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 - 2:10pm, 4:45pm

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 5:10PM,7:50PM,10:30PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 6.35PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 1.35PM, 6.25PM,9.00PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Wednesday & Thursday : 10:30AM, 1:10PM, 3:50PM, 6:30PM, 9:10PM

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:

Friday - Thursday - 2:55PM, 9:00PM

3. Don't Cry for Me

Genre: Romance

Starring: Joseph Benjamin, Uti Nwachukwu, Yvonne Nelson, Mary Lazarus, Yvonne Jegede

Synopsis: Alero believed she was in the perfect marriage to the perfect man. But all that changes when she wakes up to an empty bed, an empty wardrobe and a note from her husband that he had left her. No further explanations.

Peep the trailer

Showing:

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 2:35PM,9:00PM

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

Fri-Tues: 10:00am

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 12:50PM

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:

Ozone Cinemas

Fri-Tues: 12:30pm

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: 10:30am

Genesis Deluxe

11.00AM, 1.05PM

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:

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 12.40PM, 4.35PM

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

Fri - Thursday : 10:40am

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

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 10:30AM,12:25PM,5:10PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Saturday : 11:10AM, 1:00PM, 5:15PM, 7:10PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 11.30AM, 1.35PM, 4.30PM

Ozone Cinemas

Fri-Thur: 11:20am, 2:10pm, 4:50pm

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 : 10:00AM,2:20PM,4:35PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 11:00AM, 3:10PM, 5:25PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 2.35PM, 4.15PM

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 12:30pm, 2:40pm

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 11.00AM, 3.40PM, 6.15PM, 8.50PM

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

Fri-Thur: 12:15pm

12:

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 –Thursday : 3.05PM, 5.25PM, 7.45PM, 10.05PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 4.50PM

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 6:50PM,9:05PM

SIlverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 1:50PM, 6:15PM, 8:30PM

Ozone Cinemas

Fri-Sun: 4:15pm, 6:15pm, 8:15pm

Monday -Thur: 6:15pm, 8:15pm

13.Magic in the Moonlight

Genre: Romance

Starring: Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Marcia Gay Harden

Synopsis: A romantic comedy about an Englishman brought in to help unmask a possible swindle. Personal and professional complications ensue.

Showing

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday :2:40PM, 4:35PM, 9:15PM

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday – Thursday : 10:35AM,12:15PM,7:10PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 10.45AM, 1.45PM

Genre: Romance

Synopsis - When an enraged wife brutally murders her own sister and her beloved husband for having an affair, she must face the repercussion of her actions with the fruit of that affair.

Starring - Yvonne Nelson, Uche Jombo, Joke Sylva, Benjamin Joseph

Showing

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 11:00AM,2:15PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 1:40PM, 5:20PM, 9:00PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 11.00AM, 2.55PM, 6.50PM

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 : 12:25PM,4:30PM

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

Friday & Saturday : 11.00AM, 2.00PM, 5.00PM, 8.00PM, 9.30PM, 11.00PM

Sunday -Thursday - 11.00AM, 2.00PM, 5.00PM, 8.00PM, 9.30PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Wednesday - Thursday : 12:00PM, 2:50PM, 5:35PM, 6:35PM, 8:20PM

SIlverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 2:20PM,6:10PM,9:00PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 11.00AAM, 6.00PM, 9.00PM

Ozone Cinemas

Fri-Thur: 3:10pm, 5:50pm, 7:30pm

17 : 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

Fri-Thurs: 9:00pm

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 12:35PM,8:50PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 11:35PM, 3:15PM, 7:00PM

Genesis Deluxe

Friday - Thursday : 8.30PM

Genre: Comedy | Family | Fantasy

Synopsis - A witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree.

Starring - Anna Kendrick, Meryl Streep, Chris Pine, Johnny Depp

Showing

Genesis Deluxe

Friday - Thursday : 1.10AM, 1.45PM, 4.20PM, 6.55PM

Ozone Cinemas

Fri-Sun: 1:05pm, 8:30pm

Sun-Thur: 1:05pm, 4:00pm, 8:30pm

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday :10:30AM,2:45PM,3:50PM,6:25PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 11:40AM, 2:00PM, 4:20PM, 6:40PM, 9:00PM

Silverbird Abuja