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Three crime films. The first one’s not so good, the second one’s more impressive, and the third one’s even better. Check out Decision To Leave on iPlayer before it decides to, uh…leave.

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Apparently Batman’s 85 years old this year, so my local cinema is showing a few films to commemorate the occasion. Here are a couple I rewatched from my favourite film trilogy of all time.

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Some choose to spend their money on alcoholic beverages. Some choose to spend it on substances of a recreational nature. Others just want to watch the world burn. And a special few prefer to spend their loot on that extortionately priced fair ride that goes round on a 360-degree angle super fast. 

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I recently watched the last couple of RG films I had to see, so they’re all ticked off the list. Yes, you heard (read?) right. All 28 of ‘em in all their glory. And sometimes not glory, ‘cause not all of ‘em are great. But hey, they can’t all be real heroes.

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I’m not an Alien aficionado. I’ve only watched the first two plus Prometheus. Ridley Scott’s original was a genius exercise in claustrophobic tension, whereas James Cameron’s sequel was a much bigger action-based blockbuster. Still very enjoyable, but just in a different genre. And as for Prometheus, it had some interesting concepts, but the execution was poor. Why do you have to run in a straight line when the ships’s heading straight toward you? Just move in a different direction, goshdarnit. But, anyway, that stuff just didn’t work.

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