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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 'Furious 7' to 'Addicted' and many more. Check full list below.
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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.
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:
Friday - Thursday : 4:20PM
Friday - Thursday : 11.40AM, 2.00PM, 4.20PM, 6.40PM, 9.00PM
Friday - Thursday : 2:20pm, 4:45pm
Friday - Saturday : 11:40PM, 1:55PM, 4:10PM, 6:25PM, 8:40PM
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 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:
Friday - Thursday : 12.00PM, 4.20PM
3. Addicted
Genre: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Starring: Sharon Leal, Boris Kodjoe, John Newberg
Synopsis: A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.
Peep the trailer
Showing:
Friday - Thursday : 1:00 PM, 3:00 PM, 5:00 PM, 7:10 PM, 9:20PM
Friday - Thursday : 4:35PM, 9:10PM
Friday - Thursday : 6:05pm, 8:10pm
Friday - Sunday : 6:20PM, 8.35PM, 10:05PM, 10.50PM
Monday - Thursday : 6:20PM, 8.35PM, 10:05PM
4. In The Music
Genre: Nollywood
Starring:Omawumi Megbele, Keira Hewatch, Chelsea Eze, Bryan Okwara.
Synopsis: Ihuoma and Nnenna are two sisters that lost their mother to lung cancer at an early age. Life becomes very complicated for them.
They journey through this musical quest finding happiness and as they make friends and enemies along the way.
Peep the trailer
Showing:
Monday -Thursday: 10:30am
Friday - Wednesday : 11:00AM, 3:10PM, 5:55PM
Thursday : 11:00AM, 1:40PM, 4:20PM, 8:45PM
Sunday - Thursday :1:20PM
Friday - Thursday :1.35PM, 4.35PM, 7.35PM
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 her late husband.
Showing:
Friday - Thursday : 2.10PM, 8.40PM
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.
Showing:
Friday - Thursday : 11.50PM, 4.00PM, 6.20PM
Friday - Thursday : 11.00AM
Friday - Thursday : 2:20PM
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:
Friday - Thursday : 12.10PM, 4.30PM
Friday - Thursday :11.00AM, 1.20PM, 3.40PM
Friday - Thursday : 12:45PM
Friday - Thursday : 12:15PM, 2:25PM
Friday - Thursday : 10:00am, 1:50pm
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
Fri-Thur: 2.20PM, 6.40PM, 8.50PM
Fri - Thursday : 5:30pm, 9:10pm
Friday - Thursday : 12:50PM, 4:45PM, 6:50PM
Friday - Thursday : 6:30PM
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 - Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Wei Tang.
Showing
Friday - Thursday : 6:45PM
Friday - Thursday : 2.10PM, 7.00PM, 9.30PM
Friday - Thursday : 1.10PM, 3.45PM
Friday - Thursday : 3:00pm, 7:35pm
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:
Friday - Thursday : 1.00PM, 3.00PM, 4.50PM, 6.40PM, 9.05PM
Friday - Thursday : 9:15PM
11:
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: 10:05am
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:
Friday - Thursday : 4:50PM, 9:00PM
Friday - Thursday : 12.50PM, 3.00PM, 5.00PM, 7.00PM
Friday - Thursday : 12:00PM, 7:00PM
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
Friday -Thursday : 7:15pm
Sunday - Thursday : 8.30PM, 10.45PM
Friday - Thursday - 12.30PM, 2.50PM, 5.00PM, 7.10PM, 9.20PM
Friday - Thursday : 8:45PM
Friday - Thursday : 11:05AM, 1:05PM, 6:50PM
Genre: Drama
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Seth Green, Clancy Brown
Synopsis: SpongeBob goes on a quest to discover a stolen recipe that takes him to our dimension, our world, where he tangles with a pirate.
Showing:
Fri-Thur: 11:25am
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
Friday - Thursday : 1.50PM
Friday - Thursday : 11:10AM, 4:00PM
Friday - Thur - 11:30am
Genre: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Synopsis - Deckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his family for the death of his brother.
Starring - Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson
Showing
Friday - Thursday : 1:10 PM, 3:50PM, 4:30 PM, 6:30 PM, 8:30 PM, 9:10 PM
Friday - Thursday : 10:25am, 12:55pm, 1:50pm, 3:30pm, 4:20pm, 6:05pm, 7:40pm, 8:40pm
Friday - Thursday : 10:35AM, 1:15PM, 3:50PM,4:35PM, 6:25PM,9:05PM
Friday - Saturday : 12.00PM, 2.45PM, 4.15PM, 5.30PM, 7.00PM, 8.15PM, 9.45PM, 11.00PM
Sunday - Thursday : 12.00PM, 2.45PM, 4.15PM, 5.30PM, 7.00PM, 8.15PM, 9.45PM
Friday - Thursday : 12:50PM, 3:25PM, 5:45PM, 6:40PM
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
Friday - Thursday : 10.50AM
Friday - Thursday : 12.00PM, 2.10PM, 7.05PM, 9.25PM
Friday - Thursday : 4:10PM, 8:35PM
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
Friday - Thursday : 11.50AM, 4.40PM
Friday - Thursday : 8:40PM
Friday - Thursday : 12:00pm
Friday - Thursday : 11:00AM
19. Home
Genre: Action / Drama
Synopsis - Oh, an alien on the run from his own people, lands on Earth and makes friends with the adventurous Tip, who is on a quest of her own.
Starring - Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin
Showing
Friday - Thursday : 10:30AM, 2:55PM, 4:50PM
Friday - Thursday : 12.10PM, 2.00PM, 3.50PM
Friday - Thursday : 1.15PM, 3.15PM
Friday - Thursday : 12:05pm, 1:10pm, 4:00pm
Friday - Thursday : 11:00AM, 11:30AM, 1:20PM, 3:10PM
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