IN the high-speed world of Formula 1 racing, German driver Michael Schumacher is considered by many pundits to be the greatest athlete on four wheels, winning the World Championship a record seven times.Read
JUST down the road from the former site of Gateshead’s Get Carter car park, a new exhibition is paying tribute to another of architect Owen Luder’s local landmarks that will soon be turned to dust.Read
TODD Phillips’s hair of the dog to the highest grossing comedy film of 2009 is a 101-minute alcohol and drug-fuelled bender that sees the same characters in the same hellish nightmare and watches them squirm.Read
WHILE all the action at Newcastle Theatre Royal of late has been happening behind the scenes – with its £4.75m six-month refurbishment well underway – there will be sounds of activity today that have nothing to do with the builders.Read
JOHNNY Depp’s impressive resume is littered with oddball characters yet he’s probably best known as salty seadog Jack Sparrow in the Pirates Of The Caribbean films – the first role to earn him a long overdue Oscar nomination as Best Actor.Read
JASON Statham dishes out merciless beatings in this gritty action thriller adapted from the novel by Ken Bruen about a mentally unstable loner at war with London’s police.Read
SOME directors strive for greatness and never fulfil their potential – others dazzle with their debut feature then have the unenviable task of living up to lofty expectations.Read
Eighties pop icons Duran Duran launch their first Arena tour for seven years in Newcastle this week. Drummer Roger Taylor talks to Barbara Hodgson about life back in the fast laneRead
TIME and again, when extraterrestrials invade Earth, they choose the trigger-happy US. And every time, there is a square-jawed hero, striking a pose in front of the Stars and Stripes, who single-handedly repels them.Read
A GRIEVING patriarch walks in the footsteps of his late son in the fourth directorial feature of actor Emilio Estevez, who once again casts father Martin Sheen in front of the camera.Read
THE 1980s was definitely the decade that fashion forgot, which accounts for the profusion of bouffant hair-dos and shoulder pads in this nostalgic romantic comedy.Read
BARACK Obama, as you’d imagine, has lots on his plate right now but as he talks he reveals he’s still a bit pre-occupied with that birth certificate hoo-ha.Read
Barbara Hodgson is an arts and entertainment writer who also contributes to our sister Culture magazine. She has worked in journalism for 18 years and has worked at ncjMedia for the last nine years.
