Posted At : April 12, 2008 8:43 AM
| Posted By : Dupe Olorunjo
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I enjoy watching Queen Latifah on Film. Shes funny, bubbly and so full of life. In her 2006 film called Last Holiday, she plays the part of Georgia Byrd, an employee in a department store in New Orleans. She is a hesitant, timid and unassuming woman who leads a perfunctory lifestyle; well behaved and strictly obeying orders from her superiors regardless of what she thinks.
At home she has a scrap book labelled a book of possibilities; detailed with pictures of places she would like to visit and things she would like to do. The book becomes a place to store her dreams, vision and hopes; she reviews them at night but never gives a thought at the possibility of actually living them through.
One day, she hits her head on a cabinet and visits the hospital for a CT scan. In the course of the investigations she is diagnosed with a rare incurable disease and is given just three weeks to live.
Stunned and afraid, she goes home and ponders on all the things she had planned to do with her life. Suddenly she realises that even though she does not have much time, she still has three whole weeks.
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Posted At : April 10, 2007 1:05 PM
| Posted By : Dupe Olorunjo
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Over the weekend I watched a Nigerian Film called Amazing grace directed by Fred Amata.
I understand it is the first 35mm Film by a Nigerian producer and is clearly international standard. The cast was made up of both foreigners and Nigerians including our own Joke Silva.
Amazing grace is the story of John Newton, a slave trader who was miraculously saved through what he called Gods amazing grace during a violent storm, and eventually renounced slavery and turned to religion. He later joined the fight to abolish slavery and also wrote the worlds most famous hymn, Amazing Grace, based on an African melody.
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Posted At : January 29, 2007 10:02 AM
| Posted By : Dupe Olorunjo
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I watched this film for the second time last month and I have to say it is a classic by my definition. The strength of the story is in its powerful message and the moral that ca not be missed. I was not surprised to find it on the list of the
Top 100 movies of all time.
An executive banker Andy Dufresne is sentenced to life imprisonment for a crime he did not commit. He is placed in one of the worst prisons you could think of.
He becomes a prisoner but from his first day, it is clear he does not belong there. The fact is that his heart was not imprisoned; the prison had his body but clearly not his soul.
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