Showing posts with label Cinema. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cinema. Show all posts
British Council has announced a partnership with Filmhouse Cinema for a screening of English National Theatre's award winning production of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes in Ibadan.

The Founder of the Deeper Life Church Ministry, Pastor Williams F. Kumuyi has featured in a £1 million thriller Christian movie titled Snare, where he played a role of a pastor. 

Filmhouse Cinema Dugbe has announced it would be showing football matches at the 2014 FIFA World Cup free at the cinema located in Dugbe.
The author of Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Adichie, has accused Nigeria of denial in relation to the events of the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War. 

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is currently showing at The FilmHouse Cinema Dugbe, Ibadan. When I saw it on Friday, the entire hall was filled suggesting that maybe we now have many movie enthusiasts in Ibadan, or many wanted to watch the last N500 movie of the week.

About Last Night is the third movie starring Kevin Hart since December. I saw the movie twice at The FilmHouse Cinema in Ibadan. The first time, I went with a female friend while for the second time, I went all alone armed with a big bowl of popcorn and Pepsi.

It feels good to laugh. After bingeing on a heavy meal of year-end movie releases — those films competing for a gold trophy come March — it’s easy to forget how pleasant a moderately inane broad comedy can be.

It's a star-studded movie and you tend to fall in love with the cast. But the whole production compels you to chose between a good plot and a good laugh. If you want the former, Baggage Claim isn't for you. But if you just want a good laugh after a stress-filled day in Ibadan, Nigeria, then get popcorn handy, stretch your legs and relax your brain for the entire duration of the movie because you don't really need it for this one.
Fresh off his charming portrayal of cocky racecar driver James Hunt in 'Rush', Chris Hemsworth slips back into his Asgardian armor as he prepares to take on The Dark Elves in this ridiculously complicated story. 

Turns out this ancient race of evil aliens, led by the vengeful Malekith (Christopher Eccleston) is seeking a powerful energy source that has somehow found its way into the body of Thor's astrophysicist girlfriend Jane Foster (Natalie Portman). 

Left with no choice but to reunite with his unreliable brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston), currently locked away in a prison cell in Asgard, Thor must not only protect his ladylove, but also foil Malekith's plan to plunge the entire cosmos into darkness and despair.

Everything moves at a frenetic pace in this film, giving you barely any chance to enjoy the action, to soak in a clever one-liner, or to mourn the death of a loved character. The special effects are pretty impressive, but Asgard still looks like a gaudy Vegas attraction. 

What's surprising about the film is how spectacularly uninvolving it is. The previous film had a nice fish-out-of-water charm, but this one's trying too hard to achieve an epic feel.

The best moments are the humorous bits, including Loki's stinging putdowns, and stray clap-traps provided by the likes of Jane's bumbling intern (Kat Dennings), her would-be-suitor (Chris O'Dowd), and her daft mentor (Stellan Skarsgard). 

Hemsworth himself gets a few light moments, including a scene in which Thor travels on the London tube with cape and all. These little treats are scattered sparingly during the film, which expectedly focuses on Thor's mission to save the Nine Realms from imminent disaster.

Unfortunately that's as formulaic and predictable as the recipe for an omelette, and there's never any real sense of fear or dread when Thor faces off against the supposedly indestructible villains. As superhero movies go, this is underwhelming stuff.
Organizers of TEDxBodija, the first TEDx event in the ancient city of Ibadan have said the event would be held at FilmHouse Cinema Room 1, Heritage Mall, Dugbe Ibadan.

In a chat with IBPulse.com, Olufemi Babologbon, TEDxBodija's licensed organizer said the decision to hold the event at the Heritage Mall was reached following a visit of the organizing team to the cinema.

"The team went to check the cinema, saw that it is designed like most venues used for TEDx talks outside Nigeria: the podium, the screen, the aesthetics and the size, all to give us TED-like experience," Femi told IBPulse.com.

The event will hold on November 30, 2013 at Cinema Hall 1, FilmHouse, Heritage Mall Ibadan. The theme is Time and Space".

"TEDxBodija was licensed in May 2013 - Its focus is on sharing ideas between businesses, people and communities in Ibadan. The theme for TEDxBodija holding on 30th of November, 2013 is: ''TIME AND SPACE''. It holds on 30th November, 2013 by 12 noon," the organizers said in a statement.


"Created in the spirit of TED’s mission, “Ideas worth spreading,” the TEDx program is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level. TEDx events are fully planned and coordinated independently, on a community-by-community basis.

The cinema has however denied it agreed to host the event. In a tweet it said it is not aware of the agreement.

"Filmhouse has no agreement to host this event. Thank you," it tweeted.


For weeks I waited for the screening of 2 Guns at my favorite cinema in Ibadan. Even from the title of the movie coupled with the lead actors and movie trailers, it wasn't hard to know that 2 Guns would be quite unique in the genre of crime films.

Directed by Marc Forster, World War Z evokes the hectic density of modern life; it stirs fears of plague and anarchy, and the feeling that everything is constantly accelerating. At times, it has the tone and the tempo of panic.