http://www.birminghammail.net/authors/ Authors en-gb http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/dvd-reviews/2008/07/05/the-bucket-list-12-97319-21274731/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/dvd-reviews/2008/07/05/the-bucket-list-12-97319-21274731/ RE the AC/DC reference above. Swap blood for cliches and if, you want 'em, you've got 'em! http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/dvd-reviews/2008/07/05/there-will-be-blood-15-97319-21274732/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/dvd-reviews/2008/07/05/there-will-be-blood-15-97319-21274732/ THIRTY years ago this autumn, AC/DC released a seminal rock album called If You Want Blood You've Got It. http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/film-reviews/2008/07/04/film-review-hancock-15-97319-21263778/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/film-reviews/2008/07/04/film-review-hancock-15-97319-21263778/ FORTY years and a week after Birmingham-born comedy star Tony Hancock committed suicide, Hollywood's box office champ Will Smith is back... as a booze-riddled star with the same name. http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/birmingham-days-out/2008/07/04/a-walk-in-the-park-moseley-park-97319-21263713/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/birmingham-days-out/2008/07/04/a-walk-in-the-park-moseley-park-97319-21263713/ IT IS, quite simply, Birmingham's secret park. http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/film-reviews/2008/07/04/film-review-kung-fu-panda-pg-97319-21263780/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/film-reviews/2008/07/04/film-review-kung-fu-panda-pg-97319-21263780/ FORGET KFC... the new initials in town are KFP. http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/film-reviews/2008/07/04/film-review-the-mist-15-97319-21263781/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/film-reviews/2008/07/04/film-review-the-mist-15-97319-21263781/ IS TRUTH stranger than fiction? http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/birmingham-days-out/2008/07/04/enjoy-a-feeling-of-days-gone-by-97319-21263717/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/birmingham-days-out/2008/07/04/enjoy-a-feeling-of-days-gone-by-97319-21263717/ Today's column was going to feature The Public, the new £54 million attraction in West Bromwich. http://www.birminghammail.net/lifestyle/food-and-drink/2008/07/03/harvester-solihull-stratford-road-97319-21222024/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/lifestyle/food-and-drink/2008/07/03/harvester-solihull-stratford-road-97319-21222024/ EIGHTEEN months after the former Jeffersons reopened as a Harvester, we returned to see how it was getting on. http://www.birminghammail.net/lifestyle/food-and-drink/2008/07/03/southside-fish-bar-bristol-road-south-rubery-97319-21222028/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/lifestyle/food-and-drink/2008/07/03/southside-fish-bar-bristol-road-south-rubery-97319-21222028/ I'VE never been to a chip shop before and found nobody serving for more than FIVE minutes! http://www.birminghammail.net/news/birmingham-news/2008/07/01/city-artist-pogus-caesar-s-best-work-in-focus-97319-21208733/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:14:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/news/birmingham-news/2008/07/01/city-artist-pogus-caesar-s-best-work-in-focus-97319-21208733/ BIRMINGHAM photographer and filmmaker Pogus Caesar will be celebrating his 20-year career at Wolverhampton’s Light House arts centre tomorrow. http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/dvd-reviews/2008/06/28/the-other-boleyn-girl-15-97319-21202671/ Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/dvd-reviews/2008/06/28/the-other-boleyn-girl-15-97319-21202671/ AFTER a 2003 BBC production covered simila r ground, here comes another BBC-backed version of the same story, this time starring Natalie Portman (Anne), Scarlett Johansson (Mary) and Australian-born Hulk star Eric Bana - who never quite convinces as Henry Tudor. http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/dvd-reviews/2008/06/28/be-kind-rewind-12-97319-21202667/ Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/dvd-reviews/2008/06/28/be-kind-rewind-12-97319-21202667/ THIS Jack Black film about staff in a video shop making their own movies to replace the blanks on the shelves is very, very self-indulgent. You might even hate it. http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/dvd-reviews/2008/06/28/diary-of-the-dead-18-97319-21202668/ Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/dvd-reviews/2008/06/28/diary-of-the-dead-18-97319-21202668/ VETERAN filmmaker George A Romero is back with his fifth zombie feature since he rattled off Night of the Living Dead in 1968. http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/dvd-reviews/2008/06/28/the-bank-job-15-97319-21202670/ Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/dvd-reviews/2008/06/28/the-bank-job-15-97319-21202670/ AUSTRALIAN-born director Roger Donaldson already has three of my favourite movies on his CV - No Way Out, Thirteen Days and The World's Fastest Indian. http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/dvd-reviews/2008/06/28/the-water-horse-legend-of-the-deep-pg-97319-21202672/ Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/dvd-reviews/2008/06/28/the-water-horse-legend-of-the-deep-pg-97319-21202672/ BASED on the book by Dick King-Smith (Babe) and made by the producers of The Lord of the Rings, children should enjoy this new take on the Loch Ness monster legend. http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/birmingham-days-out/2008/06/27/brush-with-burlesque-97319-21162132/ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/birmingham-days-out/2008/06/27/brush-with-burlesque-97319-21162132/ IRISH artist Terry Bradley is set to visit Birmingham next week at the launch of an exhibition of his highly sought after paintings. http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/birmingham-days-out/2008/06/27/give-grandad-more-credit-97319-21162139/ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/birmingham-days-out/2008/06/27/give-grandad-more-credit-97319-21162139/ WHILE Stratford upon Avon has rightly earned an international reputation for the quality of its Shakespearean attractions, Lichfield is no less an attractive place to visit. http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/film-reviews/2008/06/27/the-edge-of-love-15-97319-21162531/ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/film-reviews/2008/06/27/the-edge-of-love-15-97319-21162531/ THIS wartime drama is supposed to be centred on poet Dylan Thomas and his mysterious appeal to women. http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/birmingham-days-out/2008/06/27/a-walk-in-the-park-old-square-priory-queensway-97319-21162131/ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/birmingham-days-out/2008/06/27/a-walk-in-the-park-old-square-priory-queensway-97319-21162131/ TO the uninitiated, Old Square is just a roundabout linking the Minories with one of Birmingham's two queue-prone city centre Post Offices. http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/film-reviews/2008/06/27/wanted-18-97319-21162532/ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/film-reviews/2008/06/27/wanted-18-97319-21162532/ EVERY so often an action film redefines the rules for the next generation of filmmakers to aspire to.