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11.30.00am BST (GMT +0100) Sat 2nd Jun 2007

I wanted to let you know some fantastic news, a film called "Taking Liberties" is being released on Friday June 8th. It is being shown at a series of largely arthouse cinemas across the UK, but after a lot of campaigning locally, the Cineworld cinema on Broad Street is showing this film which the Birmingham Mail describes as "unmissable" & a "brilliantly insightful" and awarded it 5 stars.

I would urge each and everyone of you if you can see this movie, do... the film is brilliant, funny and very thought-provoking and should give Johnny Depp a run for his money...

Cineworld Broad Street booking line is 0871 200 2000 or via http://www.cineworld.co.uk/reservation/ChoixResa.jgi?CINEMA=82

Taking Liberties Review

By Graham Young, Birmingham Mail

WITH just a month to go before the Tony Blair era ends, here comes an extraordinarily-damning verdict of his 'legacy'. Not by rival politicians, but by the experiences of ordinary people captured on film. In 1997, the New Labour theme tune promised: 'Things can only get better'.

Ten years later, Bromsgrove-born director Chris Atkins is effectively arguing: 'Things ain't what they used to be - and they could be about to get a whole lot worse'. In a brilliantly insightful film, Chris shows how the six central central pillars of our post-war freedoms have crumbled.

More worryingly, he compares today's society with pre-war Germany. Only this time there's no Winston Churchill on standby. Rather like Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine, Taking Liberties is provocative, alarming and downright funny. Watch the two grannies, Helen and Sylvia.

When these 'new faces of terrorism' are seen standing in an English field with a US airbase in the far, far distance the police arrive to question them and warn they are not allowed to look at it. When the ladies point out they are standing with their backs to the base, the police response is: 'You might turn round'. Elsewhere, an octogenarian who fled the Nazis is manhandled out of a Labour conference for speaking his mind.

Complete with some strikingly simple but effective animated sequences by Nexus Productions, Taking Liberties is unmissable for confirming that Britain 2007 is now on dangerous ground."