LEADING concert pianist Murray McLachlan is to play at the inaugural Northumberland Music Festival in a programme which already features one of the country’s best opera companies.Read
RECALLING the cliffhanger TV series of the 1950s, this establishes the origins of one of the most popular superheroes from the Marvel Comics stable.Read
AS an ex-boy band singer Collin Baxter is used to the limelight – and the screaming girls – but how does co-starring in a little-known play in South Shields compare?Read
ALMOST 10 years after the cinema release of the first Harry Potter instalment, the most financially successful film franchise in history reaches its tragic and spectacular conclusion.Read
YOU never forget good mates and a group of actors and musicians who are making time in their diaries for the next Sunday for Sammy concert is certainly proof of that.Read
ON its iridescent, green surface, this special effects-heavy battle of the planets is mindless guff, but there are universal truths buried amid the hokum torn from the pages of DC Comics.Read
THE trials of Mel Gibson, whose rants to an ex-girlfriend were caught on tape last year, seem like a curious case of life imitating art in this blackly humorous tale of a middle aged man’s emotional breakdown.Read
PREPARE for the return of awesomeness in this energetic martial arts comedy which kicks computer-animated butt and comes close to matching the rumbustious fun of the 2008 original.Read
VERY good things come to those who wait. After the sinking ship of the new Pirates of the Caribbean and pounding headache of The Hangover Part II, the omens were ill for this summer season.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.
