The North East Magazine
“It’s The Way We Tell Them”. Humour is the honey that makes life bearable and believable. Human frailties, expectations, pretentions and self-delusions are the bread and butter of the joker and a well-delivered joke. We all want a jester on hand to transport us from our daily stresses. Comedy is the great social leveler and [...]
We live in a 24 hour news cycle where underneath the 15 minute repeat cycle of headlines conspiracy theorists run riot that the world that we live in is not really as it presents. This is not new phenomena a fact which is wonderfully in evidence in Networks first time release (in any format) of [...]
Edgar Wallace was a British crime writer who came to prominence in the Twenties and Thirties but is remembered best nowadays for having written the story and screenplay of “King Kong”. Wallace’s bread and butter however was as a crime writer and at this he excelled in popularity and production producing novels and short stories [...]
An unbelievable forty DVD collection starring Lee Majors produced by Freemantle Media Ltd is now available of this popular TV series on DVD. Yes, ”They Had The Technology” For most of the Seventies this was the coolest TV programme on the planet. It simply could not be missed for its mesmerising back-story that a former [...]
Here’s a show to warm your heart – a local youth group’s production of Disney movie “Camp Rock”. A musical story about kids by kids, it set in the Camp Rock talent school. Stories unfold of teenage crushes, jealousies, set backs and love and success winning through in the end. It’s a tableau of the [...]
Starring Hugh Bonneville, Romala Garai ,Edward Fox and Hugh Dancy this first time offering of Daniel Deronda is now available on DVD. Based on the last novel of George Eliot and directed by the Oscar winning Tom Hooper (The Kings Speech), Daniel Deronda tells the story of an intense love story set in Victorian High [...]
As we all celebrate the festive season we sometimes forget the real meaning of Christmas and the religious aspect of it. A fascinating new DVD release entitled ‘Riddles Of The Bible” from the National Geographic team gives the viewer a thought provoking insight into varying theories. Is there any factual basis to the stories featured [...]
This Lady’s Not For Turning. Known on this side of the pond as a forceful sharp tongued wasp of a comedienne, this DVD/film is a fly on the wall look at a year in the life of this hard working seventy seven year old force of nature. People may remember her TV show from the [...]