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Film Review: Hobo With a Shotgun (18)

IT WILL be 20 years next June since the charismatic Blade Runner and Guinness ads star Rutger Hauer threw me out of an interview with him at the now demolished MGM Arcadian cinema.Read

Film Review: The Tree of Life (12A) ***

HOLLYWOOD has been preoccupied this year with delivering one instantly forgettable movie after another, particularly in the shallow comic book and below-the-belt comedy genres.Read

Film Review: Trust (15) ****

KEEPING our inquisitive children safe online is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century – but it’s not a subject which Hollywood has tried to challenge head on. Until now.Read

Film Review: Super (18) **

THE strangest 18-certificate cinematic experience I’ve ever had was in the early 90s when a punk woman with tattoos and chains was preparing to feed her nine-month-old baby at the start of a screening of the seminal 1986 horror movie Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer.Read

Birmingham Mail reviews Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2

THAT the eighth and final Harry Potter movie should end where the series began on Platform 9¾ back in 2001 will not surprise any fans of the books.Read

Days Out: Worcestershire County Museum

THERE are more than 1,000 years of history at Worcester County Museum at Hartlebury Castle.Read

A Walk in the Park: Witton Lane Gardens

EYEBROWS were raised when the former Witton Lane Stand at Aston Villa became the Doug Ellis Stand.Read

Pub Review: The White Horse, Kenilworth Road, Balsall Common CV7 7DT. Tel: 01676 533207

ARRIVING at this semi-rural pub at 6pm on a Saturday, we were given a table for four just so long as they could “have it back for 8pm”.Read

Cheap as Chips: Bell Lane Fish Bar, 19 Bell Lane, B33 0HS

A NEARBY gym was full of larger-than-life exercisers.Read

A Walk in the Park: Bournville Girls' Rec

EVEN garden-loving Japanese visitors are said to be open-mouthed when they visit this park for the first time.Read

Film Review: Transformers - Dark of the Moon (12A) ***

IT’S A golden rule of this column never to reveal movie ‘spoilers’.Read

Film Review: Larry Crowne (12A) *

AFTER Tom Hanks won back to back Oscars for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump, he looked odds on to become the first actor to win three.Read

Film Review: The Conspirator (12A) **

WE HAVEN’T seen Robert Redford on screen since he directed himself in the appalling Lions For Lambs in 2007 and he’s left himself out of his latest movie.Read

Days Out: Evesham Country Park, Ark Animal Sanctuary and Evesham Light Railway

FANCY a lovely drive out into the country with something different for various members of your family to enjoy at the end of it?Read

Film Review: Bridesmaids (15) ***

THERE’S always a first time for everything – so before you decide whether or not to see Hollywood’s latest gross-out comedy, here’s a public health warning.Read

Film Review: Bad Teacher (15) ***

BAD is a very popular word in Hollywood... Will Smith’s Bad Boys, Jeff Bridges’ Bad Company, Rob Lowe’s Bad Influence, Madeleine Stowe’s Bad Girls and Harvey Keitel’s Bad Lieutenant.Read

Film Review: Potiche (15) **

GERARD Depardieu seems to be developing a topical taste for films about industrial relations.Read

Film Review: Green Lantern 3D (12A) ***

ANOTHER week, another comic book superhero arrives to fly across the screen in dodgy 3D.Read

Days Out: Blackpool Pleasure Beach

BRITAIN’S favourite seaside theme park takes on a whole new twist this year.Read

Film Review: The Beaver (12A) ****

DESPITE its 12A certificate, Jodie Foster’s third film as a director should not in any way be construed as a movie to take young members of your family to see.Read