Weekend Watch: 5 Movies To See This Weekend

Posted by Samson Kankan Entertainment, Latest Headlines Saturday, October 29th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Examiner has compiled a short list of movies to keep you entertained this weekend.

Halloween Ends

Halloween Ends is a 2022 American slasher film that is the sequel to Halloween Kills (2021), the thirteenth installment in the Halloween franchise, and the final film in the trilogy of sequels that started with the 2018 film.
The movie is set four years after the events of Halloween Kills. Laurie is living with her granddaughter Allyson and is finishing writing her memoir. Michael Myers hasn’t been seen since. Laurie, after allowing the spectre of Michael to determine and drive her reality for decades, has decided to liberate herself from fear and rage and embrace life. But when a young man, Corey Cunningham, is accused of killing a boy he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of violence and terror that will force Laurie to finally confront the evil she can’t control, once and for all.
The One for Sarah
The One for Sarah is a 2022 Nollywood drama that follows Sarah, a fashion designer with self-esteem issues brought on by a violent ex-boyfriend. Now trying to set up her business, she meets Michael, a high-profile photographer who offers a chance to showcase her designs in a photo shoot with a modeling agency.
The feature, directed by Lyndsey Esejuku, stars Adunni Ade, Samuel Animashaun Perry (Broda Shaggi), Daniel Etim Effiong, and more.
The One for Sarah is now showing in theatres in Nigeria.

Elesin Oba: The King’s Horseman

Elesin Oba: The King’s Horseman is a Nollywood epic drama directed by Biyi Bandele.
Inspired by true life events, in the Oyo Empire in the 1940s, Elesin Oba, the king’s chief horseman, succumbs to the lure of beauty and sexual desire on the very evening he is set to die in order to fulfill his lifelong debt of ritual suicide to accompany the dead Alaafin to the realm of the ancestors, he derails from a very important generational and spiritual transaction. This sets in motion a series of catastrophic consequences.

Fact: Elesin Oba: The King’s Horseman is a screen adaptation of Wole Soyinka’s stage play Death and the King’s Horseman. It is also the late Biyi Bandele’s last feature movie and was released in September 2022, a month after his death.
Elesin Oba: The King’s Horseman is now streaming on Netflix and is also showing in theatres around Nigeria.
Human Playground
Human Playground is a Netflix documentary series that explores the origins and evolution of play across the globe, from age-old rituals to billion-dollar businesses. From ritual war games to mountaineering, marathons, and combat sports, the documentary aims to explore all the ways the world became the Human Playground.
It is narrated by the mercurial Idris Elba, Human Playground is now streaming on Netflix.

All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front is a German war period piece directed by Edward Berger.
The movie follows a 17-year-old Paul, who joins the Western Front in World War I. The teenager’s initial excitement is soon shattered by the grim reality of life in the trenches. The film was masterfully shot by James Friend and bears a certain resemblance (though not uncanny) to Roger Deakins’ cinematography in the critically-acclaimed 1917.
All Quiet on the Western Front, released on September 29, is now available on Netflix.