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Film Review: Haywire

rated 15 ***

AS THE Oscar-winning director of Traffic in 2001 – when he was also nominated for Erin Brockovich – professor’s son Steven Soderbergh is clearly one of Hollywood’s smartest talents.Read

Film Review: J. Edgar

rated 15 ***

IT almost reads as if Clint Eastwood has made a movie about a spoof X Factor group called Jedgar.Read

Pub Review: Hunters Moon, 220 Coleshill Road, Hodge Hill B36 8BE. 0121 749 2595

****

WITH Steven Spielberg’s War Horse movie opening today, where better to try than a Hungry Horse pub.Read

Film Review: Margin Call

rated 15 ****

IF YOU’VE ever been fired or know someone who has or is possibly about to be, then the first 15 minutes of this new movie will send huge shivers down your spine.Read

Walk in the Park: Five Ways Community Park in Birmingham

MANY cities have what might be termed their own Chinatown or Little Italy.Read

Film Review: The Darkest Hour

rated 12A **

EMILE Hirsch has got good form as someone trying to survive against the odds, as anyone who saw him in Sean Penn’s masterful Into the Wild (2007) will testify.Read

Film Review: War Horse

rated 12A ****

STEVEN Spielberg says he doesn’t agonise intellectually over which movies to make – they just find him.Read

Film Review: Shame

rated 18 ***

STEVE McQueen won the Golden Camera award at Cannes for his debut film Hunger in 2008, rounded off later with the Most Promising Newcomer award at the 2009 Baftas.Read

Days Out: Sculpture Trail, University of Birmingham

UNIVERSITIES often get on with their business quietly and efficiently and you might not take much notice of them.Read

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Renaming BRMB as Free Radio Birmingham a 'sad day' says ex-station chief

The former chief of BRMB has described the renaming of the radio station to Free Radio Birmingham as a "sad day". Read

Film Review: Mother and Child

rated 15 *****

ANNETTE Bening has had three best actress Oscar nominations and one for best supporting actress, too.Read

Walk in the Park: Beacon Park, Lichfield

IF THERE’S one thing we can confidently predict this year, it’s that before the Queen’s Golden Jubilee and the London Olympics arrive, 2012 will have ‘gone down’ in history as the third coming of Titanic.Read

Film Review: The Iron Lady

rated 12A *****

ON MAY 3, 1979, Margaret Thatcher famously won her first General Election – and then lasted 11½ years at No 10 to become Britain’s longest serving Prime Minister of the 20th Century.Read

Film Reviews: We Have A Pope (PG) * * * An African Election (PG) * * *

JUST when you thought 2012 wasn’t going to be an election year, along come two movies at once to prove you wrong.Read

Film Review: Goon

rated 15

THE first week of January is always one of the best for new movies as The King’s Speech proved last year and The Iron Lady and Mother and Child are doing likewise in 2012.Read

Days Out: Coventry Transport Museum, Millenium Place

IT’S FIVE years since we visited this brilliant museum dedicated to the history of cycling, motoring and other means of getting from A to B.Read

Movies: Graham Young's Films of the Year 2011.

GRAHAM YOUNG reviews the highs and lows of 2011 at the cinema.Read

Film Review: The Lady

rated 12A ***

JOHN Boorman made a 1995 film called Beyond Rangoon, in which Patricia Arquette played a doctor called Laura Bowman.Read

Films: Vote for the Birmingham Mail Family Film Award in the sixth annual Richard Attenborough Regional Film Awards.

VOTING has opened in the sixth annual Richard Attenborough UK Regional Film Awards.Read