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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.