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Graham Young

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Opera Tosca to be shown at Giant Screen Cinema in Birmingham

THE Royal Opera’s version of Puccini’s Tosca is set to be the first ‘alternative content’ presentation at Millennium Point’s new Giant Screen Cinema.Read

Days Out and Walk in the Park: The Tolkien Trail and Moseley Bog.

ISN’T IT lovely to show people around our fair city when the opportunity arises?Read

Film Review: 50/50 (15) * * *

rated 15 ***

SETH Rogan is like a buffoon from your senior school days in the third year (sorry kids, year nine).Read

Film Review: Dream House (15) * * *

rated 15 ***

IS DANIEL Craig being hit by the regular curse of James Bond?Read

Film Review: My Week With Marilyn (15) * * * * *

rated 15 *****

NOT since Colin Firth’s future Oscar-winning hit The King’s Speech was released in the first week of January has there been such a compelling British movie as this.Read

Film Review: Take Shelter (15) * *

rated 15 **

IF YOU like to see movies where you want to come out at the end with a smile on your face, be wary of buying a ticket for this one.Read

Moseley cafe Hungry Hobbit threatened with legal action by JRR Tolkein's estate

OH, CRUMBS! A Birmingham cafe trading under the name of the Hungry Hobbit has been threatened with legal action if it doesn’t rebrand.Read

Film Review: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (12A) * * *

rated 12A ***

STEPHENIE Meyer’s Twilight saga first launched on screen in December 2008 and this fourth instalment is the best yet.Read

Film Reviews: Justice (15) * * * and Trespass (15) *

rated 15 ***

TO PARAPHRASE Robert Plant in his Led Zeppelin heyday: It’s been a long time since Nicolas Cage rock and rolled.Read

Film Review: Immortals (15) * * *

rated 15 ***

THERE are so many pitch battles and different shades of black and gold in this movie that you’ll wonder if Indian-born director Tarsem Singh is a Wolverhampton Wanderers fan.Read

Film Review: Arthur Christmas (U) * * * *

rated U ****

MAKING a good Christmas film should be as easy as eating turkey.Read

Water levels in Edgbaston Reservoir are shrinking thanks to the lack of rainfall this year.

WITH vast expanses of shale on show, this shocking picture of Edgbaston Reservoir could have been taken at the height of a mid-summer water shortage.Read

Phantom Flan Flinger unmasked in Birmingham Tiswas reunion.

PLATES of foam were on the menu when Tiswas stars gathered at a Birmingham pub for the unmasking of the legendary Phantom Flan Flinger.Read

Cheap as Chips: The Pot and Fin, 48 Brook St, Warwick CV34 4BL

*****

NOT since May 27 have I awarded five stars to a high street palace.Read

Film Review: Wuthering Heights (15) * *

rated 15 **

FISH Tank director Andrea Arnold has made a bold decision to rework Emily Brontë’s 1847 gothic romance / horror novel in such stark fashion.Read

Film Review: The Awakening (15) * * * *

rated 15 ****

YOU are sitting in a pub and somebody asks you to name a fine young British actress.Read

Days Out: Lost in Lace, in the Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

AS THE dark nights cut in, now is a good time to start looking indoors again for some great Days Out ideas.Read

Walk In The Park: Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Glasshouses

THIS weekend, many people will be devoting their time to praying for those who gave their lives for our freedom.Read

What's On: Two Minute Guide to the Week.

A REMEMBRANCE Sunday service will be held in Centenary Square.Read

Film review: In Time (12A) * * *

IT’S been 15 months since we had a really good science fiction thriller – Christopher Nolan’s Inception.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.