Gemma Jones

FILM REVIEW: Rocketman starring Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell & Richard Madden

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WORTH A LOOK?: *****

RUNTIME: 121 minutes

OUT: 22/5/2019 (UK certificate 15)

We are living in a golden age of musical biopics being wonderfully realised by Hollywood and the director here, Dexter Fletcher, completed work on last year’s Oscar-winning Bohemian Rhapsody which will inevitably be compared with this.

  • Read on for reasons including how this could easily be adapted to a West End musical

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FILM REVIEW: God’s Own Country starring Josh O’Connor & Alec Secareanu

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WORTH A LOOK?: *****

WHERE: Greenwich Picturehouse

WHEN: 1/9, released 1/9

Yorkshire sheep farmer Johnny Saxby (Josh O’Connor) is binge drinking and having one night stands when he’s not keeping the farm running for his ill father.

  • Read on for reasons including why this is the first post-Brexit love story

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