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Here (Alan Silvestri)

Much has been written about the film Here. I mean, not here, but elsewhere. Sadly, very little of it sounds positive. The static camera gimmick, capturing everything that happens in a single spot throughout time, from dinosaurs trampling around it to folk building a house around it so we can see what happens in their living room, seems to have fallen flat with most critics.

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Kensuke’s Kingdom (Stuart Hancock)

Earworm – a recurring tune that involuntarily pops up and sticks in your mind. Usually they are catchy tunes, popping up spontaneously or triggered by emotions, associations, or by hearing the melody. Do you like earworms? Do you like melodies that hop on the musical merry-go-round in your head and refuse to get off? Oh boy, then Stuart Hancock has got you covered.

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The Alien Heptalogy (Various)

We’ve been screaming a lot since 1979. Not that anyone could hear us. Not in space anyway. The reason for those screams? The xenomorph. A perfect organism intent on killing. The Alien franchise, because that’s what I’m talking about, now has its seventh entry: Romulus. Rather than simply reviewing the last entry, let’s have a look at the whole series so far.

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