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Lights – Camera – Action …

oing to the cinema to watch a film isn’t something we’ve been doing much in recent times; in fact, as I write this (in May) my last evening out was to go to the film night in the local community centre in February In any case, going out ‘to the pictures’ hasn’t been the occasion it used to be for quite some time. There isn’t much of a classy experience, in my considered opinion, in attending a screening in one of the in-vogue multiplex cinematic emporia where you are force-fed a long series of trailers for movies you probably aren’t the least inclined

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