Some movies leave one feeling gleeful. Poorly executed flicks, on the other hand, make cinema-goers think of a million better ways they could have spent their time.
TheCable Lifestyle recommends the following movies for you to watch in the cinema or on Netflix this weekend.
De Wedding Gift
Running time: 1hr 30mins
Starring: Iretiola Doyle, Shaffi Bello, Blossom Chukwujekwe
Synopsis: A newlywed couple unwraps a slumbering secret among the boxes of gifts they received. The secret threatens to rupture their newly tied nuptial and sweep out nasty past stories.
The Ghost and the Tout too
Running time: 1hr 50mins
Starring: Toyin Abraham, Anita Joseph, Mercy Johnson
Synopsis: A girl, who believes her ability to see ghosts is a curse, must make a difficult decision to get rid of her gift or save a life with it.
Malignant
Running time: 1hr 51mins
Starring: Anabelle Wallis, George Young
Synopsis: A woman is paralysed by eerie visions of horrible murders, and she must battle with the discovery that these dreams are, indeed, realities.
Candyman
Running time: 1hr 31mins
Starring: Brian King, Colman Domingo, Miriam Moss
Synopsis: A chanced meeting exposes an artist to an intricate secret and the creative tries to make sense of it on his canvas. This opens him to a door of insanity and violence.
Bad Comments
Running time: 2hrs 10mins
Starring: Jim Iyke, Chinwetela Agu, Patience Ozokwor
Synopsis: A journey through celebrity life and how the filth thrown by social media trolls can bury their careers to the neck.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings
Running time: 2hrs 12mins
Starring: Awkwafina, Alexandre Chen, Benedict Wong
Synopsis: A skilled master in the art of unarmed Kung Fu must reconsider his life as he unwittingly gets himself involved with a vicious, bloodletting criminal organisation.
The Forever Purge
Running time: 1hr 43mins
Starring: Alejandro Edda, Cassidy Freeman, Will Patton
Synopsis: A wealthy family must band together to survive the annual purge as the world goes berserk and a sect of lawless marauders never stops hunting them.
Loving Rona
Running time: 1hr 50mins
Starring: Jeff Nweke, Jide Bolarinwa, Fiona Garba
Synopsis: A wealthy woman falls inexplicably in love with her cook, off a ruse that was coined to help the woman get back her estranged boyfriend.
The Protege
Running time: 1hr 49mins
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Electra Baker, Maggie Q
Synopsis: An orphan adopted by a wizened assassin was trained into the world’s most skilled contract killer. But when an even deadly band of assassins killed her adopted father and her trainer, she vows to revenge.
Bellbottom
Running time: 2hrs 10mins
Starring: Akshay Kumar, Denzil Smith, Huma Qureishi
Synopsis: A star undercover agent plans to neutralise the country’s seventh plane hijacking incident in five years and rescue 210 hostages. His success stands precariously on his bravery and that of his team.
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