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This week
Tolaga Bay Inn: Tu Noanoa is Elvis at 1970s theme night, a fundraiser for the inn. Spot prizes for the best dressed and best dancer. Friday and Saturday, 6pm.
Swamp Thing: Smash Palace, Saturday, 9pm, presales $25 at Eventfinda.co.nz
Fiesta Latina Dance Party: The Dome Room, Saturday, 9pm, $5 presales The Aviary, $10 door.
COMING UP
How I Met My Father: Comedian Rhian Wood-Hill’s storytelling show, The Dome Room, August 3 (8pm), $14 presale tickets at Eventfinda, $18 at the door.
Answers from the Other Side: Sue Nicholson from Sensing Murder, War Memorial Theatre, Aug 7 (7pm).
Tairawhiti Museum: Sunday Concert Series presents James Jin (violin) and Xing Wang (piano), Aug 13 (2pm).
Rhys Darby: Mystic Time Bird, War Memorial Theatre, Monday Aug 14 (8pm).
Looking for Alaska, and Albi and The Wolves: The Dome Room, Aug 18 (8pm), $15 from BUY TIX 0800 289 849.
THEATRE
Beauty and the Beast: Musical Theatre Gisborne, War Memorial Theatre, August 2-5 (7.30pm plus Aug 5 matinee 2.30pm). Tickets available from Stephen Jones Photography or TicketDirect.
Macbeth: Unity Theatre, Ormond Rd, Aug 18-25. Tickets are available from i-Site, Grey St.
At the flicksODEON MULTIPLEX
The Big Sick: Romantic comedy based on the real-life courtship of Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and graduate student Emily V. Gordon. Complications ensue. Kumail’s traditional Muslim parents have misgivings, and when Emily has a mystery illness, Kumail must navigate the crisis with her parents (played by Holly Hunter and Ray Romano).
Atomic Blonde: Charlize Theron plays an MI6 spy sent to Berlin on the eve of the Berlin Wall’s collapse to take down an espionage ring that has just killed an agent for no apparent reason. She and the eccentric Berlin station chief (James McAvoy) combine to combat the threat.
Hampstead: Real-life story of a homeless man who built a shack on the edge of London’s Hampstead Heath inspired this film. A widow (played by Diane Keaton), struggling to meet her apartment’s service charges, forms a relationship with a tramp (Brendan Gleeson) who has created a well-tended smallholding in the grounds of a disused hospital.
Baby Driver: Baby, a getaway driver with tinnitus, is in deep with the wrong people. Initially driving to pay off a debt, he is coerced into another job that could be the death of him. Edgar Wright film stars Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Lily James, Jon Hamm and Jamie Foxx.
Dunkirk: Contradictions in the Dunkirk story attracted director Christopher Nolan. It was not a victory, did not involve America, and yet demanded big scale. Unknown actors in lead roles reflect soldiers’ inexperience. Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy and Mark Rylance also star.
Spider-Man: Homecoming: Tom Holland is Peter Parker, who develops spider-like abilities after being bitten by a special spider. Michael Keaton and Robert Downey Jr also star.
War for the Planet of the Apes: Caesar and his apes are forced into conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless colonel.
Churchill: Brian Cox plays Winston Churchill, waiting for the launch of the D-Day invasion.
Despicable Me 3: Gru (Steve Carell) faces off against Balthazar Bratt, a former child star obsessed with the character he played.
Transformers: The Last Knight: Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg), an English lord (Anthony Hopkins) and an Oxford don join forces to save us all.
Cars 3: Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) sets out to prove he’s still got it.
Wonder Woman: Amazon princess has idyllic life upset by crash-landing pilot in World War 1, and vows to help bring about peace.
DOME CINEMA
Polina: A gifted Bolshoi ballerina falls in love with a French dancer who introduces her to modern dance and world travel.
The Journey: Colm Meaney plays Sinn Fein leader Martin McGuinness and Timothy Spall plays loyalist leader Ian Paisley in a reconstruction of how a shared car journey might have gone in the lead-up to Northern Ireland power-sharing talks.
Despite the Falling Snow: A young woman in post-Stalinist Soviet Union spying for the Americans marries a member of the Kremlin elite to get information, falls in love and plans to defect with him. Thirty years later, he returns to see what happened to her.
VISUAL ARTS
EXHIBITIONS
Tairawhiti Museum: The 100 Days Project group exhibition, until December 10; Flying Moas retrospective, to August 13; Mahunga: Photographs from the early 20th century, capturing the establishment of Mahunga Station near Matawai.
Toihoukura: Rakaunui: a collaborative exhibition of students’ and tutors’ work. Toihoukura, school of Maori visual arts, Cobden Street.
Pou Te Wharau: Echoes of Our Ancestors: Te Wananga o Aotearoa, Childers Rd.
Muirs Bookshop and Cafe: Paintings by Derek Solomon.
Verve Cafe: Fabric art by Tina Drain.
Zest Cafe: The People Project, photographs byIsabella Grant.
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