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Graham Young

Graham Young

After 15 years of hard work, I've struck gold

IT’S BEEN a long road for Gary Smith. Read

Brideshead Revisited

FIND out what the Birmingham Mail's Film Editor thought of new film Brideshead Revisited. Read

Appaloosa

IT’S 1882 and the small New Mexico mining community of Appaloosa is being controlled by no-nonsense rancher Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons) who doesn’t mind topping the local sheriff. Read

How To Lose Friends And Alienate People

GRAHAM Young reviews the film starring Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst and Gillian Anderson. Read

88 Minutes

FOR THE second week running, after Righteous Kill, there’s a new Al Pacino thriller on offer that’s directed by Jon Avnet. Read

Fly Me To The Moon

THE first computer-generated animation to have been specfically made for 3D will appeal mostly to children under eight who will unconditionally accept that three flies really could have been buzzing around on board the Apollo 11 moon flight. Read

A Walk In The Park: The Playing Fields at Holders Lane, Moseley

ONE OF the drawbacks of living in Birmingham is that if you don’t live in a tower block there are so few places where you can actually see it. Read

The forecast is for howls of laughter

SOME family adventures cost a fortune and don’t always live up to expectations. Read

Yardley Fish Bar, A45 Coventry Road, Yardley

THIS CHIPPY has such a sunny aspect, any self-respecting solar panel salesman with a brain would surely offer the owner a couple of cost-price samples to heat the fryers just for the publicity value. Read

For plenty of family fun, cut to the Chase

IT CAN take years to create a reputation which can then be lost overnight. Read

A Walk In The Park: New Spring Street, Winson Green

WINSON Green is famous for its prison. And City Hospital. Read

Taken

FED up with the dull summer weather, the economic gloom and rising prices? Chances are you need a tension-easing shot of Taken, a gloriously-silly escapist thriller with Ballymena’s finest Liam Neeson on top form. Read

Swing Vote

KEVIN Costner’s A-listing expired a long time ago, but I still find him a watchable screen presence in a Roger Moore kind of way. Read

Death Race

IF YOU were asked to cast an actor for a film in which criminals have to race against each other to the death, husky-voiced Transporter star Jason Statham would be your perfect choice. Read

Righteous Kill (15)

Read Graham Young's review of the film starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. Read

Pegg’s premiere in Brum

SIMON Pegg’s eagerly-anticipated new film How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is to have a charity premiere in Birmingham next Tuesday in aid of Cure Leukaemia. Read

Doddy needs YOU

Listen to our interview with comedy legend Ken Dodd ahead of his Birmingham show. Read

Haunch Lane Chippy, Haunch Lane, Billesley

IF SEEING one member of staff sweeping up was a good sign, even better news was to come. Read

The She Found Me

IT’S BEEN ten long years since Helen Hunt won an Oscar for starring opposite Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets. Read

The Wave

IF YOU like to go to the movies purely to be entertained, and not to think, stay well clear of The Wave. 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.

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