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SCORES OF competition-winning Birmingham Mail readers will be looking forward to a treat tonight - the regional premiere of the remake of the classic Robert Wise sci fi thriller, The Day The Earth Stood Still.

I'll be introducing Keanu Reeves' new film at Cineworld Broad Street.

Also in my mind will be the fact that it's just five years since the day the Earth really did seem to stand still, when Midlands' journalism was reeling from the sad news that Sunday Mercury film critic Richard Williamson had died suddenly, aged just 56.

Although he hadn't been feeling well, he had put off going to the doctors in favour of waiting to make sure he could see Judi Dench in Stratford and to make sure he could review the final film in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Richard's funeral took place on the day The Return of the King went on general release without him ever having seen it.

What a strange twist of fate when he had lived for so many years so close to Moseley Bog.

Click on the link below to read more about this great newspaperman, courtesy of the Sunday Mercury's own tribute to its star writer which was published in its next edition on December 14, 2003.