Must-see movies for the week

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!

1.

Genre: Nollywood

Starring: Joke Silva, Ik Osakioduwa, Ivie Okujaye

Synopsis: It's almost election year and a ghetto brought up Senator , Maro Oti (Joke Silva) is about to make history as the first female Governor in Nigeria. An internationally acclaimed Biographer requests he writes her memoir, but his excitement however starts to dwindle as Senator Maro's tale of her past (played by Ivie Okujaiye) reveals a life of sexual abuse from childhood, prostitution as a teenager and an unresolved murder.

Showing:

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 1.10PM, 5.40PM

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 Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 12:35PM, 6:50PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 6:30PM, 8:40PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 12.00PM, 4.35PM

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 3:35pm

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 11:00AM, 1:25PM, 3:55PM, 6:10PM, 8:30PM

3. Jupiter Ascending

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 : 4:40PM, 7:00PM, 9:20PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 11.25AM, 2.00PM, 4.20PM

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 1:00pm

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 12:50PM, 3:10PM, 5:40PM, 8:10PM

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 2:30PM, 6:50PM, 9:15PM

4. The Wedding Ringer

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-Thur: 1:50pm

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 2:45PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday: 12:10PM, 2:20PM, 4:30PM, 6:40PM, 8:50

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 1:00PM, 12.50PM, 2.50PM, 4.50PM, 6.50PM, 8.50PM

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 : 9:15PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday :4.40PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 6.20PM, 8.30PM

6. The Duplex

Genre: Nollywood

Starring: Omoni Oboli, Mike Ezuruonye

Synopsis: The experiences of a loving couple who move into a duplex only to discover they’re not alone…. there’s a serial ghost killer on the loose; who’s going no where.

Peep the trailer

Showing:

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 3.10PM, 7.40PM

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 5:45pm

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:

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 12.20PM, 2.20PM, 4.20PM

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

Ozone Cinemas

Fri-Thur: 10 : 10PM

9. The Humbling

Genre: Comedy / Drama

Synopsis - A stage actor who is slowly losing his mind engages in a relationship with a sexually confused younger woman.

Starring - Al Pacino, Greta Gerwig, Kyra Sedgwick.

Showing

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 12:00PM, 4:30PM, 8:55PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 2:00PM, 8:50PM

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:

Ozone Cinemas

Friday -Thursday: 10:00am

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

Monday -Thursday : 10:00am

12:

Genre: Drama

Starring: Jackie Appiah,Bobby Obodo,Jazmyn Batchan,James Alexander III,Buddy Mark Miller Jr

Synopsis: Still Standing narrates a woman’s plight of raising teenagers and caring for a husband, while trying to sustain the family core values, livelihood and her sanity. It’s about choice.

Showing:

SIlverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 12:30PM, 2:25PM, 4:30PM, 6:30PM, 8:30PM

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 11:55am

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 11.00AM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 2.10PM, 6.40PM

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 11:25AM, 4:55PM

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 : 3:05pm, 5:00pm, 7:00pm, 9:00pm

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 2.05PM, 6.00PM, 7.00PM, 9.15PM, 11.30PM

Silverbird Cinema Abuja

Friday - Thursday - 11.40AM, 12.40PM, 2.50PM, 4.00PM, 5.00PM, 7.10PM, 9.20PM

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 10:30AM, 12:30PM, 4:35PM, 6:40PM, 8:45PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 11:00AM, 1:00PM, 3:00PM, 5:00PM, 7:00PM, 9:00PM

14 : The Spongebob Movie: Sponge out of Water

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 : 11:00AM, 12:50PM, 2:40PM

Ozone Cinemas

Fri-Thur: 12:05pm

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 11:00AM, 12:50PM, 2:40PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 1.00PM, 2.50PM, 4.40PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 11.50AM

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, Monday - Thursday : 4.30PM, 8.15PM, 9.35PM, 10.55PM

Saturday - Sunday : 3.15PM, 4.30PM, 8.15PM, 9.35PM, 10.55PM

Silverbird Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 1:20PM, 5:55PM, 8:25PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 12.40PM, 1.00PM, 3.10PM, 3.20PM, 5.40PM, 8.10PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 11:00AM, 1:25PM, 3:55PM, 6:20PM, 8:50PM

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 1:30pm, 3:50pm, 8:00pm

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 Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 11:30PM, 1:50PM, 4:10PM, 6:30PM, 8:50PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 11.30AM, 2.00PM, 7.05PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 11:50AM, 2:10PM, 4:30PM, 5:40PM, 6:50PM,7:50PM, 9:10PM

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 11:25AM, 1:45PM, 6:25PM, 8:45PM

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 11:15am, 2:05pm, 4:20pm, 6:10pm, 8:25pm

Genre: Biography / Drama / Crime

Synopsis - A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine ...

Starring - Jeremy Renner, Robert Patrick, Jena Sims

Showing

Silverbird Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 12.00PM, 2.10PM, 6.45PM, 8.55PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 10.50AM, 11.40AM, 2.00PM, 7.00PM

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 11.00AM, 1.20PM, 3.40PM

Saturday - Sunday : 11.00AM, 3.40PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 11:50AM, 4:15PM, 6:30PM

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 4:05PM

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

Silverbird Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 1:10PM, 3:40PM, 6:10PM, 8:40PM