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Graham Young

A Walk In The Park: Kingstanding Beacon

NEXT time anyone tells you that Birmingham is a 'concrete jungle' send them to the top of this mount. Read

I felt like Tarzan on treetop walk

IF YOU were never much of a tree climber, help is suddenly at hand. Read

High School Musical comes to Brum

BIRMINGHAM has a new queen of the stage. Solihull’s Lorna Want came home last night and revelled in her starring role at the heart of the phenomenally successful musical. Read

Timber Falls (18)

WHEN a horror film gratuitously begins in the way that most in the genre end, you know there's not much to aim for in the rest of the story. Especially when Mike (Josh Randall) and Sheryl (Brianna Brown) go for walkies towards the same falls in rural West Virginia. Read

Indana Jones

Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (12a)

HENRY Ford once said his customers could have a car in any colour... 'so long as it's black'. Read

Dangerous Parking (18)

Graham Young reviews Dangerous Parking. Read

Cassandra's Dream (12a)

WOODY Allen's latest film takes its name from a boat named after a greyhound. Read

A Walk In The Park: Babbs Mill Nature Reserve, Kingshurst

AFTER my visit to the magnificent Kingstanding Rec last week uncovered too much filth for comfort, I had a similar experience at Babbs Mill. Read

Another top draw museum

THERE'S another secret hideway to enthrall your children. Read

It's fun to visit the Famous Five

THE 'credit crunch' is beginning to have a major impact on families everywhere. Read

Crossroads Fish Bar, King's Road / Finchley Road, Kingstanding

I'M glad I tested our latest reader-recommended shop off-peak otherwise I'd probably still be trying to park my car near to this difficult junction. Read

The Hollybush, Gorcott Hill, Nr Ullenhall

FOR reasons which will become much clearer in a future column, this review began in Moseley where I'd arranged to meet two friends. Read

New radio service for gay community

BIRMINGHAM is to get a brand new on-line radio service and website aimed at the ’gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender’ community. The Digbeth-based local, national and internationally-available service will be called GADIO 1 and include a chat room with music, news, fashion, travel and entertainment. Read

Bee Movie (U)

THIS DreamWorks' animation really is a B-movie so it should only be seen by uncritical younger viewers. Dazzled by the bright colours, they'll hardly notice the weak script. Co-writer Jerry Seinfeld voices Barry B Benson, a high-flying college graduate who is set for a boring life with Honex, his hive's honey-making corporation. Taking a trip into the outside world with his fellow 'pollen jocks', Barry is dazzled by the flower box of florist Vanessa Bloome (Renee Zellweger) before he ends up having to try to save the bee world. Read

Closing The Ring (12)

WHAT might well turn out to be Lord Richard Attenborough's 12th and last movie as a director isn't one of his best works by any means. Read

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (18)

WHEN is mass murder by throat slitting politically acceptable? Read

Highfield House reduced to rubble

Slowly but surely, Hall Green’s finest residential home has been reduced to a pile of broken bricks. Read

Smart People (15)

WITH a title like this, you'd think that the one thing Smart People would be is smart. Read

Shutter (15)

SET in Japan, this is a laboured and Americanised remake of a 2004 Thai thriller. Read

Outpost (18)

LIKE Neil Marshall's Dog Soldiers before it, this is a 'cheap-as-chips' military horror film made north of the border with surprisingly good results. 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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