It's the start of another week and as usual, us good folks at Pulse bring you great ways to spend the time.
'Southpaw,' 'Boychoir,' 'A Soldier's Story' and more
Pulse.ng presents you with all the great movies to see in the cinemas this week, from 'Southpaw,' 'Boychoir,' 'The Visit,' 'A Soldier's Story' and more, check out this week's cinema schedule.
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What better way to ease off the stress of the week than watch a good movie.
With that in mind, check out our list of movies currently showing in cinemas across Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt.
1.Southpaw
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Oona Laurence
Synopsis: Boxer Billy Hope turns to trainer Tick Willis to help him get his life back on track after losing his wife in a tragic accident and his daughter to child protection services.
Showing:
Friday - Thursday : 1:45PM, 9:10PM
Friday - Thursday : 1:10PM, 3:30PM, 5:50PM, 8:10PM
Friday - Thursday : 4:05pm, 8:50pm
Fri and Sat: 10:30 am, 3:45 pm, 11:30 pm
Sun - Thu: 10:30 am, 3:45 pm
Friday - Thursday : 2:00PM, 8:30PM
2. The Intern
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Robert De Niro, Nat Wolff, Rene Russo
Synopsis: 70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
Showing:
Friday - Thursday : 2:10PM, 6:20PM
Friday - Thursday : 12:05pm, 4:15pm
Friday - Thursday : 1:45PM
Genre: Action and Drama
Starring:Linda Ejiofor, Tope Tedela, Adesuwa Etomi,Zainab Balogun, Daniel K Daniel.
Synopsis: A Soldier’s Story” centres on Regina, a young female scavenger who rescues a soldier who had been left for dead. After protecting and nursing him back to health for months, the fighter finally awakens but has no recollection of who he is and his past.
As time goes on, the soldier begins to develop feelings for Regina but as he begins to regain his memory, he starts to realize he might actually have a life in Nigeria.
Showing:
Friday - Thursday: 2:40 pm, 6:10 pm, 7:25 pm, 8:25 pm, 10:40 pm
Friday - Thursday : 12:50PM, 4:50PM, 8:50PM
Friday - Thursday : 2:20pm, 6:35pm
Friday - Thursday : 12:10PM, 6:40PM
4.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson
Synopsis : The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
Fri-Thur: 10:00am
Friday - Thursday : 12:00PM, 2:20PM, 4:40PM, 7:00PM, 9:30PM
Friday - Thursday : 6:45PM, 9:10PM
Friday - Thursday : 4:35PM, 8:45PM
Friday - Thursday : 1:15 pm, 6:30 pm, 9:00 pm
Starring: Levi Miller, Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund
Synopsis: 12-year-old orphan Peter is spirited away to the magical world of Neverland, where he finds both fun and dangers, and ultimately discovers his destiny -- to become the hero who will be forever known as Peter Pan.
Showing:
Friday - Thursday : 12:20PM, 2:30PM, 16:40PM, 6:50PM, 9:00PM
Friday - Thursday : 12:25pm, 2:35pm
Friday - Thursday : 4:30PM
Fri - Wed: 11:00 am, 1:30 pm, 3:50 pm
Thu: 3:50 pm
Friday - Thursday : 11:40AM, 6:50PM
Starring: Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush
A teenager teams up with the daughter of young adult horror author R.L. Stine after the writer's imaginary demons are set free on the town of Madison, Delaware.
Friday - Saturday : 1:00 pm, 2:40 pm, 4:55 pm, 7:10 pm
Friday - Thursday : 12:30PM, 2:30PM, 4:30PM, 6:30PM, 8:30PM
Friday - Thursday : 11:05am, 1:00pm, 3:00pm, 4:55pm, 6:55pm
Friday - Thursday : 11:50AM, 2:00PM, 6:50PM
Friday - Thursday : 11:20AM, 3:40PM, 6:00PM
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elected government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
Featuring: Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro
Friday - Thursday : 4:20PM, 8:45PM
Fri and Sat: 10:30 am, 4:55 pm, 6:00 pm, 9:40 pm, 11:30
Sun - Thu: 10:30 am, 4:55 pm, 6:00 pm, 9:40 pm
Friday - Thursday : 4:45pm, 6:20pm, 8:40pm
Friday - Thursday : 1:20PM, 3:40PM, 6:00PM, 8:20PM
Starring: O'Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell
Synopsis: The group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.
Friday - Thursday : 2:40PM, 8:00PM
Friday - Thursday : 11:45am
9. The Walk
. HITMAN: AGENT 47 centers on an elite assassin who was genetically engineered from conception to be the perfect killing machine, and is known only by the last two digits on the barcode tattooed on the back of his neck. He is the culmination of decades of research and forty-six earlier Agent clones -- endowing him with unprecedented strength, speed, stamina and intelligence. His latest target is a mega-corporation that plans to unlock the secret of Agent 47's past to create an army of killers whose powers surpass even his own. Teaming up with a young woman who may hold the secret to overcoming their powerful and clandestine enemies, 47 confronts stunning revelations about his own origins and squares off in an epic battle with his deadliest foe.
STARRING: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Charlotte Le Bon, Guillaume Baillargeon
Silvervbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday: 1:00PM, 5:10PM, 7:20PM
Ozone Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 6:20pm
Silvervbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday: 12:25PM, 6:05PM, 8:30PM
Silvervbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday: 6:35PM, 8:50PM
Synopsis: During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
Friday - Thursday: 4:20PM, 9:10PM
Friday - Thursday : 10:45am, 8:35pm
Friday - Thursday: 4:10PM, 8:10PM
Friday - Thursday: 6:15PM
Starring: Juliet Ibrahim, Sonia Ibrahim, James Gardiner, Bryan Okwara.
Synopsis: In the midst of searching for a place to spend her honeymoon, the bride-to-be meets her first and true ex-lover ‘JAY’. In planning the wedding, ‘DESMOND’ the groom was out on a date with his mistress but coincidentally he ended up in the hotel the wife-to-be was booking for their honeymoon.
Suspense crescendos as four rivals end up under a roof. Will the engaged couple ever meet in the hotel? Perhaps, romance may be shattered… find out the confusion, deceit, love and betrayal in SHATTERED ROMANCE.
Friday - Thursday: 1:10PM, 5:00PM
Friday : Thursday : 10:30AM, 4:05PM
Friday : Thursday : 11:45AM
Friday - Thursday : 9:25 pm
Friday - Thursday : 8:30pm
Starring : Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black
Synopsis : After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.
Friday - Thursday :10:30 am, 12:35 pm
Friday - Thursday : 10:15am
Starring: Omoni Oboli, Joseph Benjamin, Chinedu Ikedieze, Alex Ekubo.
Synopsis: "In a classic Cinderella like story, a prostitute, Michelle, is stuck in a world she couldn't escape from. Her hope that one day a Prince Charming would rescue her from it all seems lost. An heir to an empire, Kenechi, is transformed into a child by an overly ambitious uncle who wants the empire to himself. Bound by a shared destiny, Michelle finds that she might be doing the rescuing until she realises there's no escaping her pimp (Obama), who would do anything to keep her as his First Lady"
Thursday - Friday : 2:10pm
Thursday - Friday : 2:25pm
Thursday - Friday : 2:15PM, 4:45PM
Thursday - Friday : 6:25PM
Friday - Thursday : 11:55AM, 2:00PM, 7:00PM
Starring: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Irrfan Khan, Shabana Azmi
Synopsis: Tensions arise when the daughter of nation's best lawyer is kidnapped. Now she'll have to save a rapist from death sentence, as ransom, within 4 days.
Friday - Thursday: 7:00pm
Starring: Ed Skrien, Ray Stevenson, Loan Chabanol
Synopsis: Frank Martin is living a less perilous lifestyle, or so he thinks, transporting classified packages for questionable people. Things get complicated when femme fatale Anna and her three accomplices orchestrate a bank heist and the kidnapping of Frank's father. It's all part of a grand plan to take down the human trafficker who victimized her years earlier. Now a pawn in her vengeful scheme, the former special-operations mercenary must use his covert skills to play Anna's dangerous game.
Friday - Thursday : 10:15am
Starring: Sanaa Lathan, Michael Ealy, Morris Chestnut
Synopsis: After breaking up with her boyfriend, a professional woman gets involved with a man who seems almost too good to be true.
Friday - Thursday: 3:00PM, 6:40PM, 8:45PM
Friday - Thursday: 5:10PM
Friday to Thursday : 4:25pm, 9:15pm
Friday - Thursday : 8:50PM
Starring : Nse Ikpe Etim, Femi Jacobs, Bayray Mckwinzu and Blossom Chukwujekwu
Synopsis: Is a story of two couples living together in the same house, but with completely different lifestyles. Their parallel lifestyles at a point colluded and the resulting effect were intriguing plots and sub-plots
Fri, Mon and Wed: 3:15 pm
Sat, Sun, Tue and Thu: 3:15 pm, 8:30 pm
Friday - Thursday : 8:35pm
Starring : Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Synopsis :After having escaped the Maze, the Gladers now face a new set of challenges on the open roads of a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles.
Friday -Thursday : 10:00am
Starring : Dustin Hoffman, Kevin McHale, Josh Lucas
Synopsis : Stet, a troubled and angry 11-year-old orphan from a small Texas town, ends up at a Boy Choir school back East after the death of his single mom. Completely out of his element, he finds himself in a battle of wills with a demanding Choir Master who recognizes a unique talent in this young boy as he pushes him to discover his creative heart and soul in music.
Friday - Thursday: 11:45AM, 2:45PM
Sunday : 2:45PM
Friday - Thursday:12:00PM, 4:25PM
Friday -Thursday : 12:00pm
Friday - Thursday : 2:50PM, 6:50PM, 8:50PM
Fri - Wed: 11:00 am, 1:30 pm, 3:50 pm
Thu: 3:50pm
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