Must-see movies for the week

With that in mind, check out our list of movies currently showing in cinemas across Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt. So movie lovers, whip out your calendars and get marking for the Pulse movie team is on the prowl!

1. The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies

Genre: Adventure | Fantasy

Starring: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage

Synopsis: Bilbo and Company are forced to be embraced in a war against an armed flock of combatants and the terrifying Smaug from acquiring a kingdom of treasure and obliterating all of Middle-Earth.

Showing:

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday - 3:25pm, 6:05pm, 8:45pm

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 12:40PM,5:25PM

Sunday : 1:15PM, 6:25PM, 9:10PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 1.15PM, 4.10PM, 7.05PM, 8.35PM, 10.00PM, 11.30PM ( Except Sunday - Tuesday )

Sunday - Tuesday - 1.15PM, 4.10PM, 7.05PM, 8.35PM, 10.00PM, 11.30PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 1.10PM, 3.50PM, 6.30PM, 9.10PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Wednesday & Thursday : 10:30AM, 1:15PM, 4:00PM, 6:40PM, 9:20PM

2. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

Genre: Action/Adventure

Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson

Synopsis: Katniss Everdeen is in District 13 after she shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta and a nation moved by her courage.

Showing:

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday & Saturday _ 10:00AM, 12:20PM, 4:45PM, 10:50PM

Sunday - Thursday - 10:00AM, 12:20PM, 4:45PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 2.20PM, 8.50PM

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 1:15pm

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday & Saturday - 3.25PM, 6.00PM, 10.50PM

Sunday & Monday - 3.25PM, 6.00PM

Tuesday - 3.25PM, 6.00PM, 8.20PM

Wednesday & Thursday - 3.25PM, 6.00PM, 8.20PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday - 11:10AM, 1:25PM, 3:45PM, 6:05PM, 8:25PM

3. Horrible Bosses

Genre: Comedy

Starring: Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day

Synopsis: Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a harebrained and misguided kidnapping scheme.

Peep the trailer

Showing:

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 11:00AM, 3:10PM

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 9:15PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 6.35PM, 8.40PM

Genesis Deluxe

11.30AM, 1.50PM, 6.15PM

Ozone Cinemas

9:15pm

4. The

Genre: Animation/Adventure/Comedy

Starring:Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris, Nick Frost

Synopsis: A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator. Based on the children's novel 'Here Be Monsters' by Alan Snow.

Peep the trailer

Showing:

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 11:25am

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 11.05AM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 11.20AM, 2.50PM

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 10:30AM, 2:20PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 10:50AM, 12:40PM, 2:30PM

5. The Prince

Genre: Action/Adventure

Starring: Jason Patric, Bruce Willis, John Cusack

Synopsis: When his daughter is kidnapped, a retired assassin is drawn back into the life he gave up. To rescue her, he must confront his former rival.

Showing:

Genesis Deluxe

Friday - Thursday : 20:35PM, 10.40PM

Ozone Cinemas

11:25am

6. Penguins Of Madagascar

Genre: Action/ Adventure

Starring:

Synopsis: Super spy teams aren't born...they're hatched. Discover the secrets of the greatest and most hilarious covert birds in the global espionage biz: Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private

Peep the trailer

Showing:

Ozone Cinemas

11:50am

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 10:30AM

7. Head Gone

Genre: Drama

Starring : Wale Ojo, Yomi Obileye, Akpororo, Ali Baba, Basket mouth, 2face idibia.

Synopsis: The movie, which is a comedy, is centred on a busload of patients being conveyed to a mental institution, whose paths cross with unsuspecting people along the way and culminates in a string of hilariously unfortunate events.

Showing:

Ozone Cinemas

9:10pm

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 11: 50AM, 4:10pm11.50AM, 4.10PM11.50AM, 4.10PM11.50AM, 4.10PM

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday – Thursday : 12:45PM, 5:10PM

8. Sababi Eda

Genre: Drama

Synopsis - Story is centered on a young woman ‘Tolu’ {Funke Akindele} who suffers several heartbreak and disappointment, at the time she thought she found true love again..History begins to repeat itself. The story is also about betrayal and the place of posterity in life..

Starring - Funke Akindele, Odun Adekola, Fausat Balogun, Ade Aderenle

Showing

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 3:20pm, 5:30pm

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday – Thursday : 2:40PM,4:15PM

9. Night at the Museum : Secret of the Tomb

Genre: Comedy / Sequel

Synopsis - Larry spans the globe, uniting favorite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever.

Starring - Dan Stevens, Robin Williams, Rebel Wilson

Showing

Ozone Cinemas

10:00am, 11:50am, 1:40pm, 3:40pm, 6:40pm

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 12:30PM,6:45PM,8:40PM,10:50PM ( except Sunday, Monday and Tuesday )

Sunday, Monday & Tuesday : 12:30PM,6:45PM,8:40PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Saturday : 11:30AM, 1:25PM, 3:20PM, 5:10PM, 7:05PM, 9:00PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 11.10AM, 1.35PM, 3.40PM

10. Annie

Genre: Comedy

Starring: Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhané Wallis, Rose Byrne

Synopsis: Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in.

Showing:

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 2:55PM,6:20PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 4:20PM, 6:35PM, 8:50PM

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 10:00am, 12:10pm, 2:20pm, 4:30pm

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday, Sunday & Monday : 11.00AM, 5.45PM, 8.20PM

Saturday , Tuesday - Thursday : 11.00AM, 5.45PM

11: Big Hero 6

Genre: Animation | Action | Comedy

Starring : Jamie Chung, Damon Wayans Jr., Genesis Rodriguez

Synopsis: The special bond that develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes

Showing:

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 10.55AM, 1.10PM

Siverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 12:20PM

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 10:00am, 1:25pm

12. Invasion 1897

Genre: Nollywood

Starring:Mike Omoregbe, Rudolph Walker, Chucky Venn

Synopsis: Invasion 1897 is an epic film based on the invasion of the Benin Kingdom by the British Empire in 1897 and looting the priceless ancient artifacts of the Benin kingdom, including the famous commemorative head and pendant of ivory mask representing Queen Idia (from court of Benin, 16th century) who was the mother of Esigie, the Oba of Benin who ruled from 1504 to 1550.

Peep the trailer

Showing:

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 10:40AM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja:

Friday - Thursday : 12.20PM, 4.40PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 11:10AM, 3:05PM

13:

Genre: Comedy

Starring: Ayo Makun, Vivica A. Fox, Lynn Whitfield, Richard Mofe Damijo, Desmond Elliot, Ramsey Noah

Synopsis: Akpos In Atlanta is an adventurous love story – spiced with lots of action and hilarious moments. This a-laugh-a-minute story has been fully researched and well written. It paints, in beautiful colours, the hugely popular (and social media trending) Akpos character which was created from the AYShow’s Who Wants To Be A Billionaire hilarious skits.

Showing:

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday, Saturday, Wednesday & Thursday : 2.00PM,6.20PM, 7.30PM, 8.30PM, 10.40PM

Sunday – Tuesday : 2.00PM, 6.20PM, 7.30PM, 8.30PM

Ozone Cinemas

5:15pm, 7:15pm

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 7:10PM, 8:40PM2 b

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 7:10PM, 8:40PM

SIlverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 11:30AM,4:00PM, 6:20PM, 8:30PM

Genre: Romance

Synopsis - Wallace, who is burned out from a string of failed relationships, forms an instant bond with Chantry, who lives with her longtime boyfriend. Together, they puzzle out what it means if your best friend is also the love of your life.

Starring - Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan, Megan Park

Showing

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 4.40PM

15.The Two Faces of January

Genre:

Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, Oscar Isaac

Synopsis: A thriller centered on a con artist, his wife, and a stranger who flees Athens after one of them is caught up in the death of a private detective.

Showing

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 2:40PM, 6:40PM, 8;40PM

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday – Thursday : 2:30PM,7:20PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday – Thursday : 5.25PM, 9.50PM

16 :

Genre: Drama

Starring: Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Ben Kingsley

Synopsis: The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 600,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.

Showing:

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Wednesday - Thursday : 8.35PM, 11.35PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Wednesday - Thursday : 6:20PM, 9:10PM

SIlverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Wednesday - Thursday : 9:15PM

16 : Champagne

Genre: Drama

Starring: Majid Michel, Alexx Ekubo,ana Adelana, Mbong Amata, Susan Peters, Padita Agu

Synopsis: The film is a spellbinding romantic thriller about a couple in an open marriage whose habit of dating unsuspecting people for money and perks, takes an unexpected and decidedly dangerous turn.

Showing:

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 8:30pm

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 10:45AM,3:25PM,9:15PM

Sunday - 9:15PM