Reflections & Connections, a programme that features pieces on the themes of reflection (reflecting light, reflective contemplation) and connection (across time, across space, through barriers). Tiromoana, Sunday, July 4, 2.30pm. Entry $25 adults, students free.
A Gizzy Kai Rescue benefit gig that includes Paws, Slyone, Stix, Brazilbeat, Geeez, DJose, plus more to be announced. Smash Palace, Saturday, July 10. Tickets from eventfinda.
Smash Palace, Friday, July 16, 8pm. Free entry.
Performed by Catherine Delahunty and Sarah Delahunty, Evolution Theatre, 75 Disraeli Street, Saturday, 7.30pm. Entry $20 at door.
Presented by Centre Stage. War Memorial Theatre, June 18 – 26. Tickets from i-SITE or ticketek.
Tennessee Williams’ evocation of loneliness and lost love. July 1 - July 11, 7.30pm shows plus two 4pm Sunday matinees. Adults $30+bf, youth $25+bf, drama/lit educators (with ID) $25+bf, seniors $25+bf. Book at trybooking.com via this shortcut https://tinyurl.com/ebwjt292. Evolution Theatre Company, 75 Disraeli St.
Unity Theatre, 209 Ormond Rd. Opens Thursday July 8 - July 11, 7.30pm plus two matinees. Tickets from eventfinda, $25+bf.
Works by kai whakairo Eru Brown, Tamanay Tuhou, Houston Pekin, Meka Mauriri, Kiwa Mihaka and Matthew Randall in a show that revisits the origins of these ‘artforms’ engineered for the practice of survival. Tairawhiti Museum until August 1.
Poutu Puketapu’s installation that retells the legend of Uru, eldest child of Ranginui and Papatuanuku. Tairawhiti Museum until July 21.
Tairawhiti Museum until July 25.
Works by Melanie Tangaere Baldwin, and Matthew Couper.
Ko Wai! Works by Steve Gibbs, Maia Gibbs, Maia Keane, Rina Kerekere, and Jual Toroa.
Christopher Walken plays Percy Schmeiser, a Saskatchewan canola farmer, who was sued in 1998 for allegedly using patented Monsanto seeds without a licence. Schmeiser teamed up with an attorney and an environmental activist to fight the case all the way to the Supreme Court.
A teenager must spend a summer holiday with his mother when he expected to be in Florida with his dad and his dad’s new wife. An English summer in the suburbs does not live up to his expectations, but his mum tries to perk him up. Stars Earl Cave, Monica Dolan, Rob Brydon and Tamsin Greig.
Samuel L. Jackson, Salma Hayek and Ryan Reynolds are the hitman, his wife and the bodyguard respectively in the sequel to The Hitman’s Bodyguard. This time Antonio Banderas is there as a vengeful madman out to make the world pay, and Morgan Freeman is there, too.
Poppy is “a girl with something extra”. Frustrated by her protective elder brother’s reluctance to arrange what their late father had promised — a mechanic’s apprenticeship — Poppy weighs up her options elsewhere.
True story of racehorse Dream Alliance, bred by a small-town Welsh bartender (Toni Collette) and raised with the help of weekly contributions from the meagre earnings of friends.
Oscar winners Emma Stone and Emma Thompson star in a live-action film about the rebellious early days of the 101 Dalmatians bad egg, Cruella de Vil, or Estella as she was known in her youth.
Another case from the files of real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. It features the first case in US history where a murder suspect claimed demonic possession as a defence.
Jake Gyllenhaal and Julianne Moore are in the voice cast for a computer-animated film about Lucky, whose aunt moves her to a small town where her adventurous spirit won’t get her into scrapes. It’s too quiet for Lucky until she meets a wild mustang she must protect.
A family venture out into a post-apocalyptic world where blind monsters with acute hearing roam. Stars Emily Blunt and Cillian Murphy.
The cat-and-mouse stars of the short-film series get another feature-film outing.
Peter can’t seem to shake off his reputation for mischief. Once he ventures out of the garden, Peter finds a world where mischief is appreciated.
A teenage Metallica fan and his mother must coexist for the holidays after plans for the boy to spend time with his father in Florida fall through. Stars Earl Cave, Monica Dolan, Rob Brydon and Tamsin Greig.
A violinist visiting an Irish village for a semester of overseas study falls in love with an actor shooting scenes for an adventure fantasy. Forces linked to his stardom threaten to crush their hopes.
The wife of a famous artist tries to contact his estranged family before his dementia worsens. Stars Lena Olin and Bruce Dern.
