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Film Interview: Jim Carrey

IN A world full of famine, war and economic despair, Jim Carrey reckons he has found the secret to human happiness – adopting a penguin.Read

Film Review: Captain America - The First Avenger (12A) *****

TRADITIONAL Second World War thrillers meet the superhero era head on in Captain America – and the result is the first must-see blockbuster of the summer.Read

Film Review: Horrid Henry - The Movie 3D (U) **

AFTER the lamentable Horrible Bosses last week, Horrid Henry is now in cinemas to bring a whole new meaning to the term ‘annus horribilis’.Read

Film Review: Zookeeper (PG) ***

I’M NO apologist for the dumbing down of Hollywood and the fact that it seems to be having an increasingly poor year after The King’s Speech, Black Swan, The Fighter and True Grit gave us such an early rush of blood to the head.Read

Film Review: Arrietty (U) ****

BEFORE you rush to see Horrid Henry, insist your children see Arrietty first.Read

AWARDS: A record nine Birmingham parks now have an official Green Flag.

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Film Review: Cars 2 in 3D (U) ****

IT will be five years next week since the original Cars movie roared into cinemas and took us for a drive along Route 66.Read

Film: Aaliyah Live in Amsterdam - exclusive premiere

INSPIRED by Whitney Houston, 16-year-old superstar-in-the-making Aaliyah describes herself as ‘‘a hip hop R&B singer... with jazzy overtones’’.Read

Film Review: Beginners (15) **

MEMO to self: don’t get too excited the next time Christopher Plummer stars in a movie with a dog.Read

Film Review: Horrible Bosses (15) No stars!

AS EVERYONE from the police to the government and executives at News International are discovering, there comes a point when the world finally says ‘‘enough’s enough’’.Read

Film Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (12A) 3D ****

AUTHOR JK Rowling hadn’t even written the last three books in her planned seven-part series when the first Harry Potter movie was leaving Kings Cross platform 9¾ in November, 2001.Read

Film Review: The Tree of Life (12A) ***

HOLLYWOOD has been preoccupied this year with delivering one instantly forgettable movie after another, particularly in the shallow comic book and below-the-belt comedy genres.Read

Film Review: Hobo With a Shotgun (18)

IT WILL be 20 years next June since the charismatic Blade Runner and Guinness ads star Rutger Hauer threw me out of an interview with him at the now demolished MGM Arcadian cinema.Read

FILM REVIEW: Sisters Kaiyah-Ellise Dove (Aged 9) and Kacey-Anais Dove (Aged 6) are left spellbound by the new Harry Potter film.

IT HAD parts that were exciting, funny, unexpected and scary and I couldn’t take my eyes off the screen!Read

Relive the Harry Potter phenomenon with the Birmingham Mail

THOUSANDS of Harry Potter lovers are set to burn the midnight oil tonight (THU 14) when the eighth and final movie in the franchise, The Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (12A) has its first public screenings from midnight.Read

Film Review: Trust (15) ****

KEEPING our inquisitive children safe online is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century – but it’s not a subject which Hollywood has tried to challenge head on. Until now.Read

Film Review: Super (18) **

THE strangest 18-certificate cinematic experience I’ve ever had was in the early 90s when a punk woman with tattoos and chains was preparing to feed her nine-month-old baby at the start of a screening of the seminal 1986 horror movie Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer.Read

Birmingham Mail reviews Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2

THAT the eighth and final Harry Potter movie should end where the series began on Platform 9¾ back in 2001 will not surprise any fans of the books.Read

Bollywood Film Review: Delhi Belly (15) ****

Flatmates Tashi (Imran), Arup (Vir) and Nitin (Kunaal) are buddies and partners in crime.Read

Film Review: Transformers - Dark of the Moon (12A) ***

IT’S A golden rule of this column never to reveal movie ‘spoilers’.Read