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Film Review: Conan The Barbarian (15) **

HE’S ECONOMICAL with his words, but Conan gets to the point: “I live, I love, I slay and I am content”.Read

Film Review: Spy Kids: All the Time in the World 4D (PG) *

AS WELL as collecting your 3D glasses (if you haven’t saved your own pair already), you’ll need a scratch and sniff card to try to make the most of this ‘4D aromascope’ experience.Read

Film Review: The Skin I Live In (15) *****

THERE’S no other major country like Spain that is dominated so much by one film director.Read

Film Review: Cowboys & Aliens (12A) ***

JAMES Bond meets Indiana Jones on a John Ford landscape beneath a Spielbergian sky.Read

Days Out: Few hours spent living like royalty

AFTER the week from hell with the nationwide riots, where could we go to restore our faith in Great Britain?Read

A Walk in the Park: Stechford Village Green

ONE OF the most disappointing things about the unjustifiable Birmingham riots last week was the criminals’ obvious lack of care for the environment.Read

Film Review: The Inbetweeners Movie (15) ***

HARRISON Ford’s trailer in Cowboys & Aliens probably cost more to make than this Inbetweeners’ E4 TV spin-off.Read

Film Review: The Guard (15) ***

BRENDAN Gleeson is a towering Irish actor as The General and In Bruges have already proved.Read

Film Review: Les Arbitres/The Referees (15) ***

FROM a police outrider guiding the officials’ vehicle into the bowels of a stadium to the nervous pre-match rituals in the dressing room to the stress in the middle of the pitch, The Referees is no ordinary movie.Read

Chung Ying Cantonese restaurants set to celebrate 30th anniversary

HIS NAME’S Wong, James Wong – and he’s got a licence to entertain you with food.Read

Film Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes (12A) *****

THIS IS, by some distance, the most exciting action adventure of the year.Read

Days Out: Hatton Farm Village and Country World

SOMETIMES the simple things in life give you the most pleasure.Read

Film Review: Project Nim (12A) ****

THE timing of this extraordinary documentary could not have been better.Read

Film Review: The Devil's Double (18) ***

NEW Zealand director Lee Tamahori sealed his reputation with Once Were Warriors (1994) on his way to making a mess of Pierce Brosnan’s last 007 film, Die Another Day (2002).Read

Film Review: The Smurfs (U) ***

I HAD a lucky escape when I popped along to see the latest film for young children.Read

A Walk in the Park: The River Tame in Witton

GIVEN the relative lack of rain we’ve had this year, there’s one thing which might really surprise you about this stretch of the River Tame.Read

Birmingham's 3D cinema to lose IMAX branding

BIRMINGHAM’S biggest cinema is set to lose its IMAX branding – and reopen under a new name as a state-of-the-art digital screen.Read

August is the new word for autumn in Birmingham

AUGUST is the new word for autumn in Birmingham – with many of the city’s trees already starting to turn from green to gold.Read

Cheap as Chips: Black Country Living Museum, Tipton Road, Dudley, Dy1 4SQ

THIS wonderful museum has two chippies – Hobbs, which still cooks chips in beef dripping, and this original shop which has now switched to vegetable oil for diet crazy punters.Read

Film Review: Super 8 (12A) ****

STEVEN Spielberg is the writer of children’s adventure thriller The Goonies and the director of ET.Read