Alter Ego, Dunkirk… 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: A woman will stop at nothing to see sex offenders and molesters punished! If she cannot get the courts to imprison them she will find other ways to punish them.

Starring: Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, Wale Ojo, Gregory Ojefua

Run time: 106 mins

Synopsis: A high-flying fashion designer meets a notorious area boy when her car breaks down in his gang’s territory. At first their meeting seems like a blessing but it quickly turns into something else when he sets up home outside her shop.

Starring: Bolanle Ninolowo, Mary Remmy Njoku, Bisola Aiyeola (Big Brother Naija)

Run time: 112 mins

Synopsis: Tobi Balogun a 35 year old, naturalist doctor, and son to Rtd. police sergeant, Abu Balogun, is in love, and ready to marry Nancy Okezie 30, daughter of Donald Okezie, an old-school lawyer. However, trouble starts after they secretly get engaged, and introduce each other to their families.

Starring: Dele Odule, Toyin Abraham, Ngozi Nwosu, Charles Inoje, Chris Attoh and Binta Ayo Mogaji

Run time: 90 mins

Synopsis: Janet (Moradeke Adegboyega), a comfortable family woman who loves to give and help the needy falls victim of her own goodwill. A twist of circumstance lands her in the company of Morufu (Odunlade), Mama Oyinye (Ada Ameh) and Johnny (Tony Akposheri). The outcome would cause ripples of laughter.

Starring: Odunlade Adekola, Ada Ameh, Tony Akposheri, Moradeke Adegboyega, Seun Akindele, Ayo Mogaji

Run time: 91 mins

Synopsis: Six corpers get posted to a remote village to find an ancient evil has bigger plans for all of them… will they make it out of the village to live to tell the tale of an Ajuwaya?

Starring: Kemi Lala Akindoju, Lanre Hassan, Rahama Sadau, Timini Egbuson

Run time: 98 mins

Synopsis: Bianca is a campus beauty queen who Akpos has sacrificed his livelihood to make successful. After successfully winning a national beauty pageant, Bianca, ever loyal to Akpos, is now an international celebrity rolling with society’s ‘high and mighty’. Otunba who is also invested in Bianca follows Akpos and Bianca to Sun city but will Akpos give up his love with all the sweat he has invested or will Otunba win this time with the use of his wit and charm as the ‘old fox’ which he has used to conquer like he has done time and again, in the world of business?

Starring: Adesua Etomi, Ayo Makun, Richard Mofe-Damijo

Run time: 90 minutes

Synopsis: Everyone in the Osayande family worries about Isoken. Although she has what appears to have a perfect life – beautiful, successful and surrounded by great family and friends – Isoken is still unmarried at 34 which, in a culture obsessed with married, is serious cause for concern. Things come to a head at her youngest sister’s wedding when her overbearing mother thrusts her into an orchestrated matchmaking with the ultimate Edo man, Osaze. Osaze is handsome, successful and from a good family, making him perfect Nigerian husband material. But in an unexpected turn of events, Isoken meets Kevin who she finds herself falling in love with and he just might be what she truly wants in a partner. The only problem is, not only is he not an Edo man, he is Oyinbo (Caucasian).

Starring: Dakore Akande, Joseph Benjamin, Marc Rhys

Run time: 107 mins

Synopsis: Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.

Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Damien Bonnard, Aneurin Barnard

Run time: 106 mins

Synopsis: Gru meets his long-lost charming, cheerful, and more successful twin brother Dru who wants to team up with him for one last criminal heist.

Starring: Kylie Balda, Pierce Coffin

Run time: 96 mins