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Graham Young

Graham Young

Doolan: I thought I was going to die

BBC WM presenter Ed Doolan has told how he feared he might die in his latest health scare. Read

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Evan Almighty

GOOD Evan! After the widespread Midland floods of late July here's a comedy about a flood...and an ark. Read

Tales From Earthsea

MADE by master filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese classics Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle are real animation favourites with my young children. Read

The Hoax

THE first half of 2007 saw a six per cent jump in cinema business year on year, with the public spending £396.8 million on 76.9 million visits. Read

Happily N'ever After

SARAH Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr and Sigourney Weaver are among the voice talents on this stylised animation which is a lower-profile alternative to Shrek 3. Read

Paris J'taime

THIS often mind-numbing 121-minute collection of short films by leading filmmakers like Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven, the Coens and Alfonso Cuaron suggests most of them should go back to the day job. Read

Die Hard 4.0

GRAB the biggest tub of popcorn you can find - Bruce Willis is back on top form in a film that matches him all the way. Read

Dead Silence

THE title of James Wan's horror thriller refers not only to the eerie calm which descends every time the vengeful ventriloquist and her demonic dummy attack an unsuspecting victim, but also the likely reaction of audiences to this old-fashioned hocus pocus. Read

Voice of football Hugh Johns dies

FORMER Midland football commentator Hugh Johns has died aged 84. Read

Hostel Part II

ONCE again executively produced and 'presented' by Quentin Tarantino, it's hard to imagine movies becoming any more disturbing. Read

The Future Is Unwritten

THE 124-minute running time of this Joe Strummer biopic might test the patience of non-Clash fans despite contributions from Bono, John Cusack and even Martin Scorsese. Read

Shrek The Third

STILL photography's 'rule of thirds' moves the subject off centre to winning effect. In cinemas, third helpings merely prove the law of diminishing returns. Read

The Flying Scotsman

NEITHER a film about air travel nor a railway, this is the amazing story of depressive Scottish cyclist Graeme Obree who tried to break the world record for the greatest distance travelled in one hour - using a home-made bicycle constructed partly from washing machine components. Read

Lucky You

I DO wonder about filmmakers who play into critics' hands with such double-edged titles. Read

Ma Mome - La Vie En Rose

WHO knows if Edith Piaf would have made it through a mid-20th Century Gallic version of France Has Got Talent? Read

Captivity

THE adult certificate is no quality-control guide to the horrors in store in this disaster. Read

Three-in-one show is a triumph

ORGANISERS of the first three-in-one show at the NEC were celebrating its success today. Read

Ocean's 13

WHEN Coventry's giant new Isle Casino launches next month, you can imagine that George Clooney will be there in the spirit of Danny Ocean... trying to rob the joint! Read

Black Gold

IF YOU love your coffee don't miss this fabulous 78-minute documentary movie about how the beans are grown, sorted and traded. Read

Are We Done Yet?

HANDS up if you enjoyed Bringing Down the House? Didn't fall asleep during Black Night and National Security? Grinned all the way through Big Momma's House I & 2 and then thought Norbit was a masterpiece? Read

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Award-winning Film Editor Graham Young has covered the Midlandsý radio and TV scene for two decades. The father of three is also the Mailýs reviewer of pubs, parks, family days out and chips and a keen photographer.

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