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Days Out: Bewdley Museum

THE stonework exterior of Bewdley Museum is a majestic sight if you stop to look at it closely.Read

Film Review: First Night (15) * * *

ACTING is a funny old business – as Richard E Grant would know.Read

Film Review: Real Steel (15) * * *

STEVEN Spielberg has built much of his career on the way young children can look up in awe at things which are bigger than them.Read

Two Minute Guide To The Week: Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds to be screened in Birmingham church

THE Jameson Cult Film Club is to present a nerve-jangling Halloween screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 classic movie The Birds in St Paul’s Church, St Paul’s Square, Hockley B3 1QZ.Read

Film Review: Tyrannosaur (18) * *

EVERY time I see a British film like this, I wonder what planet its makers are on.Read

Film Review: Footloose (15) * * *

ONE can understand the purpose of last week’s re-release of Lion King, even without Disney trying to make extra cash by releasing it in pointless 3D.Read

Giant Screen Cinema: The new name for Birmingham's biggest cinema

THE new cinema screen replacing Birmingham’s IMAX attraction will leave nothing to the imagination when it opens later this month.Read

Walk In The Park: St Margaret's Recreation Ground in Ward End

DAWN has been my favourite time of the day for as long as I can remember.Read

Film Review: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (15) * *

SUCH is the reputation of Mexican filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro that it’s his name standing out on the credits for this movie and not that of Canadian debut director Troy Nixey.Read

What's On: Two Minute Guide to the Week for October 7, 2011.

PATRICK DUFFY (aka Bobby Ewing) will break from filming Dallas to visit the National Motorhome & Caravan Show at the NEC from 10am on Tuesday.Read

Film Review: Johnny English (PG) * * *

EIGHT years after spoofing James Bond with Johnny English, Rowan Atkinson returns to the character with only one thing on his mind.Read

Days Out: St John's House Museum in Warwick

WITH so many of Birmingham’s museums now charging admission, here’s a good one that’s still free to visit.Read

Film Review: Shark Night 3D (15) No stars!

FILM critic Mark Kermode’s new book The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex (Random House, £11.99) is an understandable rant about the decline in the standard of viewer behaviour.Read

Film Review: The Lion King (U) * * * *

AFTER cinemas have spent around £100,000 per screen in order to show 3D movies, there’s been a dearth of product recently.Read

Film Review Midnight in Paris (12A) * * *

AFTER shooting many of his post-2000 movies in London, Woody Allen introduces Paris.Read

Film Review: What's Your Number? (15) * * *

GIVEN that actress Anna Faris has starred in Brokeback Mountain and Scary Movie, you could say that her career has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous.Read

What's On: Two Minute Guide to the Week

IF YOU’VE still got some money left and can’t face the thought of another British winter like the last one then head to the A Place In The Sun show which is on at the NEC daily from today until Sunday (10am-5pm).Read

Days Out: Heritage Motor Centre in Warwickshire

YEAR round, there’s always a warm welcome waiting for visitors at this vast museum preserving our proud motoring heritage.Read

Film Review: Killer Elite (15) * *

WHEN I first met Clive Owen two decades ago and had lunch with him on the back of a TV drama location bus in Meriden, I doubt either of us would have dreamed he might one day star in a film alongside Robert De Niro – and have had his name ahead of the Oscar-winning star in the credits, too.Read

Film Review: Red State (18) * * * *

HOW often have you put the TV news on at night and thought to yourself: “The world has gone mad.”Read