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Graham Young

Kelly's chasing £1m TV prize

A FORMER Birmingham lap dancer tonight continues her quest to win up to £1 million on TV. Read

All The King's Men (12A)

STEVEN Zaillian's new version of Robert Penn Warren's 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning morality tale still strikes a chord. Read

A Good Year (12A)

THE late John Thaw won ten BAFTA and National Television Award nominations during his glittering career. Read

Step Up (12A)

FOLLOWING the hot moves of Fame, Dirty Dancing and Save The Last Dance, Step Up is a familiar fairy-tale of dancing passions and impossible young dreams, which succeeds despite its slavish adherence to the conventions of the genre. Read

The Guardian (12A)

THE landlocked people of Birmingham have always supported the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Read

The Last Kiss (15)

AFTER successive Oscar wins with the script for Million Dollar Baby and then as the writer-director of Crash, Paul Haggis is now Hollywood's hottest talent. Read

Marie Antoinette (12A)

MARIE Antoinette is the pick of the bunch this week. Read

Barnyard (U)

BARNYARD is the latest in a long line of safety-first animal animations this year, from Ice Age 2 (out on DVD on Monday) to Over the Hedge, The Wild and Open Season. Read

The Grudge 2 (15)

THE GRUDGE 2 is beginning to cause me to have my own grudge against Japanese director Takashi Shiizu who has now twice remade his originals and is working on even more. Read

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (18)

OPENING merely as a franchise expander, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning comes armed with the year's most visceral violence. Read

The Da Vinci Code (12)

RON Howard's adaptation of Dan Brown's bestseller is an enjoyably-daft celluloid version of its pulp fiction source. Read

The Thief Lord (PG)

BASED on Cornelia Funke's prize-winning novel, two boys are placed in the care of wicked aunt Esther (Carole Boyd) and uncle Max (Bob Goody). Read

Imagine Me & You (12)

IF YOU'RE in the mood for an insubstantial but light-hearted romantic comedy with a sexy twist, look no further than this overlooked World Cup antidote. Read

The History Boys (15)

CIRCUMSTANCES prevented me from seeing The Rep's recent sold-out, two-week run of Alan Bennett's play of the same name - not that I'd have been rushing to spoil the movie in any case. Read

Open Season (PG)

ANOTHER month, another animation featuring loads of animals. Read

The Aryan Couple (12A)

A WWII drama opening in 1944 Hungary, the film's initially well-photographed impact quickly wears off when you hear the Germans speaking with rather clipped English accents. Read

Idlewild (15)

SOME 'black' films are annoyingly angry, violent and come served with giant shoulder chips. Read

New Police Story (15)

THE only surprises about this Man With the Golden Gun-flavoured movie are that it has taken two years to get here and only Vue Star City is showing it. Read

Stick It (PG)

THIS is a well-choreographed movie about overcoming adversity in gymnastics. Read

The Devil Wears Prada (PG)

HOLLYWOOD comedies don't come much better than this. 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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