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: Animation

Starring: Rebecca Husain, Patrica Drake, Britt Irvin

Synopsis: a modern-day princess is kissed by a magical butterfly and discovers she has super powers. Will she join forces with her “super” friends and rid the kingdom of its enemy?

Showing:

Ozone Cinemas

Sat-Sun: 11:05am

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 10.50AM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 12:40PM, 2:10PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday-Thursday : 11:20AM, 2:50PM

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 : 12:50PM, 2:40PM, 7:00PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 12:10PM, 2:10PM, 4:10PM, 6:10PM, 8:10PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 12.30PM, 2.30PM, 4.30PM, 6.30PM, 8.30PM

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 3:25pm, 7:15pm

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 : 11:05AM, 1:30PM, 3:55PM, 6:40PM, 9:00PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 2.45PM, 5.25PM, 8.05PM, 9.00PM, 10.45PM

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 4:15pm, 6:35pm

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 12:50PM, 3:20PM, 5:50PM, 8:20PM

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 11:30AM, 1:55PM,4:25PM, 6:45PM, 9:10PM (Except Sunday)

Sunday : 1:55PM,4:25PM, 6:45PM, 9:10PM

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: 4:20pm, 6:20pm, 8:55pm

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 10:50AM, 6:35PM, 8:35PM

Sunday : 6:35PM, 8:35PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday: 12:50PM, 4:45PM, 6:45PM, 8:45PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 3.10PM, 6.50PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

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

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 : 5:05PM, 9:15PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday :12.00PM, 4.30PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 5:25PM, 7:20PM, 9:20PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 12.40PM, 2:50PM, 5:00PM, 7:10PM, 9:20PM

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 11:55am

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

Peep the trailer

Showing:

Ozone Cinemas

Fri-Tues: 10:10am

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 : 6:00PM, 8:00PM

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

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

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

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 12.30PM, 5.20PM

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 2:40PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 4:40PM, 6:25PM

Ozone Cinemas

Fri-Thur: 1:05pm

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 : 12:20PM, 2:30PM, 4:40PM, 6:50PM, 8:50PM

Silverbird CInemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 12:30PM, 7:10PM,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: 10:20am

Monday-Thursday: 10:20am

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 3:40PM

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

Friday, Monday -Thursday : 10:00am

12:

Genre: Comedy

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

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:

SIlverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 2:00PM, 4:05PM, 6:20PM, 8:30PM

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 5:05pm

13.Fifty Shades of Grey

Genre: Drama / Romance

Starring: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Jennifer Ehle

Synopsis:Literature student Anastasia Steele's life changes forever when she meets handsome, yet tormented, billionaire Christian Grey.

Showing

Ozone Cinemas

Friday -Thursday : 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 : 1:00PM, 4:25PM, 6:30PM

Ozone Cinemas

Fri-Thur: 12:30pm

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 10:45AM, 12:45PM, 4:45PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 12:10PM, 2:00PM, 3:50PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 11.30AM, 12.35PM, 2.20PM

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 - Thursday : 1.40PM, 4.20PM, 7.00PM, 8.00PM, 9.40PM, 10.40PM

Silverbird Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 11:00AM, 1:30PM, 4:00PM, 6:30PM, 9:00PM

Sunday : 1:30PM, 4:00PM, 6:30PM, 9:00PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 11:20AM, 1:40PM, 4:10PM, 6:40PM, 9:10PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

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

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 11:00am, 1:20pm, 3:40pm, 6:05pm, 8:25pm

Genre: Nollywood

Synopsis - The Antique is a fictional story, inspired by events of the Southern Nigeria people in the 19th Century. With a technique that combines theatrical aesthetics and culturally derived meanings, cultivated for utilitarian purposes, this film highlights on the characters that fought to defend its rich culture and help build it’s kingdom.

Starring -

Showing

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday :11:00am, 2:15pm

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 2:00PM, 2:10PM, 4:20PM, 6:30PM, 9:00PM

Silverbird Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 12:30PM, 2:25PM

SIlverbird Cinema Ikeja : 2:35PM

Genre: Comedy | Drama

Synopsis - Affluent and aimless, Conrad Valmont lives a life of leisure in his parent's prestigious Manhattan Hotel. In the span of one week, he finds himself evicted, disinherited, and... in love.

Starring - Jason Bateman, Olivia Wilde, Billy Crudup

Showing

Silverbird Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 11:30AM, 1:10PM, 2:55PM

Genre: Nollywood

Synopsis - The Department is about Tolu Okoye, who worked in a secret criminal department of a respected Nigerian conglomerate until she got married. Now she’s a bored housewife and The Department wants her back for one last job. She accepts against the wishes of her husband who decides to sabotage The Department to save their marriage

Starring - Majid Michel, O.C.Ukeje, Osas Ighodaro, Desmond Elliot

Showing

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

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

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 Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday :4:30PM

Ozone Cinemas

Fri - Thur: 1:55pm, 8:10pm

Silverbird Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 1:20PM, 3:50PM, 6:20PM, 8:50PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : : 1:30PM, 8:25PM

Genre: Drama

Synopsis - In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Megan panics when her boyfriend proposes, then, taking an opportunity to escape for a week, hides out in the home of her new friend, 16-year-old Annika, who lives with her world-weary single dad.

Starring - Keira Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sam Rockwell

Showing

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

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