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2007-12-31T21:43:00.001Z

Books - 2007

Sourcery (Terry Pratchett)
Enduring Love (Ian McEwan)
Northern Lights (Philip Pullman)
Making History (Stephen Fry)
The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
Mort (Terry Pratchett)
Grow Up (Keith Allen)
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (Raymond Carver)
The Circe Complex (Desmond Cory)
Equal Rites (Terry Pratchett)
Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser)
The Dark Tower V: Wolves Of The Calla (Stephen King)
The Light Fantastic (Terry Pratchett)
Tanner's Tiger (Lawrence Block)
The Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
The Colour Of Magic (Terry Pratchett

2007-12-31T21:42:00.000Z

Gigs - 2007

Chelsea Vs. Aston Villa, Stamford Bridge, London
Ocean Colour Scene at the Carling Academy, Birmingham
The Bootleg Beatles at the Birmingham NIA
From The Jam at the Carling Academy, Birmingham
Crowded House at the Birmingham NEC
The Festive Gift Fair at the Birmingham NEC
Ian Brown at the Carling Academy, Birmingham
Roger Hodgson at the Symphony Hall, Birmingham
The Rolling Stones at the O2 Arena, London
The Thirty Nine Steps at the Criterion Theatre, London
The Last Confession at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
Aston Villa Vs. Inter Milan, Villa Park, Birmingham
INXS at the Symphony Hall, Birmingham
The Midland Masters at the Birmingham NIA
The Who at the Birmingham NIA
From The Jam (Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler) at the Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton
Meatloaf at the Birmingham NEC
Hysteria at the Birmingham Rep
The Electric Cinema Film Orchestra at the Electric Cinema, Birmingham
Defending The Caveman at the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham
The Sugababes at the Birmingham NEC
The Fratellis at the Carling Academy, Birmingham
Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis at the Birmingham Rep
Amy Winehouse at the Carling Academy, Birmingham

2007-12-31T21:41:00.000Z

Movies - 2007

Paranoid Park (Dir. Gus Van Sant)
I Am Legend (Dir. Francis Lawrence)
We Own The Night (Dir. James Gray)
It's A Wonderful Life (Dir. Frank Capra)
Hitman (Dir. Xavier Gens)
Enchanted (Dir. Kevn Lima)
The Golden Compass (Dir. Chris Weitz)
August Rush (Dir. Kirsten Sheridan)
Fred Claus (Dir. David Dobkin)
The Nines (Dir. John August)
Shrooms (Dir. Paddy Breathnach)
Good Luck Chuck (Dir. Mark Helfrich)
Saw IV (Dir. Darren Lynn Bousman)
30 Days Of Night (Dir. David Slade)
The Lookout (Dir. Scott Frank)
Death At A Funeral (Dir. Frank Oz)
Eastern Promises (Dir. David Cronenberg)
Mr. Brooks (Dir. Bruce A. Evans)
Control (Dir. Anton Corbijn)
Michael Clayton (Dir. Tony Gilroy)
The Heartbreak Kid (Dir. Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly)
Shoot 'Em Up (Dir. Michael Davies)
Across The Universe (Dir. Julie Taymor)
Le Serpent (Dir. Eric Barbier)
Atonement (Dir. Joe Wright)
Hallam Foe (Dir. David Mackenzie)
Seraphim Falls (Dir. David Von Ancken)
Lady Chatterley (Dir. Pascale Ferran)
The Wicker Man (Dir. Robin Hardy)
Eagle Vs Shark (Dir. Taika Waititi)
The Bourne Ultimatum (Dir. Paul Greengrass)
Transformers (Dir. Michael Bay)
Waitress (Dir. Adrienne Shelly)
Goldfinger (Dir. Guy Hamilton)
Hairspray (Dir. Adam Shankman)
The Painted Veil (Dir. John Curran)
Edmond (Dir. Stuart Gordon)
Molière (Dir. Laurent Tirard)
4: Rise Of The Silver Surfer (Dir. Tim Story)
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (Dir. Stephen Kijak)
Grow Your Own (Dir. Richard Laxton)
Hostel: Part II (Dir. Eli Roth)
Ocean's Thirteen (Dir. Steven Soderbergh)
Like Minds (Dir. Gregory J. Read)
Captivty (Dir. Roland Joffé)
Ne le dis à personne (Dir. Guillaume Canet)
The Tiger's Tail (Dir. John Boorman)
Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End (Dir. Gore Verbinski)
Jindabyne (Dir. Ray Lawrence)
Zodiac (Dir. David Fincher)
Black Snake Moan (Dir. Craig Brewer)
Magicians (Dir. Andrew O'Connor)
28 Weeks Later (Dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo)
Next (Dir. Lee Tamahori)
Mon Meilleur Ami (Dir. Patrice Leconte)
This Is England (Dir. Shane Meadows)
Factory Girl (Dir. George Hickenlooper)
Straightheads (Dir. Dan Reed)
Vertigo (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Das Leben der Anderen (Dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
Sunshine (Dir. Danny Boyle)
The Good German (Dir. Steven Soderbergh)
300 (Dir. Zack Snyder)
I Want Candy (Dir. Stephen Surjik)
Inland Empire (Dir. David Lynch)
Sleeping Dogs (Dir. Bobcat Goldthwait)
Outlaw (Dir. Nick Love)
Hot Fuzz (Dir. Edgar Wright)
The Illusionist (Dir. Neil Burger)
Blood Diamond (Dir. Edward Zwick)
School For Scoundrels (Dir. Todd Phillips)
The Number 23 (Dir. Joel Schumacher)
For Your Consideration (Dir. Christopher Guest)
La Science Des Rêves (Dir. Michel Gondry)
Music And Lyrics (Dir. Marc Lawrence)
Babel (Dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Notes On A Scandal (Dir. Richard Eyre)
Venus (Dir. Roger Michell)
The Fountain (Dir. Darren Aronofsky)
Zwartboek (Dir. Paul Verhoeven)
Apocalypto (Dir. Mel Gibson)

2007-12-31T21:40:00.000Z

Television - 2007

The X-Factor
Californication
Spooks
The IT Crowd
Heroes
Cape Wrath
Dexter
Jekyll
Hustle
Peep Show
Smith
Doctor Who
Alias
Scrubs
Bonkers
Rescue Me
Life On Mars
Lost
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
24
Just The Two Of Us

2006-12-31T22:56:00.000Z

Books - 2006

Destination: Morgue! (James Ellroy)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (J K Rowling)
The Bad and the Beautiful (Sam Kashner & Jennifer Macnair

2006-12-31T22:55:00.000Z

Gigs - 2006

Cole Porter Classics at the Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Cinderella at the Birmingham Hippodrome, Birmingham
Jasper Carrott's Christmas Rock With Laughter 2006 at the NEC, Birmingham
The Pogues at the National Indoor Arena, Birmingham
The Flaming Lips at the National Indoor Arena, Birmingham
Jet at the Carling Academy, Birmingham
David Essex at the Symphony Hall, Birmingham
The Lemonheads at Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton
The Ordinary Boys at Wolverhampton Civic Hall, Wolverhampton
Johnny Mathis at the NEC, Birmingham
Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell at the Garrick Theatre, London
Whole Lotta Led at the Carling Academy, Birmingham
The Streets at the Carling Academy, Birmingham
The Cosmic Rough Riders at the Bar Academy, Birmingham
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest at the Garrick Theatre, London
Get Carter at the Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham
You Never Can Tell at the Garrick Theatre, London
Goldfrapp at the Carling Academy, Birmingham

2006-12-31T22:54:00.000Z

Movies - 2006

Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer (Dir. Tom Twyker)
Deja Vu (Dir. Tony Scott)
Black Christmas (Dir. Glen Morgan)
The Holiday (Dir. Nancy Meyer)
Pan's Labyrinth(Dir. Guillermo del Toro)
Casino Royale (Dir. Martin Campbell)
Borat (Dir. Larry Charles)
The Prestige (Dir. Christopher Nolan)
Candy (Dir. Neil Armfield)
Little Children (Dir. Todd Field)
Saw III (Dir. Darren Lynn Bousman)
Red Road (Dir. Andrea Arnold)
The Last Kiss (Dir. Tony Goldwyn)
The Night Listener (Dir. Patrick Stettner)
Brothers Of The Head (Dir. Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe)
Children Of Men (Dir. Alfonso Cuaron)
Clerks 2 (Dir. Kevin Smith)
The Queen (Dir. Stephen Frears)
The Black Dahlia (Dir. Brian De Palma)
Right At Your Door (Dir. Chris Gorak)
The Wicker Man (Dir. Neil LaBute)
Harsh Times (Dir. David Ayer)
Snakes On A Plane (Dir. David R. Ellis)
Severance (Dir. Christopher Smith)
A Scanner Darkly (Dir. Richard Linklater)
The Notorious Bettie Page (Dir. Mary Harron)
Lady In The Water (Dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
Cars (Dir. John Lasseter)
Atomised (Dir. Oskar Roehler)
Stay Alive (Dir. William Brent Bell)
Renaissance (Dir. Christian Volckman)
Stormbreaker (Dir. Geoffrey Sax)
Superman Returns (Dir. Bryan Singer)
District 13 (Dir. Pierre Morel)
Pretty Persuasion (Dir. Marcos Siega)
The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Dir. Ken Loach)
Thank You For Smoking (Dir. Jason Reitman)
Hard Candy (Dir. David Slade)
The Omen (Dir. John Moore)
Secuestro Express (Dir. Jonathan Jakubowicz)
36 Quai des Orfèvres (Dir. Olivier Marchal)
United 93 (Dir. Paul Greengrass)
X-Men: The Last Stand (Dir. Brett Ratner)
The King (Dir. James Marsh)
The Da Vinci Code (Dir. Ron Howard)
Mission: Impossible III (Dir. J. J. Abrams)
Brick (Dir. Rian Johnson)
Three (Dir. Stewart Raffill)
Eight Below (Dir. Frank Marshall)
16 Blocks (Dir. Richard Donner)
Freedomland (Dir. Joe Roth)
Tristan + Isolde (Dir. Kevin Reynolds)
Scary Movie 4 (Dir. David Zucker)
Failure To Launch (Dir. Tom Dey)
Junebug (Dir. Phil Morrison)
Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction (Dir. Michael Caton-Jones)
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (Dir. Carlos Saldanha)
The Pink Panther (Dir. Shawn Levy)
Hostel (Dir. Eli Roth)
Inside Man (Dir. Spike Lee)
Romance & Cigarettes (Dir. John Turturro)
V For Vendetta (Dir. James McTeigue)
The Proposition (Dir. John Hillcoat)
Lucky Number Slevin (Dir. Paul McGuigan)
The Weather Man (Dir. Gore Verbinski)
Syriana (Dir. Stephen Gaghan)
Capote (Dir. Bennett Miller)
Zathura: A Space Adventure (Dir. Jon Favreau)
Good Night, And Good Luck (Dir. George Clooney)
Final Destination 3 (Dir. James Wong)
Sympathy For Lady Vengeance (Dir. Chan-wook Park)
Walk The Line (Dir. James Mangold)
A Cock And Bull Story (Dir. Michael Winterbottom)
Hidden (Dir. Michael Haneke)
Jarhead (Dir. Sam Mendes)
Breakfast On Pluto (Dir. Neil Jordan)
The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Dir. Andrew Adamson)
Brokeback Mountain (Dir. Ang Lee)
The Producers (Dir. Susan Stroman)

2006-12-31T22:52:00.000Z

Television - 2006

Torchwood
Vincent
Spooks
Life Begins
The X-Factor
The West Wing
Doctor Who
Timeslip
Green Wing
Rescue Me
24
The IT Crowd
C.S.I. Crime Scene Investigation
My Name Is Earl
Life On Mars
Alias
Lost