North East Cinema
Cinema & Film News
Win tickets to see Rocknrolla!
WHAT'S On North East is giving 10 readers the chance to win a pair of tickets to see Rocknrolla, at ODEON Silverlink. Plus the first prize winner will also receive exclusive Rocknrolla film merchandise.
New Force field from George Lucas
BACK in the mid-70s, young writer/director George Lucas was struggling to get his grand space opera movie made.
Great escape, Guy
GUY PEARCE, who plays Houdini in the new movie DEATH DEFYING ACTS, accepts that the contrast couldn’t be greater.
At last - the film of the book
FILM director Bharat Nalluri (that’s him in the trilby) is talking to me from a set in New York. He is between ‘takes’ in a new TV pilot he is shooting for ABC.
Film Reviews & Previews
Review: The Duchess (12A)
DIRECTOR Saul Dibb (Bullet Boy) ventures confidently into the realms of lavish costume drama with this adaptation of Amanda Foreman’s best-selling biography Georgiana, Duchess Of Devonshire.
Review: Disaster Movie (12A)
DIRECTOR Saul Dibb (Bullet Boy) ventures confidently into the realms of lavish costume drama with this adaptation of Amanda Foreman’s best-selling biography Georgiana, Duchess Of Devonshire.
Review: Bankok Dangerous (18)
YOU can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, not that it has stopped brothers Oxide and Danny Pang.
Review: Rocknrolla (15)
THREE years after the debacle of Revolver, writer-director Guy Ritchie returns to the mean streets of London.
Review: Babylon A.D. (12A)
FROM its downbeat opening monologue – “Save the planet? What for?” – Babylon A.D. imagines an environmentally ravaged world teetering on the brink of catastrophe.
Cinema Listings
The Mummy: Tomb of The Dragon Emperor
The action shifts to Asia for the next chapter in the adventure series.
Step Brothers
Comedy about two spoilt brats becoming step-brothers once their single parents get married.
The Duchess
Lavish biopic about 18th century English aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire.
Mamma Mia!
Meryl Streep leads an all-star cast in the feature-film adaptation of the beloved musical.
Mamma Mia!
Meryl Streep leads an all-star cast in the feature-film adaptation of the beloved musical.
Also in Cinema...
Review: Rocknrolla (15)
THREE years after the debacle of Revolver, writer-director Guy Ritchie returns to the mean streets of London.
Review: The Strangers (15)
ATTACK is often the best form of defence but what happens when you are faced with protecting the people you love from a faceless adversary without scruples or motive?
Review: The Duchess (12A)
DIRECTOR Saul Dibb (Bullet Boy) ventures confidently into the realms of lavish costume drama with this adaptation of Amanda Foreman’s best-selling biography Georgiana, Duchess Of Devonshire.
