an epic feel human.
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Film
Barry Jenkins in his blue-hour period
From Moonlight to The Underground Railroad, Jenkins has been refining a single obsession — how light falls on Black skin at dusk.
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News
News
Cannes jury shortlist reactions
The final week's screenings produced a compressed shortlist and an unusually noisy set of industry reactions.
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News
A24 signs multi-picture deal
The distributor's new three-year commitment locks in slate depth and signals a shift in mid-budget commissioning.
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News
Netflix Naija's local-content push
The regional slate has doubled year over year, and the mix is shifting from acquisitions to originals.
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TV
The Bear's kitchen-choreography language
FX's kitchen drama is really a movement piece — its blocking is closer to modern dance than to workplace television.
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TV
Succession's Emmy shadow
Three years after it ended, HBO's Roy-family drama is still shaping what television awards juries recognise as prestige.
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TV
HBO's Sunday-night gamble
The network is spending big on a shrinking window — and the industry is watching to see whether appointment television can be rebuilt.
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Spotlight
“You either die a hero, or live long enough to become a villian”
UJ Nnamani
Videographer and Motion Designer
He is one of one.
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Opinion
Opinion
Why we still need the mid-budget movie
The film industry's argument against the mid-budget theatrical release is an economic one — and it deserves a cultural rebuttal.
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Opinion
Criticism after the algorithm
The recommendation engine has quietly displaced the critic as the primary gatekeeper — and film culture is worse for it.
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Documentary
Documentary
The Fela documentary that never was
Three attempts, three collapsed productions — and a set of unresolved rights issues that have kept the definitive Fela film unmade.
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Documentary
Making of Last Flight to Abuja
The behind-the-scenes documentary on Obi Emelonye's crash drama is a rare look at Nigerian genre production at scale.
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Documentary
Inside Nollywood's 2025 boom year
A verité-style feature documentary follows three Lagos production companies through the industry's most productive year in a decade.
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Events
Events
TIFF's African Cinema Pavilion
Toronto's new permanent pavilion is the most concrete institutional commitment to African cinema any major festival has yet made.
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Events
AMVCA 2026 wrap
This year's Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards confirmed the direction of Nigerian television and produced a few unexpected wins.
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Events
AFRIFF opens Lagos
The Africa International Film Festival returned to Lagos with its largest slate ever — and its most confident opening night in a decade.
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