Watch Big Films on the Big Screen at Pontio in Bangor
The Bangor Aye film of the week: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (12A)
Audience Rating: 82% (Rotten Tomaroes) based on 5,000+ reviews
“A fun time and movie, Michael Keaton didn’t miss a beat and makes the movie worth it. The rest of movie and story was forgettable and standard fare.”
“Loved it! Loved the cast”
“It was very nostalgic and modern, surprisingly they made that clash work really well!”
Find out more about what’s on at Pontio and buy tickets here: https://tickets.pontio.co.uk/
Films:
Alien: Romulus (15)
Friday 30 August – Thursday 12 September
While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
Chuck Chuck Baby (15)
Friday 6 – Wednesday 11 September
Chuck Chuck Baby is a musical drama set in and around a chicken factory in industrial North Wales. Helen, a reserved, gentle woman, is slowly collapsing under the weight of her inexplicable life.
She lives with her torpid husband and his much younger girlfriend (and their new colicky baby), working nights at the local chicken processing plant. There are two things that keep her hanging on: music, and her dear elderly mother-in-law Gwen, whom she cares for. This dismal state of affairs is interrupted when Joanne, a former neighbour (and Helen’s schoolgirl crush), arrives back in town after her father’s death. What begins as a casual meeting between the two women swiftly turns to friendship and then to love.
ROH Live: The Marriage of Figaro
Tuesday 10 September, 6.30pm
It’s Figaro’s wedding, and you’re invited to join the Almaviva household for an uproarious day of revelation and scandal. Mozart’s comic opera is packed with plot twists, forbidden desires and unforgettable melodies, combining laugh-out-loud comedy with moments of breathtaking beauty.
National Theatre Live
Prima Facie (15)
Thursday 12 September, 7pm
Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) makes her West End debut in the UK premiere of Suzie Miller’s award-winning play. Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game; defending; cross examining and winning. An unexpected event forces her to confront the lines where the patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and morals diverge.
Prima Facie takes us to the heart of where emotion and experience collide with the rules of the game. Justin Martin directs this solo tour de force, captured live from the intimate Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West End.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (12A)
Friday 13 – Thursday 19 September
Three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River after an unexpected family tragedy. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia’s life soon gets turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter discovers a mysterious portal to the afterlife. When someone says Beetlejuice’s name three times, the mischievous demon gleefully returns to unleash his very own brand of mayhem.
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Theatr Bryn Terfel
Lanterns on the Lake
Friday 13 September 7.30pm
Cyn Cwsg will be supporting
Originally formed in Tyneside in 2007, Lanterns on the Lake combine dreamy, melancholic Indie rock with beautiful layers of texture and celestial melodies that thread around intricate instrumentation. Their fourth studio album Spook The Herd was released in February 2020 to critical acclaim and earned a place on the shortlist for the Mercury Prize.
Throughout their career, the band’s music has been used in soundtracks for film, TV (Conversations with Friends, Uncanny, Made In Chelsea, Skins) and the video game Life Is Strange. They have recorded an orchestral live album with The Royal Northern Sinfonia and played shows opening for Explosions in the Sky, Low and Yann Tiersen.
On the 2nd of June 2023, Lanterns on the Lake released their self-produced and much-anticipated new album, Versions of Us.
It’s a heartening idea. Despite the difficulties in its genesis, Versions of Us is the most empowering album yet from the band. In exploring whether we can change fate or are doomed to repeat the same mistakes in life, this powerful collection of songs ultimately alights on hope. As closer “Last Transmission” fractures and falls apart over its final two minutes – its wreckage gracefully burning up in the atmosphere – its narrator finds that, “in the last gasp of this old world / You know I think I found the beauty and the good”. It’s also never too late to change course.
