The Dome, Sunday, May 9, 7pm. Tickets, earlybird $32+bf, $40+bf.
Shipwreck Bar, Thursday, May 13, 7.30pm. Tickets from eventfinda; GA $25+bf, students, Gold Card and Community Services card holders $20+bf.
A programme featuring favourites from a wide range of genres. The beautiful counterpoint of Thomas Tallis will be presented alongside Leonard Cohen’s melodic genius, and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s show tunes alongside New Orleans-style jazz. St Andrew’s Church, Saturday, May 15, 2pm. Admission free/koha towards performers greatly appreciated.
Raglan groovers with a fun vibe and catchy hooks, with guests Oceanspace and Dosage. Smash Palace, Saturday, May 15, 8pm. Tickets $10-$20 plus booking fee from ticketfairy.com
Evolution Theatre, 75 Disraeli Street, $5 at door.
Musical Theatre Gisborne, 99 Innes Street. May 15-22. Tickets from i-SITE or eventfinda.
Toi Ake Gallery, 133 Ormond Road. Opens tomorrow, 6pm.
JBC Gallery, 14 Lowe Street. Opens tomorrow, 6.30pm.
Toihoukura, Maia Gallery.
Contemporary artworks,
67 Gladstone Road.
Woven art collection based on traditional raranga techniques, mixed with wild Israeli organic weaving. Tairawhiti Museum until May 9.
An installation by Cyndy McKenzie. Tairawhiti Museum until May 23.
A new security guard for a cash truck surprises his co-workers when he unleashes precision skills during a heist. Soon the marksman’s motives become clear as he takes dramatic steps to settle a score. The film is directed by Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch and Sherlock Holmes) and stars Jason Statham (The Transporter, The Expendables), Jeffrey Donovan and Josh Hartnett.
Two friends in the 1820s American Northwest see a chance to get ahead by using the milk they sneak by night from the first cow in the territory. They make and sell “oily cakes” that go down a treat with the trappers who make up their clientele.
Winner of Oscars for best picture, best director (Chloé Zhao) and best actress (Frances McDormand). Based on the non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-first Century, by Jessica Bruder. After her husband dies, a woman leaves her home town and travels around the United States as a van-dwelling working nomad. Also stars David Strathairn. Some real-life nomads star as fictionalised versions of themselves.
Reboot of the Mortal Kombat film series based on the video game franchise.
Eddie Izzard and Judi Dench star in film about an English finishing school for girls from influential families of Nazi Germany, and a teacher’s warnings of sinister motives.
Live-action/computer-animated hybrid where the cat-and-mouse stars of the old theatrical 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, but soon his family come to bring him home. James Corden and Elizabeth Debicki lend their voices to the roles of Peter Rabbit and Mopsy Rabbit.
Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman play father and daughter in this study of a steadfastly independent man gradually losing more and more of himself to dementia. Hopkins won the Oscar for best actor with this role.
Mythic adversaries do battle, with the fate of the world at stake.
Three Maori cousins are separated in childhood. One is placed in an orphanage and lives out her childhood in fear and bewilderment, saved only by her imagination. Her cousins at home never give up hoping that she will return.
A lone warrior must find the last dragon to stop monsters that dragons and humans once fought and defeated together.
In 1657 England, Fanny Lye transcends her oppressive marriage to discover new possibilities, but at great cost.
Three Maori cousins are separated in childhood when one of them is taken away and raised in an orphanage, but the two still at home never give up hoping that the cousin who left will return.
Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman star in father-daughter drama centred on an elderly man who refuses assistance — a decision that has him questioning everything around him.
