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Must-See Movies for the Weekend!

It's the start of another weekend and usual, us good folks at Pulse bring you great ways to spend the time. 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. T

Genre: Comedy

Starring: Cameron Diaz, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Kate Upton, Leslie Mann

Synopsis:

After realizing she is not her boyfriend's primary lover, a woman teams up with his wife and plots mutual revenge.

Showing:

Silverbird Cinemas (Ikeja)

Friday to Sunday: 5:45PM

Genesis Deluxe

Friday: 10.00AM

Silverbird ( Port-Harcourt)

Fri-Sun -  12:00PM 6:35PM, 2:10PM, 4:25PM, 8:45PM.

Silverbird ( Abuja)

Fri- Sun: 11.40AM, 1.50PM, 4.10PM, 6.20PM, 8.30PM

Ozone Cinema

Fri-Sun : 6:250pm

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Fri-Sun : 10:00AM

2. X-Men: Days of Future Past

Genre: Action/Adventure

Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Peter Dinklage, Michael Fassbender, Evan Peters

Synopsis: The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.

Showing:

Silverbird Cinemas (Abuja)

Friday to Sunday: 11.10AM, 1.40PM, 4.10PM, 6.40PM, 9.10PM

Silverbird Cinemas (Ikeja)

Friday to Sunday: 10:45AM, 1:15PM, 3:45PM, 6:15PM, 8:45PM

Ozone Cinemas

Fri - Sun : 10:35PM, 1.00PM,2.25PM, 3.30PM,6.00PM, 6.55PM.

Genesis Deluxe

Fri & Sat: 10.10AM, 12.50PM, 3.30PM, 4.25PM, 6.10PM, 7.05PM, 8.50PM, 9.45PM, 11.30PMSun - Thur: 10.10AM, 12.50PM, 3.30PM, 4.25PM, 6.10PM, 7.05PM, 8.50PM, 9.45PM

3. Godzilla

Genre: Action & Adventure

Starring:Elizabeth Olsen, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bryan Cranston, Andy Serkis

Synopsis: The world's most famous monster is pitted against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence

Peep the trailer

Showing:

Silverbird Abuja:

Friday1.10PM, 3.40PM, 6.10PM, 8.40PM

Ozone Cinemas

10:55am, 1:15pm, 2:15pm, 3:30pm, 4:35pm, 6:00pm, 6:55pm, 8:20pm

Silverbird Cinemas (Ikeja)

Friday to Sunday: 11:30AM, 4:50PM, 6:50PM, 9:10PM

Silverbird Cinemas (Port Harcourt)

Friday - Saturday : 11:30AM 1:50PM 4:15PM 6:40PM 9:00PM

Genesis Deluxe

Fri & Saturday : 12.20PM, 2.55PM, 7.50PM, 10.25PM

Sunday :  12.20PM, 2.55PM, 7.50PM.

Ozone Cinemas

Fri-Sun : 3.55PM, 5.55PM

4.Finding Love

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis - A romantic comedy that sheds light on the challenges and flaws most youths face in relationships. It focuses more on the absurd alliances that the media does not concentrate on but which we all know exist- the relationship between a celebrity and his female fans, a bisexual man’s love trials, the relationship between a sugar-daddy and his beneficiary, and three others. Each story is told independent of each other, and is narrated by an online radio host, who also gives his opinion on the love issues.

Starring - Denrele Edun, Bryan Okpara, Uru Eke, Kiki Omeili, Luclay Misoya and Babalwa Mnemo

Showing

Silverbird Abuja

Fri-Sun : 11.40PM, 5.10PM,8.50PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Fri: 9:15pm

Silverbird Port Harcourt

Fri-Sun : 4:20PM

5.Knocking On Heaven's Door

Genre: Drama

Starring:  Majid Michel, Ini Edo-Ehiagwina, Blossom Chukwujekwu  and Adesuwa Etomi.

Synopsis: an emotional story on domestic violence, betrayal, passion, faith and love. Debbie (Adesuwa Etomi) is a beautiful singer with a heavenly voice, married to the handsome and charismatic Moses (Blossom Chukwujekwu), she is the envy of many. Debbie however harbours a dark secret that.

Showing:

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas (3D)

Friday- 6.50PM

Silverbird Abuja

Fri-sun: 12.00PM, 4.20PM

6. Reasonable Doubt

Genre: Crime | Thriller Starring: Dominic Cooper, Samuel L. Jackson, Gloria Reuben

Synopsis: A District Attorney has his life turned upside down when he's involved in a hit and run and another man is arrested for his crime and charged with murder

Peep the trailer

Showing:

Silverbird Cinemas(Ikeja)

Friday-Sunday: 9:00PM

Genesis Deluxe

Fri - Sun : 9:15PM

Silverbird Abuja

Friday - Sunday : 3.40PM, 7.10PM, 9:00PM.

7.  Single Mum's Club

Genre: Comedy/Drama

Starring:  Nia Long, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Amy Smart

Synopsis: When five struggling single moms put aside their differences to form a support group, they find inspiration and laughter in their new sisterhood, and help each other overcome the obstacles that stand in their way.

Peep the trailer

Showing:

Silverbird Cinemas ( Abuja)

Friday to Sunday: 3:20PM

8. Devil in the Detail

Genre: Drama

Starring

Nse Ikpe-Etim, Adjetey Anang, Ecow Smith-Asante

Synopsis: The movie is centered on a suspicious affair which ruins an almost perfect marriage as husband and wife take a wild goose chase into the world of sex, lies and betrayal, risking everything in one of the craziest love triangles ever.

Showing:

Silverbird Cinemas (Abuja)

Fri - Sun : 1.30PM, 3.20PM, 7.00PM

Silverbird Cinemas (Ikeja)

Friday - Sunday : 3:50PM

Silverbird Port Harcourt

Friday - Sunday : 12:50PM 2:40PM 4:50PM 6:50PM 8:50PM

Film House Surulere

Friday - Sunday : 10:35AM, 12:20PM, 9:50PM

Genesis Cinemas

Fri & Sat : 4.45PM, 11.25PM

Sun - 4.45PM

9. The Legend Of Hercules

Genre:

Starring: Kellan Lutz, Gaia Weiss, Scott Adkins

Synopsis: The origin story of the the mythical Greek hero. Betrayed by his stepfather, the King, and exiled and sold into slavery because of a forbidden love, Hercules must use his formidable powers to fight his way back to his rightful kingdom.

Showing:

Ozone Cinemas

5:00pm, 9:25pm

Silverbird Cinemas ( Abuja)

Fri - Sun : 1.40PM, 7.30PM, 9.30PM/

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday : 12.05PM, 2.15PM, 5.30PM, 7.05PM

10. Captain America

Genre: Action/Adventure

Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Cobie Smulders

Synopsis:  .Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world and battles a new threat from old history: the Soviet agent known as the Winter Soldier.

Showing:

Silverbird Cinemas (Port-Harcourt)

Friday to Sunday : 12:30PM 5:45PM 8:20PM

Silverbird Cinemas ( Abuja)

Friday to Sunday : 12.20PM, 3.00PM, 5.40PM, 8.20PM

Genesis Cinemas

Friday- 4.15PM

Silverbird Ikeja

Friday - Sunday : 1:50PM, 9:15PM

Ozone Cinemas:

1:25pm

11. Mama Africa

Genre: Action/Adventure

Starring:  Zach Orji, Tonto Dikeh, Frank Arthus, Chigozie Atuanya, Jibola Dabo, Livinus Nnochiri.

Synopsis:  Over 500 Children die of fake vaccine epidemic, the poor and needy locked up in a military detention camp without any hope of food or freedom, the rich and wealthy embezzling and celebrating until one man, Nathan steps into the picture giving up his life, family and freedom all in a bid to save his mother land.

Showing:

Silverbird Cinemas (Port-Harcourt)

12:05PM 2:10PM 4:20PM 6:30PM 8:40PM

Silverbird Cinemas ( Abuja)

Friday to Sunday: 12.20AM, 4.20PM

12. Heaven Is Real

Genre: Drama

Starring: Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly, Connor Corum, Margo Martindale, Thomas Haden Church Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly, Connor Corum, Margo Martindale, Thomas Haden Church

Synopsis: Heaven is for Real tells the true story of a young boy's journey to Heaven and back. A four-year-old Nebraskan, Colton, makes a miraculous recovery during a surgery that he was expected to not wake up from. In the amount of time that he was lying still on the operating table, Colton reveals to his parents that he took a trip to the other side, saying that he saw God and deceased loved ones that he should have no knowledge of. Their world is turned upside down as the child shares the intimate details of life after death.

Showing:

Silverbird Cinemas (Port-Harcourt

Fri - Sun : 8:50PM

Silverbird Cinemas ( Abuja)

Friday to Sunday: 2.20PM, 6.40PM, 8.45PM

13. Endless Love

Genre: Romance

Starring: Gabriella Wilde, Alex Pettyfer, Bruce Greenwood

Synopsis:   The story of a privileged girl and a charismatic boy whose instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.

Showing:

Genesis Cinemas

Fri - Sun : 10.00AM

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday -Sunday 1:20PM

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