Tribunal, American Made… 10 movies you should see this weekend

Some movies leave one with a feeling of glee while some poorly executed flicks make one want to puke, punch someone and throw a tantrum – all at once.

To help you avoid such a situation that’d leave you fuming out of the cinema in utter disgust, TheCable Lifestyle recommends the following movies.

Synopsis: After a visit to a famous Pastor, they somehow wake up in each other’s bodies. Is it a miracle or a curse? Who knows? Unable to switch back, they are forced to masquerade as each other until a solution can be found. They couldn’t save their marriage as themselves, can they save it as each other?

Starring: Omoni Oboli, Ramsey Nouah, Seyi Law

Run time: 100 mins

Synopsis: A pilot lands work for the CIA and as a drug runner in the south during the 1980s.

Starring: Tom Cruise, Sarah Wright, Domhnall Gleeson

Run time: 115 mins

Synopsis: Jimi Disu, a washed-up lawyer now in his 50s, who helped co-establish a leading law firm in Lagos many years ago.
He is approached by a young, enthusiastic, law school graduate to help defend her friend who has been unfairly fired because he’s a person with albinism. This gives Jimi a chance to battle his old law firm.

Starring: Bimbo Manuel, Nobert Young, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde

Run time: 100 mins

Synopsis: The world’s top bodyguard gets a new client, a hit man who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial on time.

Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman

Run time: 118 mins

Synopsis: Chuks (aka Terminator) is an ardent player with the ladies. He enjoys the attention of women, including girlfriends from the past. When challenged by his friends to see if he can prove the universality of that theory with three ex-girlfriends from his school days within 21 days, he accepts it.

Starring: Omoni Oboli, Halima Abubakar, Gabriel Afolayan, Toyin Aimakhu-Johnson

Run time: 112 mins

Synopsis: A headhunter whose life revolves around closing deals in a a survival-of-the-fittest boiler room, battles his top rival for control of their job placement company – his dream of owning the company clashing with the needs of his family.

Starring: Alison Brie, Gerard Butler, Willem Dafoe

Run time: 108 mins

Synopsis: Gene, a multi-expressional emoji, sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji.

Starring: T.J. Miller, James Corden, Anna Faris

Run time: 86 mins

Synopsis: A man returns from prison, hoping to pick up the pieces of his life with his wife and business. Things are not as he hopes when he begins to suspect his wife of infidelity and with the business at stake,He calls in an old friend who is a private investigator for help. A love triangle ensue with everyone fighting for love and for money.

Starring: Adesua Etomi, Chris Attoh

Run time: 116 mins

Synopsis: Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker’s possessed creation, Annabelle.

Starring: Stephanie Sigman, Alicia Vela-Bailey, Miranda Otto

Run time: 118 mins

Synopsis: A ghost is scared to go to heaven because he doesn’t have a soulmate and so convinces God to give him three days to fall in love. He is paired with the cantankerous firecracker – Ijeoma – who will do anything to save her father’s house in Banana Island from the bank coming to reclaim it in three days. The two of them must first survive each other, then learn to work together, and eventually fall in love, to see their destinies unfold.

Starring: Chioma ‘Chigul‘ Omeruah, Patrick Diabuah, Adetomiwa Edun, Saidi Balogun, Ali Nuhu, Uche Jombo, Bimbo Manuel, Akah Nnani, Damilola Adegbite, Kemi Lala Akindoju, Dorcas Sola Fapson, DJ Obi

Run time: 90 mins