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Graham Young

Graham Young

Film Review: The Well Digger's Daughter

rated PG *****

MANON Des Sources star Daniel Auteuil has long been one of the best actors working in modern French cinema.Read

Review: Cinderella, at Birmingham Hippodrome.

*****

I CRICKED my neck on the day of this panto and every treatment I tried made it worse.Read

Film Review: The Silence (Das Letzte Schweigen)

rated 15 ****

MURDERS are abhorrent – but there will always be a silver screen fascination for why, when, where and how.Read

Film Review: Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

rated 12A *****

IT’S NOT James Bond, it’s not Jason Bourne and, 15 years after the original Mission: Impossible, I’m not even sure that it’s still Ethan Hunt.Read

Review: Cinderella at the Birmingham Hippodrome

*****

Graham Young reviews the Christmas pantomime, Cinderella, at the Birmingham HippodromeRead

Birmingham Dr Who star explains how he avoided the secrets of the Christmas Special

WHEN the nation sits down to watch the Christmas Day night special edition of Doctor Who eager to see what surprises are in store, star Arthur Darvill will be with them all the way.Read

Panto: Malcolm Stent's Robin Hood, Solihull Arts Complex. Verdict: ****

****

WHEN is a panto not a panto? Answer: when it’s Malcolm Stent’s 21st panto in successive years.Read

Pictures: Child star Esme takes to the stage in the Wizard Of Oz in Birmingham

SHE’S the youngest little munchkin to ever visit the Wizard of Oz – while starring with a Birmingham theatre group.Read

The Birmingham Mail says 'keep your hands off The Archers!'

The Archers is the world’s longest running serial with more than 16,500 episodes made since it began almost 61 years ago.Read

Urban Walk: Join the Mail's Mohini Howard on a taster walk.

THE Birmingham Mail’s Urban Walk columnist Mohini Howard will lead a special taster walk next week.Read

Days Out: Umberslade Farm, Butts Lane, Tanworth-in-Arden

MOST young children will get the chance to participate in a school Nativity play.Read

What's On: Two Minute Guide to the Week

CHRISTMAS Delights at Soho House, Handsworth, will give visitors the chance to see industrialist Matthew Boulton’s former home decorated with festive greenery and to discover some Christmas traditions of the past.Read

Cheap as Chips: Sliced potatoes from Birmingham's Frankfurt Christmas market

****

THOUSANDS are drawn inexorably towards the heart of town in December and the chance to slowly shuffle along a street jam packed with even more food stalls than previous markets.Read

Film Review: Another Earth

rated 12A ***

EARLIER this year, Lars von Trier’s overlong Melancholia almost bored me to tears as a mysterious new planet threatened to crash into our world.Read

Film Review: Puss in Boots

rated U ****

CATS might have nine lives, but they don’t always survive at the movies.Read

Film Review: New Year's Eve

rated 12A ****

IT’S the countdown to the biggest party of the year.Read

Film Review: The Deep Blue Sea

rated 15 ****

WHEN you have a filmmaker as individual as the 66-year-old Liverpudlian Terence Davies, you might wonder why he would choose a familiar film title.Read

Film Review: The Big Year

rated PG **

AT THEIR best, Steve Martin (The Man With Two Brains), Jack Black (School of Rock) and Owen Wilson (Marley & Me) have done some solid, silver screen comedy work.Read

VIDEO: Birmingham-made sitcom Weedkillers set to take Hollywood by storm

THE lack of family-friendly, 70s-style sitcoms on TV was no laughing matter for a group of comedy-loving friends.Read

Review: BRMB Live at the LG Arena

****

THE cream of the new wave of British pop put on a stunning show.Read

Author Profile

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.