Skram Summer Tour
After a hectic and unexpected year of epic releases and fun times, Skram bring their debut Summer Tour to the North Island. Smash Palace, Friday, February 4, 7.30pm. Vaccine pass required. Tickets from undertheradar.co.nz
Clash Tribute Show
Aotearoa's premier Clash tribute show is touring New Zealand to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the album Combat Rock and 20 years of Wazzo Clash, an authentic tribute to the legend that is, The Clash. Smash Palace, Thursday, February 17, 8.30pm. Tickets from undertheradar or $30 at the door.
Kendall Elise: Let The Night In
Kendall Elise and her band The Belgraves will be touring the North Island in celebration of the release of her new album, Let The Night In. Supported by Maorissey. Dome Room, Friday, February 25, 8pm. Presales at the Aviary and limited door sales. Tickets from undertheradar.co.nz
Summer Frequencies
Summer Frequencies Festival will host some of the biggest names in Kiwi music including House Of Shem, DJ Noiz, Tomorrow People, Ardijah, Herbs, Scribe, Che Fu and Three Houses Down. Postponed to March 4 and 5. Gisborne Soundshell. All tickets valid for new date. Tickets from ticketspace.co.nz
Gin Wigmore
Singer-songwriter Gin Wigmore is returning home for a five-date regional tour in March 2022. Smash Palace, March 17 and 18. Tickets from livenation.co.nz
Diablos Caravan
An evening of acoustic guitar performed by three of New Zealand's finest players. Dome Room, Friday, March 25. Tickets from undertheradar.co.nz
Annie: The Musical
Musical Theatre Gisborne presents Annie. War Memorial Theatre, April 22 to 30. CANCELLED
Pride Tairawhiti
To coincide with Pride Month in February, Tairāwhiti Rainbow Collective and Tairāwhiti Museum have come together to showcase stories and experiences of some of our LGBTQIA+ community members who have lived and grown up in Tairāwhiti. Opening tomorrow 10am.
Koaka o Whakaaro
Kōaka o Whakaaro is an exhibition of new works by the students and staff from Toihoukura School of Māori Visual Art and Design, showcasing the latest in emerging talent. Tairāwhiti Museum, until February 13.
Graeme Mudge exhibition and sale
The Mudge exhibition and sale is at 157 Ormond Road on Friday and Saturday from 9am to 5pm.
Makorori Artists Collective
The collective's second show is on at Verve Cafe in Gladstone Road until the end of February.
Be the Taniwha
Tai and Kaaterina Kerekere's exhibition is a tribute to leaders who challenged the status quo, paved pathways of empowerment and broke barriers by bringing issues to the surface. Tairawhiti Museum, until March 20.
Licorice Pizza
Coming-of-age comedy drama written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood, Phantom Thread). Set in 1970s California, it stars first-time film actors Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman, son of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman (who often worked with Anderson). Sean Penn, Tom Waits and Bradley Cooper play characters based on real people with imagined or exaggerated characteristics. Looks like a great soundtrack.
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield star as televangelists Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker, who famously fell from grace.
Hridayam
Indian Malayalam-language film in which a man in his early 30s reflects on his rocky road to adulthood.
Spencer
Kristen Stewart stars as Princess Diana at a family gathering where she supposedly decided to end her marriage to Prince Charles.
Gold
Two discoverers of a huge gold nugget must find a way to dig it out. But the doubt and greed begin to set in as they put their plan into motion.
Nightmare Alley
Guillermo del Toro-directed remake of a 1947 noir classic stars Bradley Cooper as an opportunistic conman who learns how to “read” people for a mentalist act, Toni Collette as the woman who teaches him, Cate Blanchett as the psychiatrist who proves to be a dangerous kindred spirit, and Rooney Mara as the kind soul who gets caught up in it all.
King Richard
Will Smith plays Richard Williams, father and coach of Venus (Saniyya Sidney) and Serena (Demi Singleton).
The 355
A group of female spies must work together to stop a terrorist organisation from starting another world war.
Scream
Twenty-five years after a streak of murders shocked the town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask.
The King's Man
Ralph Fiennes stars as the Duke of Oxford, a pacifist who sees the need for a group that will prevent major conflicts. As war clouds gather, he stands against some of the world's worst tyrants.
The Addams Family 2
Morticia and Gomez decide to recapture the family spirit by taking their children and relatives on a road trip.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
A single mother and her two children move to a new town and discover they have a connection to the original Ghostbusters.
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Peter Parker asks Dr Stephen Strange to help restore the secrecy of his Spider-Man identity, but this breaks open the multiverse, allowing the arrival of five supervillains.
Sing 2
Can-do koala Buster Moon and his all-star cast prepare a stage extravaganza.
Clifford the Big Red Dog
A magical animal rescuer gives Emily a small red puppy that overnight turns into a giant.
The Hating Game
Lucy Hale and Austin Stowell star as executive assistants who are forced to work with each other when their publishing companies merge, and are then positioned to compete for a promotion. It gets complicated when the promotion rivals begin to harbour romantic feelings for each other. Based on Sally Thorne's novel.
Mothers of the Revolution
Documentary about the Greenham Common women's protest, which started in 1981 when 36 women set off on a 120-mile march from Cardiff to Berkshire to protest against the planned arrival of US nuclear missiles on UK soil.
Rose Plays Julie
An adopted girl seeks out her birth mother and discovers the woman has no desire to meet her. What she discovers will change both of their lives.