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.
What Happened at St. James
Running time: 2hr 15mins
Starring: Deyemi Okanlawon, Femi Branch, Bolaji Ogunmola
Synopsis: Three young men must face the consequences of the teenage atrocities they committed while in secondary school. Their notorious actions catch up with them, how will they dodge them?
King Richard
Running time: 2hrs 18mins
Starring: Will Smith, Aunjaune Ellis, Noah Bean
Synopsis: The story of how Serena and Venus Williams became two of the best tennis players of all time.
African Messiah
Running time: 1hr 32mins
Starring: Speed Darlington, Charles Okpocha, Lasisi Elenu
Synopsis: A young Nigerian with a vibrant social media presence seeks to become the country’s next president and the pre-existing blocks of his path will see him frustrated and agitated.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Running time: 2hrs 4mins
Starring: Annie Potts, Bill Murray, Earnie Hudson
Synopsis: When a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.
Detour
Running time: 1hr 53mins
Starring: Jemima Osunde, Kanayo Kanayo, Olumide Oworo
Synopsis: Providence will bring a brown-nosed journalist and a naive corps member together to uncover and expose a massive conspiracy.
Eternals
Running time: 2hr 37mins
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Barry Keoghan, Gil Birmingham, Salma Hayek
Synopsis: Following the disappearance of half of the population of the entire universe, the Eternals, ancient aliens who have been living on earth in secret for thousands of years, are forced out of the shadows to reunite against mankind’s most ancient enemy, the Deviants.
Last Night in Soho
Running time: 1hr 56mins
Starring: Tomasin McKenzie, Amy Andrea, Diana Rigg
Synopsis: An aspiring fashion designer is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer. But the glamour is not all it appears to be and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something darker.
Red Notice
Time running: 1hr 55mins
Starring: Dwayne Johnson (The Rock), Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot.
Synopsis: It follows the unlikely partnership of an FBI profiler and the world’s greatest art thief to apprehend the world’s most wanted art thief.
Progressive Tailors Club
Time running: 1hr 50mins
Starring: Femi Adebayo, Adedimeji Lateef, Lizzy Jay, Rachel Oniga
Synopsis: Members of the Progressive Tailor’s Club are headed for the election of a new leader. However, when a longstanding, trusted executive is eliminated for corruption, it comes down to a choice between the old, the new, and the ridiculous.
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Time running: 2hrs
Starring: Tom Hardy, Alfredo Tavares, Ed Kear
Synopsis: A journalist possessed with an alien symbiotic being must learn to co-exist with his superpower to save his city from another deranged serial killer who also becomes host to an alien symbiote.
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