Oppenheimer, Barbie among 10 must-see movies this weekend

Hollywood’s ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ are some movies TheCable recommends for you to watch in the cinema or on streamers like Netflix this weekend.

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Barbie

Running time: 1hr 54 mins

Starring: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, John Cena

Synopsis: To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis.

Oppenheimer

Running time: 3hrs

Starring: Cillian Murphy, Rami Malek, Robert Downey Jr

Synopsis: The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

Orisa

Running time: 1hr 49mins

Starring: Odunlade Adekola, Femi Adebayo, Shaffy Bello

Synopsis: A king becomes rogue and loses respect for the gods and the people. Insanity becomes his fate. This predicament befalls him at a time when a terrorist, who he once struck a deal with, returns to forcefully take over the kingdom.

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning

Running: 2hrs 43mins

Starring: Simon Pegg, Tom Cruise, Vanessa Kirby, Ving Rhames

Synopsis: Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.

Insidious: The Red Door

Running: 1hr 47mins

Starring: Rose Byrne, Sinclair Daniel, Ty Simpkins

Synopsis: The Lamberts 10 years after the last instalment, as Dalton begins college.

Love, Lust & Other Things

Running time: 1hr 57mins

Starring: Ramsey Noah, Kunle Remi, Osas Ighodalo

Synopsis: A recently divorced woman goes on a journey of self-discovery in order to find out what she really wants between love, sex, and money. She leaves her marriage of five years to find herself. Everything.

Indiana Jones 5

Running time: 2 hours 22mins

Starring: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Thomas Kretschmann

Synopsis: The legendary Indiana Jones returns in a new era. As he approaches retirement, Indy wrestles with fitting into a world that seems to have outgrown him. But as the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival, he must don his hat and pick up his whip once more to make sure an ancient and powerful artefact doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.

No Hard Feelings

Starring: Hasan Minhaj, Jennifer Lawrence, Laura Benanti

Synopsis: A babysitter who is on the verge of losing her home finds an intriguing job listing: helicopter parents looking for someone to bring their introverted 19-year-old son out of his shell before college. She has one summer to make him a man or die trying.

The Other One

Running time: 1hr 41mins

Starring: Bimbo Manuel, Dan Chris, Eric Obinna

Synopsis: A kidnapped woman tries to liberate herself by tricking her kidnapper into thinking that she cares about him, but what starts as a deliberate attempt at deception soon devolves into something dark and twisted.

The Flash

Running time: 2hrs 24mins

Starring: Ben Affleck, Ezra Miller, Antje Traue

Synopsis: Barry Allen uses his super speed to change the past, but his attempt to save his family creates a world without superheroes, forcing him to race for his life in order to save the future.