Orisa, Hotel Labamba… 10 movies you should see this weekend

Nollywood’s ‘Orisa’ and ‘Hotel Labamba’ are some movies TheCable recommends for you to watch in the cinema or on streamers like Netflix this weekend.

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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.

Hotel Labamba

Running time: 1hr 35mins

Starring: Bimbo Ademoye, Bolaji Ogunmola, Lateef Adedimeji

Synopsis: A guest dies in a prestigious hotel, and everyone — other lodgers and staff — are suspects.

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.

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.

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.

Big Love

Running time: 1hr 40mins

Starring: Bimbo Ademoye, Jaiye Kuti, Shaffy Bello

Synopsis: The big love between two passionate graduate trainees must survive a huge setback to survive. One secret that could destroy everything. Is their love big enough to cover a lie?

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse

Running time: 2hrs 20mins

Starring: Andy Samberg, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya

Synopsis: Miles Morales catapults across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. When the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles must redefine what it means to be a hero.