In Leigh Whannell's sci-fi action B-movie, a damaged man gets implanted with a computer chip that turns him into a kick-ass killing machine, just like...a hundred previous characters you've seen.
“Upgrade” is a compact sci-fi action B-movie that wants to be a hip little genre exercise but doesn’t have the chops (or maybe it’s just the imagination) to entirely pull it off. Read More...
It used to be, there was truth and there was falsehood. Now there is spin and there are gaffes. Spin is often thought to be synonymous with falsehood or lying, but more accurately it is indifference to the truth. A politician engaged in spin is saying what he or she wishes were true, and sometimes, by coincidence, it is. Meanwhile, a gaffe, it has been said, is when a politician tells the truth–or more precisely, when he or she accidentally reveals something truthful about what is going on in his or her head. Read More...
Since then, he has charted a path as one of the new generation of filmmakers in a new Nollywood looking to push the envelope. His body of work includes Bank Alert, Day of Destiny, and Love in a Pandemic. In 2022, he was nominated for The Future Award for Directing. But Akay didn’t just wake up one morning on a set directing a film that won two AMVCAs for its lead actors. Read More...