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FILM: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 6
Mission Impossible: Fall Out? More like Jump Out, given that’s what Tom Cruise does for half this film. Planes, windows, cars, helicopters – he’s constantly finding new things to leap or be hurled from, and it’s joyous. Cruise’s ongoing transformation into Jackie Chan reaches its highest point yet here: imagine beaming back to 1986 and telling that to people watching Top Gun. Aside from a bare-bones spy plot that means it’s about very little other than how awesome Tom Cruise is, this is easily one of the best action movies of the century, and maybe ever: there was an old Hollywood exec who said that a movie should begin with an earthquake and then build to a climax. He’d have loved this. Times & trailer
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CRACK UP AT A HOLD-UP
The Comedy About a Bank Robbery is, as the title would suggest, a comedy about a bank robbery. It's also "the funniest show in town" according to The Telegraph, and comes with a reassuring amount of five-star reviews from its three-year tenancy in London. Touring to Birmingham's Rep for its very first trip out of the capital, the production is by the same people as the almost embarrassingly successful The Play That Goes Wrong, and tracks an escaped con obsessed with nabbing the sort of diamond a Kardashian would get married and divorced over repeatedly. Expect a fast-paced, clever, right amount silly sort of a full length skit. From August 23 to September 8. Tickets are from £10, rising to £37.50.
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BHX vs LDN
Waterloo, Hastings, Leningrad, DDC's 6th birthday — it might not roll off the tongue right now but them history books are going to need an update after the next great battle. On August 11, Digbeth Dining Club has enticed KERB — and eight of its most elbow-people-if-you-have-to-just-get-me-that-food sort of traders, over to Digbeth Arena — for one huge street food-off. Taking on eight of Brum's best, with an actual line chalked down the middle of the arena and a boxing ring for a stage, the rivalries you're going to want to take an interest in go a little something like this. On burgerness, Digbeth's own OPM will have Bill or Beak to contend with, while talking Asian, Buddha Belly's got Makatcha ogling it knowingly. Competition aside, we pinned the DDC team down, and we didn't let 'em up until they told us that Smokin Lotus produces some of the finest street food they've ever tried — think prime meats slow-smoked for hours, cut through with vibrant sauces and punchy, herby salads. Early bird tickets have rudely sold out but some of the second release remain (£7.50). And don't elbow people, you monster. What the hell's wrong with you?
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Venue: Indioz, 107 Alcester Road, Moseley, B13 8DD; website
Choice: Tarka dhal (£6.95 as a main) Chooser: Ash, owner
Where's your local? Not pub local but Indian local. Because every self-respecting Brummie's got one, and we've recently acquired a newbie. Indioz is where the happy people go to eat curry — light and fresh and full of eighties tuneage and conversation. The team behind the BYO spot spent a couple of years at Moseley institution, Imlees, learning the trade, and becoming pals with the chef, who has joined them at Indioz just a few doors down. For first bits, lamb chops (£6.05) is the obligatory order — chops that have been marinated in spices, fresh herbs and lemon before being juicified on the inside, and crispified on the out, in a tandoor oven. On middles, we went for a meat (£10.95) and a veg thaali (£9.95). The best dish was easily the buttery, creamy, garlicky, textured tarka dhal, which fortunately appears in all thaalis, and owner Ash claimed as both a personal and customer fave. Indioz is putting out very reasonable food, at very reasonable prices, and visibly enjoying doing it. The menu is warm-hug-traditional, while the service and feel of the airy spot bring the offering right up to date. And chances are, we'll be there, which you may or may not deem to be a plus. Menu
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