HomeAuthorsGraham Young

Graham Young

Graham Young

The Family Stone (PG)

THE Family Stone is a lot of hot air masquerading as a meet-the-folks comedy. Read

Get Rich Or Die Tryin' (15)

WE ALL make mistakes and Get Rich Or Die Tryin' is Jim Sheridan's. Read

Sons and Lovers (PG)

FORTY five years after Freddie Francis won the Oscar for best cinematography, Sons And Lovers is now out to buy on DVD for the first time. Read

Scary Movie 4 (15)

WHAT is Bill Pullman doing to his career? From starring in blockbusters like Independence Day and Sleepless in Seattle, the now 52-year-old New Yorker is currently lurching from last week's Alien Autopsy to today's 'cash for tickets' third sequel. Read

Shooting Dogs (15)

A YEAR after Don Cheadle's triple Oscar-nominated Hotel Rwanda recounted a chilling episode about UN impotence during the 1994 genocide, along comes another movie which does much the same thing. Read

An American Haunting (15)

IMAGINE a living nightmare where you find yourself trapped for 90 long minutes watching a cross between Demi Moore's Scarlet Letter, Joaquin Phoenix's The Village and Michael Douglas's The Ghost and the Darkness. Read

Take The Lead (12A)

FANS of the TV-led craze for dancing might well be tempted out to see this story based on the New York work of Pierre Dulaine. Read

Junebug (15)

THE name Amy Adams might not ring any loud bells, but the 30-year-old Italian-born actress is the 20th and final star from the 2006 Oscar nominations to appear on Midlands' screens. Read

King Kong (12)

KING Kong is director Peter Jackson's first film since his memorable, multi-Oscar winning The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Read

Lassie (PG)

LASSIE comes bounding back, six decades after the original 1943 movie Lassie Come Home starred Elizabeth Taylor and Roddy McDowall. Read

Ice Age 2 - The Meltdown (U)

THE TRUE test of any animation is whether adults can enjoy it at night without the kids. Read

Alien Autopsy (12A)

ANT and Dec, movie stars? Surely not after their appalling remake of The Likely Lads in 2002! Read

She's The Man (12A)

FORGET Cheaper by the Dozen 2, Big Momma's House 2 and current release Yours, Mine and Ours. Read

The Dark (15)

CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown might want to tax 4x4 cars off the road, but they remain the film industry's vehicle of choice. Read

Doom (15)

DOOM is based on a computer game about Marines investigating what has happened on a space station. Read

Cheaper By The Dozen 2 (PG)

CHEAPER By The Dozen 2 is director Adam Shankman's saccharine comedy sequel which pits the 14-strong family of the original film against a 10-strong rival brood. Read

Basic Instinct 2 (18)

IT only seems like the blink of a headlamp since lurid tabloid tales exposed football bad boy Stan Collymore's secret car park sex shame. Read

The Shaggy Dog (U)

DISNEY revives the comedy mutt movie with this half-baked story about a bearded Collie called Shaggy which has lived for 300 years. Read

Failure To Launch (12A)

EVEN allowing for The Rock's sci-fi mess Doom, released last December and out on DVD on Monday, few movie titles have ever dared to tempt fate as much as this one. Read

Yours, Mine & Ours (PG)

AFTER the 12 brats in Cheaper by the Dozen 2, here's 18 more courtesy of the director of Big Momma's House and Scooby Doo I & II director Raja Gosnell. 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.

Get involved

We want your local stories, videos & pics.