It's the start of another week and as usual, us good folks at Pulse bring you great ways to spend the time.
"Diary of a Lagos Girl," "Couple of Days," "Beyond Blood," "Momentum"
It's a new week, and we have lots of great movies showing in the cinemas this week. From "Momentum" to "Eden," and more, check out this week's cinema schedule.
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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.
1. Creed
Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson
Synopsis: The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed.
Showing:
Friday - Thursday: 10:15am
Friday - Thursday: 8:45PM
Friday - Thursday: 8:10PM
2. Momentum
Starring: Olga Kurylenko, James Purefoy, Morgan Freeman
Synopsis: Alex, a mysterious thief, is pulled in by her former partner for one last heist. She quickly finds it was never just about the diamonds. A brutal murder sparks a cat and mouse chase between Alex and a master assassin. Now she must uncover the lies behind the heist and discover the secrets behind the men who have made her a target.
Showing:
Friday - Thursday: 2:20pm, 5:10pm, 7:05pm, 9:00pm
Friday - Thursday: 1:00 pm, 5:00 pm, 7:05 pm, 9:10 pm
Friday - Thursday: 3:40PM,8:40PM
Friday - Thursday: 2:50PM, 7:05PM
Friday - Thursday: 12:50PM, 2:50PM, 4:50PM, 6:50PM, 8:50PM
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Starring: Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher
Synopsis: Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and his army of Stormtroopers.
Showing:
Friday - Thursday: 12:35pm
Friday - Thursday: 6:10PM, 8:40PM
Friday - Thursday: 3:55PM
4.
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence,Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Edgar Ramirez, Isabella Rossellini
Synopsis : JOY is the wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce. Allies become adversaries and adversaries become allies, both inside and outside the family, as Joy's inner life and fierce imagination carry her through the storm she faces.
Friday - Thursday: 6:45PM
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Starring: Dakore Akande, Ireti Doyle, Dakore Egbuson
Synopsis: FIFTY captures a few pivotal, days in the lives of four Nigeria women at the pinnacle of their careers. Meet Tola, Elizabeth, Maria and Kate four friends forced at midlife to take inventory.
Showing:
Fri, Sat and Wed: 1:00 pm
Friday - Thursday: 6:40pm
Friday - Thursday: 12:00PM, 2:00PM, 4:00PM, 6:00PM, 8:00PM
Friday - Thursday: 6:30PM
Starring: Ice Cube, Kevin Hart,Tika Sumpter, Glen Powell
Synopsis: As his wedding day approaches, Ben heads to Miami with his soon-to-be brother-in-law James to bring down a drug dealer who's supplying the dealers of Atlanta with product
Showing:
Friday - Thursday: 1:00 pm, 5:40 pm
Friday - Thursday: 1:00pm, 4:15pm, 6:00pm, 7:45pm
Friday - Thursday: 11:00AM, 5:10PM
Friday - Thursday : 12:40PM, 2:50PM, 5:00PM, 7:10PM, 9:20PM
Friday - Thursday: 10:30AM,6:00PM,8:40PM
Starring: Kehinde Bankole, Shan George, Okey Uzoeshi, Joseph Benjamin, Bimbo Manuel, Francis Onwochei, Marion
Synopsis : “Beyond Blood” is a story of discovery. An uninflected series of scenes or moments that take us on a journey of how a womanand our central character, Moji rediscovers herself. Moji is faced with a series of situations far beyond her control.
Rather than confront the situation, she decides to “run” away in the hope that in her search for her brother, she will rediscover him and herself and have the time to think through her life and make those life changing decisions that will put her on the path of confrontation of the society in which she finds herself.
Showing:
Friday - Thursday: 12:25pm
Saturday - Thursday: 12:30PM
8. Daddy's Home
Starring: Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Linda Cardellin
Synopsis: Stepdad, Brad Whitaker, is a radio host trying to get his stepchildren to love him and call him Dad. But his plans turn upside down when the biological father, Dusty Mayron, returns.
Showing:
Friday - Thursday: 5:20 pm, 7:20 pm
Friday - Thursday: 5:50pm
Friday - Thursday: 11:00AM, 2:50PM
Friday - Thursday : 1:10PM, 3:20PM, 5:10PM, 7:00PM, 8:50PM
Saturday - Thursday: 12:30PM
9. Eden
When a US soccer team gets stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash they must face difficult choices to survive. Modern day Lord of the Flies.
Starring: Jessica Lowndes, James Remar, Ethan Peck
Fri: 10:40am, 2:05pm
Sat-Sun: 10:40am
Mon-Thur: 10:40am, 2:05pm
Fri, Sat and Wed: 5:10 pm
Sun - Tue and Thu: 1:15 pm, 5:10 pm
Saturday - Thursday: 2:40PM, 6:30PM, 8:20PM
Saturday - Thursday: 2:10PM,5:05PM
Saturday - Thursday: 11:00AM, 4:40PM
Synopsis: In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play.
Friday - Thursday: 8:55PM
Friday - Thursday: 11:45am
Starring: Uti Nwachukwu, Funny Bone, Okey Bakassi, Ime Bishop, Toyin Aimakhu and Funky Mallam
Synopsis: Love Is In The Hairtells the story of Jonny, a misguided loser who likes Doreen, a jet-setting executive, and he steals a piece of her hair to charm her into falling for him
Unfortunately, Doreen’s hair is an Indian weave, and the real owner, a middle aged Indian woman, comes after Jonny with the craze of a charmed woman in love.
Showing;
Friday - Thursday: 12:55PM
Synopsis: The last witch hunter is all that stands between humanity and the combined forces of the most horrifying witches in history.
Friday - Thursday: 3:10PM
Friday - Thursday: 12:00PM, 2:00PM, 4:10PM, 6:20PM, 8:30PM
Friday - Thursday: 10:10am, 2:45pm
Starring : Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Maika Monroe
Synopsis : Four waves of increasingly deadly alien attacks have left most of Earth decimated. Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother
Friday - Thursday: 4:40PM, 9:00PM
Friday - Thursday: 11:40AM
Friday - Thursday: 12:40PM, 2:50PM, 5:00PM, 7:10PM, 9:20PM
Fri: 11:00am, 3:10pm, 9:05pm
Sat-Sun: 11:00am, 3:10pm
Mon-Thur: 11:00am, 3:10pm, 9:05pm
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Starring: Kaley Cuoco, Anna Faris, Bella Thorne
Synopsis: Through a series of misunderstandings, Alvin, Simon and Theodore come to believe that Dave is going to propose to his new girlfriend in Miami...and dump them. They have three days to get to him and stop the proposal, saving themselves not only from losing Dave but possibly from gaining a terrible stepbrother.
Showing:
Fri and Mon - Thu: 1:00 pm, 3:00 pm
Sat and Sun: 11:00 am, 1:00 pm, 3:00 pm
Fri: 10:00am
Sat-Sun: 10:00am, 2:10pm
Mon-Thur: 10:00am
Friday - Thursday: 11:20AM
Friday - Thursday: 10:50AM
15. No Escape
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Starring: Kaley Cuoco, Anna Faris, Bella Thorne
Synopsis: Through a series of misunderstandings, Alvin, Simon and Theodore come to believe that Dave is going to propose to his new girlfriend in Miami...and dump them. They have three days to get to him and stop the proposal, saving themselves not only from losing Dave but possibly from gaining a terrible stepbrother.
Showing:
Friday - Thursday: 9:05pm
16. The Revenant
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter
Synopsis: A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820's fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.
Showing:
Friday - Thursday: 2:05 pm, 7:10 pm, 10:15 pm
Friday - Thursday: 10:10am, 3:10pm, 8:00pm
Friday - Thursday: 3:30PM,8:25PM
Friday - Thursday: 12:00PM, 3:00PM, 6:00PM, 9:00PM
Friday - Thursday: 12:40PM,5:40PM
17. Couple of Days
Genre: Romance
Starring: Lilian Esoro, Enyinna Nwigwe, Adesua Etomi, Okey Uzoeshi, Kiki Omeili
Synopsis: Three Couples decide to take a weekend getaway and head out to a friend’s home in Ibadan. However, their happy break is ruined when little gossip lead the couples to share more personal secrets than anyone is willing to reveal and makes them all ask the question? Does love really last more than a Couple of Days?
Showing:
Friday - Thursday: 3:15 pm, 5:20 pm
Friday - Thursday: 5:15pm, 7:15pm
Friday - Thursday: 2:50PM
Saturday - Thursday: 12:30PM, 4:50PM
Friday - Thursday: 10:20AM,6:55PM
Genre: Romance
Starring: Dolapo Oni, OC Ukeje, Alexx Ekubo, Liz Benson, Linda Ejiofor, Paul Adams and Adunni Ade.
Synopsis: "Diary of a Lagos Girl " follows Bim (Dolapo Oni),a materialistic, single Lagos girl in search of Mr Right. Her ideal guy must drive a Range Rover, live in a gated community, possess a cutting edge fashion sense, come from an influential family, handsome, funny, be born again, wealthy among other things. In her bid to conquer the single world, Bim (Dolapo Oni) meets Ife (Alexx Ekubo) and Timi (OC Ukeje) who teach her valuable lessons regarding the truth about love and the weightier matters of life.
Showing:
Friday - Thursday: 7:25 pm, 9:30 pm
Friday - Thursday: 4:45pm, 8:35pm
Friday - Thursday: 3:05PM
Saturday - Thursday: 12:40PM, 4:30PM
Friday - Thursday: 1:55PM,4:00PM
Genre: Romance
Starring: Dolapo Oni, OC Ukeje, Alexx Ekubo, Liz Benson, Linda Ejiofor, Paul Adams and Adunni Ade.
Synopsis: The plot revolves around a law enforcement agent trained regularly by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of the United States. On returning from one of such trainings, he is met with a case of a lady arrested for drug trafficking.With his past experience with drugs and how it led his brother to an untimely death, he is motivated to hunt and bring to justice all persons involved in the importation/exportation and distribution of illegal drugs and to prevent the recurrence of what happened to his brother from happening to more people especially the youth.
Showing:
Friday - Thursday: 6:35PM
Saturday - Thursday: 2:10PM
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