Barleycorn: Irish-influenced band, St Andrew’s Church, September 6 (12.30pm), koha.
Ben Salter: The Dome Room, September 15 (8pm), $15 pre-sales from the Aviary and at the door, early bookings recommended.
Waikato-Bay of Plenty Regional Brass Band Competitions: Campion College, September 16-17
(9.30am-4.30pm), entry: Saturday gold coin donation, Sunday $10, children gold coin donation.
Big Daddy Wilson and band: Dome Room, October 29 (3pm) Eventfinda $30, door $35.
Isla Grant in concert: War Memorial Theatre, November 12, (7.30pm).
THEATRE
Bill Massey’s Tourists: Jan Bolwell plays her adolescent self, encouraging her grandfather to talk about
World War 1. Unity Theatre, September 6 (7.30pm).
Tutus on Tour: Royal New Zealand Ballet, War Memorial Theatre, September 27 (7.30pm).
The Sound of Music: War Memorial Theatre, October 10 (7pm).
At the flicksDOME CINEMA
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.
Polina: A gifted Bolshoi ballerina falls in love with a French dancer who introduces her to modern dance and world travel.
ODEON MULTIPLEX
The Trip to Spain: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon go on another culinary road trip, this time to Spain, exchanging barbs and celebrity impressions amid reflections on settling into middle age.
Logan Lucky: Heist comedy directed, shot and edited by Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich, Ocean’s Eleven, Magic Mike). Ensemble cast includes Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Seth MacFarlane, Katie Holmes, Dwight Yoakam, Brian Gleeson, Hilary Swank and Daniel Craig.
The Dark Tower: A gunslinger, Roland Deschain (Idris Elba), is locked in battle with the Man in Black, Walter O’Dim (Matthew McConaughey). The gunslinger must protect the Dark Tower — a mythical structure that supports all realities — from the Man in Black. Adapted from Stephen King series of novels.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets: Corrosive mass threatens 28th-century space metropolis housing species from a thousand planets. Space agents Major Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Sergeant Laureline (Cara Delevingne) are sent to investigate. Film based on a French sci-fi comic series. Luc Besson wrote the screenplay, co-produced and directed.
Annabelle: Creation: A prequel to the 2014 movie Annabelle, and the fourth film in The Conjuring series. Stephanie Sigman, Talitha Bateman, Anthony LaPaglia and Miranda Otto star in story behind the origin of the possessed Annabelle doll.
The Big Sick: Romantic comedy based on the real-life courtship of Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and graduate student Emily V. Gordon.
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.
Hampstead: A widow (played by Diane Keaton) forms a relationship with a tramp (Brendan Gleeson) who has created a well-tended smallholding in the grounds of a disused hospital.
Baby Driver: Getaway driver Baby 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, Jon Hamm and Jamie Foxx.
Dunkirk: The Dunkirk story, directed by Christopher Nolan. Unknown actors in lead roles reflect soldiers’ inexperience. Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy and Mark Rylance also star.
Despicable Me 3: Gru (Steve Carell) faces off against Balthazar Bratt, a former child star obsessed with the character he played.
EXHIBITIONS
Tairawhiti Museum: The 100 Days Project artists’ solo exhibitions, until December 10; Gisborne Artists and Potters Group, August 19-September 24; Recent acquisitions, August 24-September 24.
Verve Cafe: Paintings by Maiko Lewis-Whaanga.
Muirs Bookshop and Cafe: Works by Krystle Kelly.
Zest Cafe: The People Project — photographs by Isabella Grant.
Got something going on? Let The Guide know at guide@gisborneherald.co.nz, or call 869-0630.
