WHAT TO WATCH: 10 Movies You Should Definitely Check Out This Weekend

Piece by: David Kingsley
Lifestyle

Here are 10 Box Office movies that you should definitely make time for this weekend.

1. Deep Water Horizon - a dramatization of the April 2010 disaster when the offshore drilling rig, Deepwater Horizon, exploded and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

2. Arrival - a linguist is recruited by the military to assist in translating alien communications.

3. Nocturnal Animals - an art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a veiled threat and a symbolic revenge tale.

4. Hacksaw Ridge - WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to be awarded the Medal of Honor.

5. Moonlight - a timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighbourhood of Miami.

6. Doctor Strange - a former neurosurgeon embarks on a journey of healing only to be drawn into the world of the mystic arts.

7. Lion - a five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

8. Jackie - following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husband's historic legacy.

9. Team Thor - the story of what the hammer-wielding Nordic god Thor was up to while the rest of the Avengers were battling each other in "Captain America: Civil War". He moves into a flat with office worker Darryl Jacobson in Australia.

10. Under Shadow - as a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war-torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.