How delightful it is to witness the screen reunion of Julie Walters and Jamie Bell twenty-seven years on from Billy Elliot. He’s no longer a scrawny adolescent ballet lad (though the boyish looks are still there), she’s ditched the stockings, and they’ve both decamped to Merseyside for Paul McGuigan’s funny, affectionate and heartbreaking tale of the fascinating, true story, relationship of a former fifties film star – a dazzling Annette Bening – and the boy next door. Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, but they do sparkle.
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In honour of Paddington 2, out this Friday and currently gaining promo via a lovely M&S advert, here are our picks for the greatest bears to have appeared in film. Needless to say, they’re a lot more cuddly at the pictures than in the wild!
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