What is Nollywood Film Club?
It's a live conversation on X (Twitter) Spaces, hosted every Sunday at 6PM West African Time by Mr C, one half of Iroko Critic. One Nollywood film a week, discussed honestly and openly by anybody who shows up, regardless of background or film knowledge. The podcast is just the recording. The receipts, if you will.
How Sundays work
Everyone watches the film before Sunday. Then we gather, and the discussion runs the same four segments every week, a format so reliable you could set your disappointment to it.
The Good
We say what we liked. Some weeks this section is short. Some weeks it is very short.
The Bad
We say what we didn't like. This section has never once been short.
The Pushback
We disagree with each other. Civil, spirited, occasionally personal about a fictional character.
The Summary
Everybody lands the plane. Verdicts are delivered. Friendships survive, mostly.
The NFC score
After the discussion, members rate the film from 1 to 10. The average becomes the NFC score, and we show it as a percentage. No weighting, no secret formula. Everybody's rating counts exactly the same. Equally worse than Mr C's, obviously, but it counts. Scores appear once a title has at least 25 ratings.
The house rules
Every opinion is valid.
Filmmaker or Nollywood newbie, that is how you consume Nollywood, and nobody can take that from you.
No personal or unrelated insults.
Tone can be as harsh as the spirit leads, but personal unrelated insults will be removed. Drag the film all you like. Leave the person out of it.
Watch the film before Sunday.
You will not be entertained by other people's pain. This is a community, and as such, we shall all commune.
The people
Mr C
Your host. One half of Iroko Critic. Always crushing it, never makes a mistake, 100% of the time. His words, and who are we to argue with the man holding the microphone.
Mrs C
The other half of Iroko Critic, and the reason episodes occasionally end on time. Hosts when Mr C is away, which he describes as "an adequate job." It is more than adequate.
NFC Miscreants
The members who show up week after week to share detailed, funny, occasionally devastating takes, lovingly described by Mr C as "weapons fashioned against me." Some fought two VPNs just to watch the homework. That is commitment.
No miscreants crowned yet — check back after Sunday.
Join us
Come for the films. Stay because you've formed opinions and now you need witnesses. Join live on Sundays, or listen to the podcast after. Or don't.