Updated 1:47am 26 May 2012

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Alison Jones

Alison Jones

Film: Plan comes together for new movie

Col Hannibal Smith was always the man with the plan but The A-Team was about formula.Read

Comedy: Popcorn’s a feast for the ears and eyes

Log onto Dice Productions’ website and on the home page you will find a board game too intriguing to resist.Read

Popcorn snaps and crackles

LOG onto Dice Productions’ website and on the home page you will find a board game too intriguing to resist.Read

Theatre: A-Team's Dirk faces his public one last time

“I THINK of this as my farewell tour,” says Dirk Benedict. “I am trying to disappear totally and I have pretty well but I am working on being anonymous.”Read

Comedy: Mock star Dara O'Briain stands up for us

WHEN controversial comic Frankie Boyle announced he was to leave Mock the Week, the BBC’s current affairs punfight, fans launched an unsuccessful campaign to persuade him to stay.Read

Film: Man behind the mask...

After re-writing Sherlock Holmes lore with an extremely physical interpretation of the cerebral detective, Robert Downey Jnr returns as yet another of the great crime fighters of literature, though this time it is comic book rather than novel.Read

Film: I felt sad for Polanski - Ewan McGregor

With his trendily choppy hair cut, scruff of beard, dark jeans, sweater and heavy black boots, Ewan McGregor could easily pass for a smartly-dressed student.Read

Film: Robert Pattison is after roles he can get his teeth into

The producers of the modest indie movie Remember Me must have had the timing gods on their side when they presented their script to leading man Robert Pattinson.Read

Film: Matt Damon joins the WMDs debate

Iraq is the new Vietnam for film makers. A fertile ground for stories of heroism and sacrifice, as well as for questioning the motives of the governments who led us into it.Read

Film: Why Jeff is Bad to the Bone

JEFF Bridges is odds-on favourite to be named best actor at the Oscars this weekend for his role as an alcoholic country singer in Crazy Heart.Read

Film: I had no doubt Gucci man would be a top director

THERE is a one in five chance that come March 7, Colin Firth could be walking away from the Kodak Theatre with an Academy Award clutched in his hand and an appropriately modest and self-deprecating, in that very British way, acceptance speech in his pocket.Read

Film: Mel Gibson is back!

After a prolonged absence from our screens during which he has occupied himself with directing and coping with headline-making personal problems, including an arrest for DUI, the break-up of his marriage and becoming a father for the eighth time by his new girlfriend, Mel Gibson is back in two films this year.Read

Clive Owen: As a parent, I found one of the scenes deeply upsetting

As a parent, I found one of the scenes deeply upsettingRead

Films: School bad boy is now hot property

Ray Winstone was unemployed for a while not long after he punched his way to fame as a bolshy Borstal boy in Scum.Read

Theatre: Ray Quinn ready to charm Brum in Sleeping Beauty panto

HE has been a TV star, a singer with a platinum disc to his name, skated his way to glory on ice and starred in the West End, and Ray Quinn has still only just turned 21.Read

Neighbours star Stefan Dennis takes to the stage as Dandini in Cinderella

FROM soaps to serious TV dramas, from the pop charts to musicals, and from plays to pantomime, Stefan Dennis has had a go at most aspects of showbusiness.Read

Quentin Tarantino strikes again with Inglourious Basterds

THERE is a moment in Inglourious Basterds when Jewish officer Brad Pitt, having left his bloody calling card on a Nazi officer, remarks it might well be his masterpiece.Read

Modesty in cellophane

With roles as comic book characters the Green Lantern and Deadpool lined up, Ryan Reynolds might reasonably be expecting a cinematic future involving clinging lycra costumes.Read

Harry the heart-throb!

HARRY Potter set fans’ hearts racing when he finally locked lips under the mistletoe with his crush Cho Chang in Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix.Read

Eric's dream job

Sir Alex Ferguson could have saved himself a tidy sum of money if only he had known that his high-scoring, collar-flipping French signing Eric Cantona was willing to play the game for free.Read

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Alison Jones is a writer and acting features editor for The Birmingham Post.