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Must-see movies for the week
Pulse.ng presents you with all the great movies to see in the cinemas this week, from 'Fifty Shades of Grey' to 'The Antique' and many more. Check full list below.
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With the bulk of work activities on hold, what better way to ease off the stress of the week than watch a good movie amidst the easy camaraderie that exists in a cinema hall packed full with movie lovers.
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!
Genre: Animation
Starring: Rebecca Husain, Patrica Drake, Britt Irvin
Synopsis: a modern-day princess is kissed by a magical butterfly and discovers she has super powers. Will she join forces with her “super” friends and rid the kingdom of its enemy?
Showing:
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 12:50PM
Ozone Cinemas
Friday - Thursday - 10:45am
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 11.00AM, 12.45PM
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 12:40PM, 2:10PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday-Thursday : 11:00AM, 2:10PM
2. John wick
Genre: Action/Thriller
Starring:Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen
Synopsis: An ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
Showing:
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 2:00PM
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 6:20PM
Genre: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Starring:Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Eddie Redmayne
Synopsis: In a bright and colorful future, a young destitute caretaker gets targeted by a ruthless son of a powerful family that live on a planet in need of a new heir, so she travels with a genetically engineered warrior to the planet in order to stop his tyrant reign.
Peep the trailer
Showing:
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 11:05AM, 1:30PM, 3:55PM, 6:40PM, 9:00PM
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 2.30PM, 5.10PM, 7.50PM, 10.30PM
Ozone Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 4:05pm, 6:30pm, 8:50pm
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 12:50PM, 3:20PM, 5:50PM, 8:20PM
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 11:40AM, 2:05PM, 6:45PM, 9:15PM
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting
Synopsis: Two weeks shy of his wedding, a socially awkward guy enters into a charade by hiring the owner of a company that provides best men for grooms in need.
Peep the trailer
Showing:
Ozone Cinemas
Fri-Sun: 4:20pm, 6:20pm, 8:10pm
Mon-Thur: 4:20pm, 6:20pm
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 12:25PM, 6:30PM, 8:30PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday: 12:50PM, 3:45PM, 6:45PM, 8:45PM
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday - 1.40PM, 2.10PM, 3.50PM, 6.00PM, 9.40PM
Saturday - Sunday : 1.40PM, 3.50PM, 6.00PM, 9.40PM
Monday - Thursday : 2.10PM, 9.40PM
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 1:00PM, 3:00PM, 5:00PM, 7:00PM, 9:00PM
5. Taken 3
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Maggie Grace, Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen
Synopsis: Bryan Mills, an Ex-government operative is accused of a ruthless murder he never committed or witnessed as he is tracked and pursued, Bryan Mills brings out his particular set of skills to find the true killer and clear his name.
Showing:
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 4:50PM, 9:30PM
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday - Sunday - 11.45AM, 2.05PM, 8.10PM, 10.30PM
Monday - Thursday : 11.45AM, 2.05PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 5:25PM, 7:20PM, 9:20PM
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 12.40PM, 2:50PM, 5:00PM, 7:10PM, 9:20PM
Ozone Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 11:55am
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
Fri-Tues: 10:10am
7. Seventh Son
Genre: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Starring : Ben Barnes, Julianne Moore, Jeff Bridges
Synopsis: Young Thomas is apprenticed to the local Spook to learn to fight evil spirits. His first great challenge comes when the powerful Mother Malkin escapes her confinement while the Spook is away.
Showing:
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 10.45AM+92
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 2:10PM, 6:30PM, 8:30PM
8. Selma
Genre: Biography | Drama | History
Synopsis - A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.
Starring - David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth.
Showing
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 4:00PM, 9:00PM
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 4.20PM, 7.00PM
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday :10:30AM, 5:00PM
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 1:40PM, 6:05PM, 8:30PM
Ozone Cinemas
Fri-Sun: 12:35pm
Mon-Thur: 12:35pm, 9:15pm
9. ST Vincent
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Synopsis - A young boy whose parents have just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic war veteran who lives next door.
Starring - Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Watts
Showing
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Saturday : 10:45AM, 4:00PM
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 11.30AM
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 11:40AM, 4:05PM
Silverbird CInemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 3:00PM
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:
Ozone Cinemas
Saturday - Sunday : 10:00am
Friday -Thursday : 10:00am
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 3:40PM
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:
Ozone Cinemas
Friday, Monday -Thursday : 10:00am
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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:
SIlverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 2:00PM, 4:05PM, 6:20
Ozone Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 5:00pm
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 1.45PM, 4.00PM, 6.15PM, 8.30PM
Genre: Drama / Romance
Starring: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Jennifer Ehle
Synopsis:Literature student Anastasia Steele's life changes forever when she meets handsome, yet tormented, billionaire Christian Grey.
Showing
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 4.25PM, 7.00PM, 9.35PM
Ozone Cinemas
Friday - Sunday : 2:55pm, 7:00pm, 9:15pm
Monday -Thursday : 2:55pm, 7:00pm
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 11:40PM, 2:00PM, 4:20PM, 6:50PM, 9:20PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcout
Friday - Thursday : 1:40PM, 6:00PM, 8:20PM
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 6:30PM, 8:30PM
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:
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Wednesday - Thursday : 12:55PM, 3:35PM
Ozone Cinemas
Fri-Thur: 12:10pm
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 11:00AM, 2:40PM, 4:10PM
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 12:10PM, 2:00PM, 3:50PM
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 12.00PM, 2.10PM ( Except Saturday and Sunday)
Saturday - Sunday : 12.00PM
Genre: Comedy | Action| Adventure
Synopsis - A spy organization recruits an unrefined, but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
Starring - Colin Firth, Michael Caine, Taron Egerton
Showing
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 1.40PM, 4.20PM, 7.00PM, 9.40PM
Silverbird Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 10:30AM, 2:50PM, 7:00PM, 9:30PM
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 1:40PM, 4:10PM, 6:40PM, 9:10PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 11:00AM, 1:00PM, 3:55PM, 6:20PM, 8:50PM
Ozone Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 11:00am, 1:20pm, 3:40pm, 6:05pm, 8:25pm
Genre: Nollywood
Synopsis - The Antique is a fictional story, inspired by events of the Southern Nigeria people in the 19th Century. With a technique that combines theatrical aesthetics and culturally derived meanings, cultivated for utilitarian purposes, this film highlights on the characters that fought to defend its rich culture and help build it’s kingdom.
Starring -
Showing
Ozone Cinemas
Friday - Thursday :10:55am, 2:05pm
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 1:00PM, 5:05PM, 9:10PM
Silverbird Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 12:00PM, 2:10PM, 8:20PM
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Synopsis - Affluent and aimless, Conrad Valmont lives a life of leisure in his parent's prestigious Manhattan Hotel. In the span of one week, he finds himself evicted, disinherited, and... in love.
Starring - Jason Bateman, Olivia Wilde, Billy Crudup
Showing
Silverbird Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 12:50PM, 4:30PM
Genre: Nollywood
Synopsis - The Department is about Tolu Okoye, who worked in a secret criminal department of a respected Nigerian conglomerate until she got married. Now she’s a bored housewife and The Department wants her back for one last job. She accepts against the wishes of her husband who decides to sabotage The Department to save their marriage
Starring - Majid Michel, O.C.Ukeje, Osas Ighodaro, Desmond Elliot
Showing
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 11.45AM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 11:45AM, 8:30PM
Genre: Action | Biography | Drama
Synopsis - U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) takes his sole mission -- protect his comrades -- to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. His pinpoint accuracy not only saves countless lives but also makes him a prime target of insurgents.
Starring - Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner
Showing
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 11.00AM
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday :11:30AM, 4:00PM
Ozone Cinemas
Fri-Sun: 1:55pm
Mon-Thur: 1:55pm, 8:10pm
Silverbird Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 1:20PM, 3:50PM, 6:20PM, 8:50PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : : 6:30PM
Genre: Drama
Synopsis - In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Megan panics when her boyfriend proposes, then, taking an opportunity to escape for a week, hides out in the home of her new friend, 16-year-old Annika, who lives with her world-weary single dad.
Starring - Keira Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sam Rockwell
Showing
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 2:50PM
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