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North East thriller Bypass finishes filming after nine weeks May 15 2013

A GRATEFUL message was posted on Facebook at the weekend by the people at Newcastle based production company Third Films.Read

Preview: BSL Zone showcase, Room 206 at St James’ Park May 01 2013

FILMS showcasing the talents of deaf actors and producers will be screened in Newcastle tomorrow.Read

TV star David Leon back home to flesh out impressive short film Apr 03 2013

ACTION has been called once again on David Leon’s film Orthodox, which impressed the short film circuit last year.Read

Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival to launch new prize for best short film Mar 26 2013

THE region's premier film festival is inviting artists and film-makers to compete for a new prize.Read

Review: The Croods + TRAILER Mar 22 2013

HOME is where the heart is in this energetic romp about a family of cavemen – and women – who embark on a perilous quest to find a new settlement.Read

Review: Jack The Giant Slayer + TRAILER Mar 22 2013

THE English folktale of Jack and the Beanstalk is given a smart CGI-heavy makeover in this fast-paced fantasy.Read

Review: Identity Theft + TRAILER Mar 22 2013

IDENTITY theft affects an estimated 1.8m people year in the UK. It’s hardly a laughing matter.Read

Review: Stolen + TRAILER Mar 22 2013

THIS lumbering action thriller, which reunites the Con Air director with grizzled leading man Nicolas Cage, intends to pickpocket 95 precious minutes of your life.Read

Review: Safe Haven - TRAILER Feb 28 2013

AUTHOR Nicholas Sparks is the king of slushy modern romance, tugging heartstrings with his emotionally wrought tales of love lost and found.Read

Review: Broken City - TRAILER Feb 28 2013

WE don’t need serpentine thrillers such as Broken City to remind us that politics is a grubby business. Read

Review: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters 3D - TRAILER Feb 28 2013

DIRECTOR Tommy Wirkola puts a bloodthirsty new spin on the classic fairytale in this gleefully violent fantasy. Read

Review: Cloud Atlas - TRAILER Feb 21 2013

BIG has always been beautiful to Lana and Andy Wachowski, writer-directors of the visually stunning Matrix trilogy.Read

Review: Song For Marion - TRAILER Feb 21 2013

MUSIC is the food of eternal love in Paul Andrew Williams’s comedy drama about personal triumph and reconciliation in the wake of terminal illness.Read

Review: Mama - TRAILER Feb 21 2013

THINGS go bump in the night, repeatedly, in Andy Muschietti’s unsettling ghost story.Read

Review: Sammy's Great Escape - TRAILER Feb 14 2013

STEALING a march - or should that be swim - on next month's 3D re-release of Finding Nemo, Sammy's Great Escape is a sweet and inoffensive computer animation with a gentle message about mankind’s plundering of underwater resources.Read

Review: This Is 40 Feb 14 2013

SINCE the release of The 40-Year-Old Virgin, writer-director Judd Apatow has become synonymous with comedies which explore the foibles of the human condition.Read

Review: A Good Day to Die Hard - TRAILER Feb 14 2013

TAKE a walk down Memory McClane. It has been an incredible 25 years since John McClane (Bruce Willis) first stormed the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles to rescue his wife from German terrorist Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) in the original Die Hard. Read

Review: Beautiful Creatures - TRAILER Feb 14 2013

BASED on the first book in the Caster Chronicles series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures is a supernatural love story about a teenager with strange powers torn between the forces of darkness and light.Read

Meet the man behind the magic of Richard Parker Feb 12 2013

BARBARA Hodgson speaks to a creator of the computer-generated tiger in Life of Pi which earned the film its stripes on Bafta night.Read

Review: Wreck-It Ralph - TRAILER Feb 07 2013

VIDEO games based on films allow audiences to put themselves in the thick of the action from their favourite Hollywood blockbusters and animated features. Read