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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 the Boxtrolls to the Hobbit, down to the record breaking '30 Days in Atlanta' and many more. Check full list below.

It's the start of another week 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!

Genre: Adventure | Fantasy

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Starring: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage

Synopsis: Bilbo and Company are forced to be embraced in a war against an armed flock of combatants and the terrifying Smaug from acquiring a kingdom of treasure and obliterating all of Middle-Earth.

Showing:

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday - 2:35pm, 5:00pm

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Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 2;35PM,8:00PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 1.15PM, 7.05PM, 10.00PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

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Friday - Thursday : 1.10PM, 3.50PM, 6.30PM, 9.10PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Wednesday & Thursday : 10:30AM, 1:15PM, 4:00PM, 6:40PM, 9:20PM

Genre: Action/Adventure

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Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson

Synopsis: Katniss Everdeen is in District 13 after she shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta and a nation moved by her courage.

Showing:

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday & Saturday _  2:10PM,10:50PM

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Sunday - Thursday - 2:10PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday - 1.10PM, 6.05PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday - 11:20AM, 1:40PM, 4:00PM

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3. Horrible Bosses

Genre: Comedy

Starring:  Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day

Synopsis: Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a harebrained and misguided kidnapping scheme.

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Showing:

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 11:00AM, 3:10PM, 5:15PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 11.00AM, 3.00PM

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Ozone Cinemas

Fri-Tues: 12:15pm

4. The

Genre: Animation/Adventure/Comedy

Starring:Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris, Nick Frost

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Synopsis:  A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator. Based on the children's novel 'Here Be Monsters' by Alan Snow.

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Showing:

Ozone Cinemas

Fri-Tues: 10:00am

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Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 10.30AM

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 10:30AM, 3:00PM (Except Saturday, Sunday)

Saturday : 10:30AM, 12:45PM, 3:00PM, 5:10PM, 7:20PM, 9:45PM

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Sunday: 3:00PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 10:50AM, 12:40PM, 2:30PM

5. The Prince

Genre: Action/Adventure

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Starring:  Jason Patric, Bruce Willis, John Cusack

Synopsis: When his daughter is kidnapped, a retired assassin is drawn back into the life he gave up. To rescue her, he must confront his former rival.

Showing:

Ozone Cinemas

Fri-Tues: 9:25pm

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6.  Penguins Of Madagascar

Genre: Action/ Adventure

Starring: 

Synopsis: Super spy teams aren't born...they're hatched. Discover the secrets of the greatest and most hilarious covert birds in the global espionage biz: Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private

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Showing:

Ozone Cinemas

Fri-Tues: 10:50am

Genesis Deluxe

12.55PM, 3.00PM, 5.05PM

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7.  Head Gone

Genre: Drama

Starring : Wale Ojo, Yomi Obileye, Akpororo, Ali Baba, Basket mouth, 2face idibia.

Synopsis: The movie, which is a comedy, is centred on a busload of patients being conveyed to a mental institution, whose paths cross with unsuspecting people along the way and culminates in a string of hilariously unfortunate events.

Showing:

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Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 10.50AM, 3.45PM

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday – Thursday  : 2:40PM

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Genre: Drama

Synopsis - Story is centered on a young woman ‘Tolu’ {Funke Akindele} who suffers several heartbreak and disappointment, at the time she thought she found true love again..History begins to repeat itself. The story is also about betrayal and the place of posterity in life..

Starring - Funke Akindele, Odun Adekola, Fausat Balogun, Ade Aderenle

Showing

Ozone Cinemas

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Fri -Tues: 7:35pm

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday – Thursday : 10:30AM, 12:30PM (Except Sunday)

Sunday : 12:30PM

9. Night at the Museum : Secret of the Tomb

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Genre: Comedy / Sequel

Synopsis - Larry spans the globe, uniting favorite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever.

Starring - Dan Stevens, Robin Williams, Rebel Wilson

Showing

Ozone Cinemas

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Fri-Tues: 11:20am, 1:20pm, 2:10pm, 6:35pm

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 10:30AM, 12:25PM,4:55PM ( except Sunday)

Sunday : 12:25PM,4:55PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

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Friday - Saturday : 11:20AM, 1:15PM, 5:10PM, 7:05PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday : 13:35 15:40 19:10PM

Saturday - Tuesday : 11.10AM, 1.35PM, 3.40PM

Wednesday - Thursday : 11.10AM, 1.35PM, 3.40PM, 6.15PM

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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:

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Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 2:20PM, 4:35PM,6:45PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 4:20PM, 6:35PM, 8:50PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

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Friday - Thursday : 2.30PM, 6.40PM, 8.55PM

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : Fri-Tues: 11:50am, 2:00pm, 4:15pm

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday, Sunday & Monday : 11.00AM, 5.45PM, 8.20PM

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Saturday , Tuesday - Thursday : 11.00AM, 5.45PM

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

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Showing:

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 11.00AM

Ozone Cinemas

Fri-Tues: 12:35pm

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Genre: Nollywood

Starring:Mike Omoregbe, Rudolph Walker, Chucky Venn

Synopsis: Invasion 1897 is an epic film based on the invasion of the Benin Kingdom by the British Empire in 1897 and looting the priceless ancient artifacts of the Benin kingdom, including the famous commemorative head and pendant of ivory mask representing Queen Idia (from court of Benin, 16th century) who was the mother of Esigie, the Oba of Benin who ruled from 1504 to 1550.

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Showing:

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 10:40AM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja:

Friday - Thursday : 12.20PM, 4.40PM

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Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 11:10AM, 3:05PM

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Genre: Comedy

Starring: Ayo Makun, Vivica A. Fox, Lynn Whitfield, Richard Mofe Damijo, Desmond Elliot, Ramsey Noah

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Synopsis: Akpos In Atlanta is an adventurous love story – spiced with lots of action and hilarious moments. This a-laugh-a-minute story has been fully researched and well written. It paints, in beautiful colours, the hugely popular (and social media trending) Akpos character which was created from the AYShow’s Who Wants To Be A Billionaire hilarious skits.

Showing:

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday –Thursday : 10.30AM, 12.50PM, 3.10PM, 7.45PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

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Friday - Thursday : 12.25PM

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 6:50PM,8:40PM

SIlverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 1:50PM, 6:15PM, 8:30PM

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Genre: Romance

Synopsis - When an enraged wife brutally murders her own sister and her beloved husband for having an affair, she must face the repercussion of her actions with the fruit of that affair.

Starring - Yvonne Nelson, Uche Jombo, Joke Sylva, Benjamin Joseph

Showing

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

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Friday - Thursday : 11:00AM,4:30PM

Genre:

Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, Oscar Isaac

Synopsis: A thriller centered on a con artist, his wife, and a stranger who flees Athens after one of them is caught up in the death of a private detective.

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Showing

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 2:40PM, 6:40PM, 8:40PM

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday – Thursday : 12:15PM,4:50PM

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Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday – Thursday : 10.50AM, 8.40PM

16 :

Genre: Drama

Starring: Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Ben Kingsley

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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:

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 11.00AM, 2.00PM, 5.00PM, 8.00PM, 11.00PM (Except Sunday - Tuesday)

Sunday -Tuesday - 11.00AM, 2.00PM, 5.00PM, 8.00PM

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Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Wednesday - Thursday : 6:20PM, 9:10PM

SIlverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday, Saturday and Thursday : 2:35PM,6:10PM,9:10PM,10:40PM

Sunday, Mionday - Wednesday : 2:35PM,6:10PM,9:10PM

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Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Wednesday & Thursday : 6.30PM

Ozone Cinemas

Fri-Tues: 3:10pm, 5:50pm, 8:30pm

16 : Champagne

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Genre: Drama

Starring: Majid Michel, Alexx Ekubo,ana Adelana, Mbong Amata, Susan Peters, Padita Agu

Synopsis: The film is a spellbinding romantic thriller about a couple in an open marriage whose habit of dating unsuspecting people for money and perks, takes an unexpected and decidedly dangerous turn.

Showing:

Ozone Cinemas

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Fri-Tues: 8:30pm

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 12:40PM,9:00PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 11.15AM, 4.45PM

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Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 11:35PM, 3:15PM, 7:00PM

Genre: Comedy | Family | Fantasy

Synopsis - A witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree.

Starring - Anna Kendrick, Meryl Streep, Chris Pine, Johnny Depp

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Showing

Genesis Deluxe

Wednesday - Thursday : 1.10PM, 6.05PM

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