The weekend is here again and cinemas across the country will be showing a number of Nigerian and foreign movies.
Given our preference for Nollywood, we present five movies that are worth going to the cinema for.
- Picture Perfect
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.
Casts: Bolanle Ninolowo, Mary Remmy Njoku, Bisola Aiyeola (Big Brother Naija)
Director: Tope Alake
Genre: Romantic comedy
Running time: 1hr 52mins
- Roti:
The psychological limits and endurance of a couple are stretched after the wife, Diane, suddenly sees an exact replica of her dead son (five years after his death), walking leisurely home from a different school and living an entirely different life. The emotional ramifications of this experience becomes near damning.
Cast: Kate Henshaw, Kunle Afolayan, Toyin Oshinaike, Fathia Balogun and Dari Afolayan.
Director: Kunle Afolayan
Genre: Drama
Running time: 1hr 13mins
- 10 Days in Sun City
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 in South Africa, 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?
Cast: Ayo Makun, Richard Mofe Damijo, Adesua Etomi, Mercy Johnson Okojie
Director: Adze Ugah
Genre- Adventure, action, comedy
Running time – 90mins
- Isoken
Isoken, a beautiful and successful lady is unmarried at 34 in an environment obsessed with marriage, constantly leaving everyone in the Osanyanda family worried. Eventually her mother thrusts her into matchmaking with the ultimate Edo man, Osaze, who is handsome, successful and from a good family making him a perfect Nigerian husband material. When she thinks she finally got the right man, Isoken finds herself falling in love with Kelvin and that he might just be the right man she is searching for. But her only problem is that he is not an Edo boy but an Oyinbo (white man).
Cast: Joseph Benjamin, Dakore Akande, Funke Akindele
Director: Jadesola Osiberu
Genre: Drama
Running time: 1hr
- Alakada Reloaded
A village girl is picked to be on a reality show and takes her life all the way to the reality show house. There is a turn of event when her old classmate joins the cast of characters.
Cast: Toyin Abraham, Odunlade Adekola, Helen Paul, Iyabo Ojo
Director: Toyin Abraham
Genres: Comedy
Running time: 103mins
