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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 'In The Music' to 'Insurgent' 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: Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thrille
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Theo James
Synopsis: Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart with the help from others on her side.
Showing:
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday - 1.05PM
Sunday : 1.05PM, 9.40PM
Monday - Thursday : 9.40PM
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 11:45AM, 4:30PM
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday : 11.40AM, 2.00PM, 4.20PM, 6.40PM
Sunday - Thursday : 11.40AM, 2.00PM, 4.20PM, 6.40PM, 9.00PM
Ozone Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 12:55pm, 3:30pm, 6:00pm, 8:00pm, 8:30pm
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Saturday : 11:40PM, 1:55PM, 4:10PM, 6:25PM, 8:40PM
2. Dazzling Mirage
Genre: Nollywood
Starring:Kemi ‘Lala’ Akindoju, Kunle Afolayan, Taiwo Ajai-Lycett, Bimbo Manuel, Carol King, Yomi Fash Lanso and Seun Akindele
Synopsis: Dazzling Mirage is more than just a movie; it’s a movement. The movie is a love story marked by acts of betrayal and loyalty as in the life of a sickle cell sufferer. It aims to help raise awareness about the sickle cell condition and to help people make better informed decisions.
Showing:
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 2.30PM, 6.50PM
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 Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 2.20PM, 7.05PM
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 10:30AM, 2:00PM
Wednesday : 2:00PM
4. In The Music
Genre: Nollywood
Starring:Omawumi Megbele, Keira Hewatch, Chelsea Eze, Bryan Okwara.
Synopsis: Ihuoma and Nnenna are two sisters that give a new meaning to the phrase "when life gives you lemons." having lost their mother to lung cancer at an early age, life becomes very complicated for them. Owing to life and its difficulties they had to survive the harsh realities of a big city. They journey through this musical quest finding happiness and as they make friends and enemies along the way.
Peep the trailer
Showing:
Ozone Cinemas
Mon -Thur: 10:25am, 8:20pm
Silverbird Port Harcourt
Mon - Thursday : 11:00AM, 1:40PM, 4:20PM, 8:50PM
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Sunday - Thursday : 2:20PM
Genesis Deluxe
Friday - Thursday : 3.40PM, 6.40PM, 9.40PM
Genre: Nollywood
Starring: Ini Edo, Joseph Benjamin, Venita Marie Akpofure
Synopsis: ‘While You Slept’ is about a lady, Amaka Okoro whose life has been turned upside down when Najite, a mysterious stranger shows up claiming to be the secret wife of Emeka…Amaka’s late husband.
Showing:
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 2.25PM, 8.55PM
Genesis Deluxe
Friday - Thursday : 11.00AM
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 10:30AM
Genre: Nollywood
Starring: Joselyn Dumas, OC Ukeje, John Dumas
Synopsis: A young surgeon's chance meeting with her ex-boyfriend throws her world into absolute chaos when she makes a horrible discovery about her past and what could be the end of a great career, and beautiful marriage. A poignant story about moving on when there's no light at the end of the tunnel.
Peep the trailer
Showing:
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 12.05PM, 4.15PM, 6.35PM
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 1.05PM
Ozone Cinemas
Fri-Sun: 12:40pm
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 4:55PM
7. Cinderella
Genre: Adventure | Drama | Family
Starring : Lily James, Hayley Atwell, Helena Bonham Carter
Synopsis: A live-action retelling of the classic fairy tale about a servant step-daughter who wins the heart of a prince.
Showing:
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 12.15PM, 4.30PM
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday and Sunday : 11.00AM, 1.20PM
Monday - Thursday :11.00AM, 1.20PM, 3.40PM
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 10:30AM, 2:40PM, 4:45PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 11:40AM, 1:50PM, 4:15PM
Ozone Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 1:45pm, 3:55pm
8. Son of A Gun
Genre: Action
Synopsis - JR busts out of prison with Brendan Lynch, Australia's most notorious criminal, and joins Lynch's gang for a gold heist that soon pits the two men against one another.
Starring - Ewan McGregor, Brendan Kerkvliet, Brenton Thwaites
Showing
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Fri-Thur: 2.25PM, 6.40PM, 8.50PM
Ozone Cinemas
Fri - Thursday : 2:30pm, 7:00pm
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 12:50PM, 4:45PM, 6:50PM
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 5:10PM, 9:10PM
9. Blackhat
Genre: Action / Drama
Synopsis - A furloughed convict and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta.
Starring - Al Pacino, Greta Gerwig, Kyra Sedgwick.
Showing
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 6:55PM, 9:15PM
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 2.10PM, 7.00PM, 9.30PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 11:10AM, 1:40PM, 4:05PM, 6:30PM, 8:55PM
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday - 12.50PM
Sunday : 112.50PM, 3.35PM, 5.05PM, 7.55PM, 10.00PM
Monday - Thursday : 12.50PM, 7.55PM
Ozone Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 1:05pm, 5:50pm, 7:50pm
10. Tracers
Genre: Action
Starring: Marie Avgeropoulos, Taylor Lautner, Rafi Gavron
Synopsis: Wanted by the Chinese mafia, a new York City bike messenger escapes into the world of parkour after meeting a beautiful stranger.
Showing:
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday - 11.00AM
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - 1.20PM, 3.20PM, 5.10PM, 7.00PM
Sunday - Thursday : 1.20PM, 3.20PM, 5.10PM, 7.00PM, 8:50pm
Ozone Cinemas
Friday -Thursday: 3:00pm, 6:05pm
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
12:25PM, 6:20PM
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:
Fri - Thur: 11:00am
12:
Genre: Drama
Starring : Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Jennifer Garner
Synopsis: An aging rock star decides to change his life when he discovers a 40-year old letter written to him by John Lennon.
Showing:
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 12:10PM, 2:15PM, 6:45PM, 8:45PM
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 12.00PM, 4.25PM, 6.30PM, 8.40PM
Ozone Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 4:55pm, 9:00pm
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 10:30AM, 12:35PM, 7:05PM
13.Focus
Genre: Drama /Crime / Drama
Starring: Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Rodrigo Santoro
Synopsis:A veteran grifter takes a young, attractive woman under his wing, but things get complicated when they become romantically involved.
Showing
Ozone Cinemas
Friday -Thursday : 4:30pm, 6:25pm
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Sunday - Thursday : 10.40AM, 3.25PM, 5.40PM, 7.45PM, 8.40PM
Silverbird Cinema Abuja
Friday - Thursday - 12.30PM, 2.50PM, 5.00PM, 7.10PM
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 6:45PM, 8:50PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 11:00AM, 1:00PM, 3:00PM, 5:00PM, 7:00PM, 9:00PM
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:
Ozone Cinemas
Fri-Thur: 12:00pm
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 12:40PM
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 : 11.40AM
Sunday : 11.30AM, 3.40PM
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - 2.00PM, 4.20PM, 6.20PM
Sunday - Thursday : 4.20PM, 8.40PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 1:35PM, 6:00PM, 8:30PM
Ozone Cinemas
Fri: 12:40pm, 3:40pm
Mon-Thur: 12:40pm, 3:40pm
Genre: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Synopsis - In the near future, crime is patrolled by an oppressive mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself.
Starring - Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman
Showing
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 2.10PM
Ozone Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 10:00am
Genre:
Synopsis - When Lou Bloom, a driven man desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.
Starring - Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton
Showing
Genesis Deluxe
Friday - Thursday : 6.15PM, 8.30PM
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 12.00PM, 2.20PM, 4.40PM, 7.00PM, 9.20PM
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Synopsis - As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
Starring - Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy
Showing
Silverbird Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 11.50AM, 4.40PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 4:20PM, 8:20PM
Ozone Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 12:15pm
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 11:15AM, 6:20PM
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Sunday - Thursday : 2.10PM, 6.10PM
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