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Graham Young

Mission: Impossible III (12A)

GET YOUR popcorn ready - but pass the sick bucket! The underlying flavour of the year's first 'tentpole' summer blockbuster is that agent Ethan Hunt is deliriously engaged to Julia, who resembles his real life partner, Katie Holmes. Read

Confetti (15)

BIRMINGHAM-born director Debbie Isitt comes up trumps with this eagerlyawaited and very funny three-for-one wedding comedy. Read

Three (15)

AS I left this screening, the cinema foyer PA was playing The Drifters singing: 'Saturday night at the movies, who cares what picture we see...'. Read

The Magician (15)

UNDERNEATH his hat, writer-director-star Scott Ryan often looks like David Beckham. Read

Love + Hate (15)

ALTHOUGH this gritty film is set in an unnamed northern town, Blackburn looks very distinctive on screen. Read

Boyden's back on the airwaves

MALCOLM Boyden is heading back to BBC WM - two years after the Mail revealed the homegrown golden boy had been sacked. Read

Comic on op that nearly killed him

VETERAN entertainer Malcolm Stent today declared he was as good as new - three months after nearly dying following a "simple operation hit by unforeseen complications". Read

16 Blocks (12A)

ALMOST everyone loves a good Bruce Willis film - and 16 Blocks is easily his best starring role since The Sixth Sense back in the final weeks of the last century. Read

Freedomland (15)

JULIANNE Moore gives this film everything she's got and it's still not enough to save it! Read

The Squid And The Whale (15)

BERNARD Berkman (a career-best Jeff Daniels) wrote an acclaimed novel many years ago. Read

Slither (15)

THIS comedy-horror doesn't promise much considering writer-director James Gunn wrote the execrable Scooby Doo 2. Read

Brokeback Mountain (15)

ROBBED of the statuette for Best Picture at this year's Oscars, Ang Lee's bold, daring and heartbreaking love story, based on a 30-page novella by Annie Proulx, is a masterpiece. Read

The Producers (12)

SUSAN Stroman's all-singing, all-dancing musical extravaganza is almost 100 per cent recycled from the award-winning stage show, itself based on Mel Brooks's zany 1968 comedy starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. Read

The Libertine (18)

JOHNNY Depp lends a touch of class to Laurence Dunmore's feature film debut, a debauched yet rather grim costume romp adapted for the screen by Stephen Jeffreys from his own stage play. Read

American Dreamz (12A)

IN 1968, Andy Warhol famously declared, "In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes." Read

Eight Below (PG)

DISNEY'S best live action movie in memory is an engrossing thriller for movie lovers of all ages to enjoy. Read

Pierrepoint (15)

TIMOTHY Spall cements his place as one of Britain's foremost acting talents with this fabulous character study of Britain's most notorious hangman who took the lives of killers like Derek Bentley, Ruth Ellis and many Nazis. Read

Rollin' With The Nines (18)

HONOURED with the award as Best UK Feature at the 2005 Raindance Film Festival, Julian Gilbey's gritty drama explores the hardships of life on the streets of contemporary London. Read

Mistress Of Spices (12A)

SET in San Francisco but mostly filmed in The Isle of Man, this is the latest movie from Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha. Read

Tristan + Isolde (15)

THE team behind this medieval romance have some very high octane hits on their CVs. 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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