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Graham Young

Graham Young

Film Review: Straw Dogs (18) * * * *

A GROUP of cocksure, lazy roofers are standing on top of an outbuilding.Read

Film Review: Machine Gun Preacher (15) * *

IT HASN’T been a good week for German directors.Read

Film Review: Anonymous (12A) *

THE idea that William Shakespeare (Rafe Spall) might not have written his plays is not exactly new.Read

Days Out: Bancroft Cruisers in Stratford

WITH the new movie Anonymous claiming that William Shakespeare didn’t write his own plays, it felt like the perfect time to revisit Stratford-upon-Avon.Read

Give an hour campaign: How you can help others use the web

BRITISH Summer Time ends early tomorrow morning and everyone gets an extra hour in bed. But computer users are being urged give the hour back and use it to encourage others to shed their fears of new technology and get on to keyboards.Read

Days Out: Rays Farm in Billingsley

HE was created by an American visitor to Edgbaston in 1818.Read

Walk in the Park: The Woodland Play Area at The Radleys Park, Sheldon

SOMETIMES in life you can find the finest of things in the most unexpected of places – which is why it always pays to keep an open mind.Read

Film Review: The Adventures of Tintin - The Secret of the Unicorn 3D (PG) * * * *

NOT since Hook in 1991 has director Steven Spielberg taken a classic story and turned it into what could be called an original family film.Read

Film review: The Help (12A) * * *

WITH its subject matter about black maids raising white children for the rich during the Civil Rights Era of 1960s’ Mississippi, this is a thought-provoking film you’ll want to like before you’ve even bought your popcorn.Read

Movie fans give the thumbs up to Tintin at Birmingham's new Giant Screen Cinema at Millennium Point

MOVIE fans gave a big thumbs up to Steven Spielberg’s new 3D blockbuster Tintin when it opened Birmingham’s new Giant Screen Cinema at Millennium Point.Read

Birmingham's Giant Screen Cinema to open with Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin

BIRMINGHAM’S all-new Giant Screen Cinema will open for business two days early on Monday – with Steven Spielberg’s latest movie.Read

Days Out: Arley Arboretum in Worcestershire

ONE of the ways I judge our Days Out adventures is to imagine how I would feel if visiting from abroad.Read

Film review: Paranormal Activity (15) *

HAD this been the first movie in the series I might have been tempted to give its chillier moments three stars.Read

Film review: Monte Carlo (PG) * * *

BRITISH comedy star Catherine Tate has proved her acting credentials in quite a few movies now.Read

Film review: Contagion (12A) Verdict * * * *

STEVEN Soderbergh’s all-star thriller about a disease rapidly spreading around the world is a stunningly-made film guaranteed to send hypochondriacs into a frenzy.Read

Walk In The Park: Eliot Street Recreation Ground, Nechells

CAN you guess which area this week’s park is in?Read

Watch: Birmingham's most famous independent chippy, is to open in the evenings at last

AT LAST! Birmingham’s most famous independent chip shop is set to open in the evenings.Read

Walk In The Park: Eastside City Park, Birmingham

I HAD an hour to kill the other morning during a visit to Birmingham city centre.Read

Film Review: The Three Musketeers (12A) * * *

THE cry ‘All for one and one for all’ remains one of cinema’s great taglines, but a more pertinent label for this movie might be ‘All for what?’.Read

Film Review: Dolphin Tale (U) * * * *

IT’S NOT half term for another week, but here’s a family-friendly film which deserves to be a smash hit when the schools break up.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.