Friday, 27 September 2013

Must-See Movies for the Weekend


it’s the start of another weekend and has become the tradition for us good folks at Pulse, we 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. 

1. Runner Runner


Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Starring: Ben Affleck, Justin Timberlake, Gemma Arterton
Synopsis: When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks cheated him, a sly offshore entrepreneur.
Peep the trailer:

Showing:
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday and Saturday: 10.40AM, 3.00PM, 7.20PM, 9.25PM, 11.30PM
Sunday: 10.40AM, 3.00PM, 7.20PM, 9.25PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Victoria Island)
Friday: 2:10PM,6:20PM, 8:20PM, 10:10PM
Saturday and Sunday:  2:10PM,6:20PM, 8:20PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Ikeja)
Friday – Sunday: 11:00AM, 12:50PM, 4:30PM
Ozone Cinemas
11:55am, 1:45pm, 3:35pm, 5:15pm, 7:05pm, 8:55pm
The Filmhouse Cinemas, Surulere
Friday – Sunday: 10:40PM, 2:50PM, 6:50PM, 8:40PM

2. The Lone Ranger

Genre: Action | Adventure | Western
Starring: Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, William Fichtner
Synopsis: Native American warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice.
Peep the trailer:

Showing: 
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday – Sunday: 2.15PM, 7.55PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Victoria Island)
Friday – Sunday: 1:20PM, 6:00PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Ikeja)
Friday and Saturday: 12:55PM, 5:30PM,10:05PM
Sunday: 12:55PM. 5:30PM
Ozone Cinemas
3:00pm, 5:45pm
The Film House, Surulere
Friday – Sunday: 3:25PM, 6:05PM, 8:45PM

3. The Reluctant Fundamentalist

 Genre: Thriller
Starring: Riz Ahmed, Liev Schreiber, Kiefer Sutherland
Synopsis: While attending a party at James Franco’s house, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel and many other celebrities are faced with the apocalypse.
Peep the trailer:

Showing:
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday – Sunday: 5:15PM
Ozone Cinemas
2:10pm, 6:45pm

4. The Big Wedding
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Genre: Comedy
Starring: Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Katherine Heigl
Synopsis: A long-divorced couple fakes being married as their family unites for a wedding.
Peep the trailer

Showing:
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday – Sunday: 2.50PM, 7.00PM, 8.55PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Victoria Island)
Friday – Sunday: 4:00PM, 8:30PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Ikeja)
Friday – Sunday: 3:45PM,8:15PM
Ozone Cinemas
10:20am, 6:05pm
The Filmhouse, Surulere
Friday – Sunday: 12:50pm, 4:45pm

5. The Company You Keep

Genre: Drama | Thriller
Starring: Robert Redford, Brit Marling, Stanley Tucci
Synopsis: A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who has discovered his identity.
Peep the trailer:

Showing:
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday – Sunday: 12.40PM, 5.25PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Victoria Island)
Friday – Sunday: 11:50PM, 4:05PM,
Silverbird Cinemas (Ikeja)

Friday – Sunday: 7:40PM

6. Keeping My Man

Genre: Drama
Starring: Ramsey Nouah, Rukky Sanda, Ini Edo
Synopsis: Keeping My Man follows the journey of three couples, doing whatever they can, to keep sparks in their marriage. Zion (Rukky Sanda) and Tokunbo (Ramsey Nouah) always look perfect to their friend.
Peep the trailer:

Showing:
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday – Sunday: 11.00AM, 4.15PM, 6.55PM, 9.35PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Victoria Island)
Friday – Sunday: 11:50AM, 2:05PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Ikeja)
Friday – Sunday: 3:35PM
Ozone Cinemas
Friday: 10:05am
Saturday & Sunday: 8pm
The Filmhouse, Surulere
Friday – Sunday:  1:40PM

7. This Is The End

Genre: Comedy| Fantasy
Starring: James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen
Synopsis: While attending a party at James Franco’s house, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel and many other celebrities are faced with the apocalypse.
Peep the trailer

Showing:
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas 
Friday & Saturday:10.55PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Victoria Island)
Friday: 8:40PM
Saturday & Sunday: 6:25PM, 8:40PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Ikeja City Mall)
Friday to Sunday : 11:00AM, 5:30PM
Ozone Cinemas
12:05pm, 2:00pm
The Film House Cinemas, Surulere
Friday to Sunday: 12:45PM, 4:40PM

8. Monsters University

Genre: Animation
Starring: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi
Synopsis: Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan are an inseparable pair, but that wasn’t always the case. From the moment these two mismatched monsters met they couldn’t stand each other. “Monsters University” unlocks the door to how Mike and Sulley overcame their differences and became the best of friends.
Peep the trailer

Showing:
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday – Sunday: 10.05AM, 12.10PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Ikeja)
Friday to Sunday: 11:35AM, 4:00PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Victoria Island)
Friday to Sunday: 11:20AM, 4:00PM
Ozone Cinemas
Friday: 11:55am
Saturday & Sunday: 10AM
The Film House Cinemas, Surulere
Friday to Sunday: 10:00AM, 11:50AM

9. Now You See Me

Genre: Crime|Mystery|Thriller
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Common, Mark Ruffalo
Synopsis: An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.
Peep the trailer

Showing:
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday – Sunday: 2.50PM, 5.10PM, 7.30PM, 9.50PM
Ozone Cinemas
10:50am, 4:35pm
The Film House, Surulere
Friday – Sunday: 2:35PM, 6:30PM, 8:50PM

10. Peeples

Genre: Comedy|Romance
Starring: Craig Robinson, Kerry Washington, David Alan Grier
Synopsis: Sparks fly when Wade Walker crashes the Peeples annual reunion in the Hamptons to ask for their precious daughter Grace‘s hand in marriage.
Peep the trailer

Showing:
Silverbird Cinemas (Ikeja City Mall)
Friday to Sunday: 2:10PM
Ozone Cinemas
Friday to Sunday: 10:05am
The Film House, Surulere
Friday to Sunday: 10:40AM

11. Scary Movie 5

Genre: Comedy
Starring: Simon Rex, Ashley Tisdale, Charlie Sheen
Synopsis: A couple begin to experience some unusual activity after bringing their lost nieces and nephew home. With the help of home-surveillance cameras, they learn they’re being stalked by a nefarious demon.
Peep the trailer

Showing:
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday to Sunday: 9.55PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Victoria Island)
Friday to Sunday: 12:00PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Ikeja City Mall)
Friday to Sunday: 2:40PM

12. Felix

Genre: Drama
Starring: Hiayani Jr Mabasa; Linda Sokhulu; Dame Janet Suzman
Synopsis: 14 year-old Felix Xaba dreams of becoming a saxophonist like his late father, but his mother, Lindiwe thinks jazz is the devil’s music.

Peep the trailer:

Showing:
Silverbird Cinemas (Victoria Island)
Friday – Sunday: 12:00PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Ikeja)
Friday – Sunday: 12:00PM

13. Grown Ups

Genre: Comedy| Drama
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock
Synopsis: After moving his family back to his hometown to be with his friends and their kids, Lenny finds out that between old bullies, new bullies, schizo bus drivers, drunk cops on skis, and 400 costumed party crashers sometimes crazy follows you.
Peep the trailer

Showing:
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday to Sunday: 12.45PM, 5.05PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Victoria Island)
Friday to Sunday: 1:50PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Ikeja)
Friday to Sunday: 10:40AM


14. Murder In Prime Suits
Genre: Drama
Starring: Joseph Benjamin,Keira Hewatch, Chelsea Eze
Synopsis: “Murder at Prime Suites” lays emphasis on betrayal, murder, lies, greed and lust. Special Agents of the Police Investigation Department (PID) – Special Agent Ted (Joseph Benjamin) and Agent Hauwa (Keira Hewatch) battle to unravel the mysteries behind the murder of a young lady, Florence Ngwu (Chelsea Eze), in an upscale hotel.
Peep the trailer
Showing
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday to Sunday: 1.40PM

15. We’re The Millers

Genre: Comedy|Crime
Starring: Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Emma Roberts
Synopsis: David Burke is a small-time pot dealer whose clientele includes chefs and soccer moms, but no kids; after all, he has his scruples. So what could go wrong? Plenty. Preferring to keep a low profile for obvious reasons, he learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished when he tries to help out some local teens and winds up getting jumped by a trio of gutter punks. Stealing his stash and his cash, they leave him in major debt to his supplier
Peep the trailer
Showing
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday & Saturday: 3.10PM, 11.15PM
Sunday: 3.10PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Victoria Island)
Friday – Sunday : 4:10PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Ikeja)
Friday – Sunday: 4:05PM, 6:15PM

16. 2 Guns

Genre: Action|Comedy|Crime
Starring: Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton
Synopsis: A DEA agent and a Naval Intelligence officer find themselves on the run after a botched attempt to infiltrate a drug cartel. While fleeing, they learn the secret of their shaky alliance. Neither knew that the other was an undercover agent.
Peep the trailer
Showing
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday – Sunday: 10.20AM, 12.35PM, 4.45PM, 7.55PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Victoria Island)
Friday: 6:00PM, 8:10PM, 10:10PM
Sunday: 6:00PM, 8:10PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Ikeja) 
Friday & Saturday: 6:30PM, 8:40PM,10:00PM
Sunday: 6:30PM, 8:40PM
Ozone Cinemas
1:00pm, 8:30pm
The Film House, Surulere
Friday to Sunday:  10:40AM

17. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Genre: Adventure | Family| Fantasy
Starring: Logan Lerman, Alexander Daddario, Brandon T.Jackson
Synopsis: In order to restore their dying safe haven, the son of Poseidon and his friends embark on a quest to the Sea of Monsters to find the mythical Golden Fleece while trying to stop an ancient evil from rising.
Peep the trailer

Showing
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday – Sunday:10.30AM, 12.40PM
18. Elysium
Genre: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
Starring: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley
Synopsis: Set in the year 2154, where the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth, a man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.
Peep the trailer

Showing:
Silverbird Cinemas (Victoria Island)
Friday – Sunday: 3:40PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Ikeja)
Friday – Sunday: 8:40PM
19. The Smurfs 2
Genre: Animation
Starring: Hanz Azaria, Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma mays
Synopsis: The Smurfs team up with their human friends to rescue Smurfette, who has been kidnapped by Gargamel since she knows a secret spell that can turn the evil sorcerer’s newest creation- creatures called the Naughties- into real Smurfs.
Peep the trailer

Showing
Genesis Deluxe Cinema
Friday – Sunday: 10:25AM
Silverbird Cinemas(Victoria Island)
Friday – Sunday: 1:35PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Ikeja)
Friday – Sunday: 1:55PM

20. The Conjuring
Genre: Horror| Thriller
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ron Livingston
Synopsis: Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse.
Peep the trailer

Showing
Silverbird Cinemas (Victoria Island)
Friday to Sunday: 8:45PM
Silverbird Cinemas (Ikeja)
Friday to Sunday: 1:15PM
Ozone Cinemas
3:55pm, 9:10pm


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