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    THE FIRST TAKE CLUB

    Dec 27, 2019 3 minutes

    THIS MONTH

    IN THE LINE OF DUTY WRITER JEREMY DRYSDALE WATCHES THE EPICTHE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING FOR THE FIRST TIME

    I’M NOT CONVINCED that the rules to this game are any more onerous than 1) pick a film you haven’t seen from a list and 2) don’t write any more than 750 words about it, but I’m going to add a third: don’t pick the film which runs at nearly three-and-a-half hours

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