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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

In the detective stakes am moving on from The Widow Had a Gun (50) - which I admit I bought for the cover, though it wasn't a bad read - to Say Goodbye When I'm Gone (2020) by Stephen J Golds.

Two book covers are shown. The two mentioned in the text.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I have a 505 word short story up at Discretionary Love. The link is here: www.discretionarylove.com/the-permit/ Hope my Bluesky Writer Pals are getting stuff in print or virtual print.

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The Permit, Discretionary Love

Elizabeth was just the tiniest bit bored when Brandon Lewis came in through the French Windows, shook off his companion, and made a bee-line towards her...

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Well, another short story has gotten out of control and is reaching for the stars. The working title is: The Year of the (pain-in-the) Ass. Prophetic? I'm now up to Notebook 8 and 28,000 words. I gotta make a late New Year's Resolution about these short stories, let me tell ya!

Photo shows a notebook. It is on a counter in a coffee shop. We are looking out through the window at a zebra crossing. A man is sitting out there (drinking coffee, no doubt). A couple of people have just about crossed. Two bikes, stand next to the zebra.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

In the detective stakes, just started reading this novel from 1951. The 13th book in a series about photographer Kent Murdock. The prose might be a bit, well, prosaic, but I just love the cover to bits!

The cover of a detective novel called The Widow Had a Gun. The front cover has a blue background and on the right hand side, you have the top half of a woman's head. She has blue eyes, back hair and is wearing a veil.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Snapped yesterday, out at a harbour café in town, multi-tasking. Yes, me, multi-tasking, a rare sight so enjoy it while you can. I'm both reading a best-seller (another rare sight) AND sending a coded message to my better half: You make a difference.

A photo of me in a deckchair at a harbour café. I'm reading a best-seller (Beach Read) and holding up a post-card which reads, in Danish, You make a difference. I'm well wrapped up in a tweed jacket, wearing my old Ray-bans.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I have a short story up at Café Lit today. The story is called The Fellowship. Negroni is the drink to go with it (writers are supposed to pick a drink to go with the story). This link should take you directly to the story. www.cafelitmagazine.uk/2026/04/the-...

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The Fellowship by Anthony Kane Evans, Negroni

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Acceptance from Café Lit this morning. Now is a good time to send to them as they don't get too many subs during the holidays and the way they work is that they pick a story a day from those sent to them that day (providing it is up to scratch) and schedule it for publication.

Photo is off a comic panel in which a man jumps from the ladder of a helicopter onto the peak of a mountain. This speech bubble reads; Made it ... - the comic panel is from Return to Romance: The Strange Love Stories of Ogden Whitney (New York Review Comics; 2019), a fun selection of Whitney's stories from the 1959-63.

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Meghan Leigh Paulk @paulkwrites.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Punk Noir concludes series "Find What You Love and Let It Kill You," featuring fortunate(?) souls facing the void, committed to their love of choice. Authors include @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social, @epiphanyferrell.bsky.social, and yours truly. Enjoy!! punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/punk-noir-ma...

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Punk Noir Press

The Only Crime Is Getting Caught

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I have a micro-fiction, The Snap Decision (about 300 words), in the latest issue of Punk Noir Magazine. You need to scroll a bit to get to mine, though I'm sure all the stories are worth reading. I hope to read the mag over the week-end. punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/punk-noir-ma...

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Punk Noir Press

The Only Crime Is Getting Caught

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Pipsi - one half of the book club we got going in the house - is enjoying the spring sunshine so much that he is neglecting our reading, even though two books we got on the go (Evelyn Waugh's Scoop and Carlotta Dale's The Parrots Come Again) both have bird-life in them.

Photo shows my budgie - yellow head, turquoise plumage - sitting on a branch at the top of a tree-like plant by the dining room window. Sunlight streaming in through the bay window.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Just unsubscribed from about 7 lit mags today. Nothing personal, just that my inbox has reached the tipping point (I believe the Yanks have diagnosed this condition as inbox overwhelm). It's like every time we writers send off a story, we sign up for emails from the mag, naturally enough.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

For my English writer friends, or friends who are resident in England, remember, the BBC Short Story Award is open now but closes soon. Free Entry. Big prizes! Last time I entered (some years back), I was long-listed. Though, that story simply cannot find a publisher!

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Reading some funny old Romance comics from 59-63. Written and drawn by Ogden Whitney. They are the last thing I read at night, after a spot of Zen.

Comic book panel. Text reads: And even when they passed each other in the corridors ...

We see a young man and woman passing one another in the corridor. Both looking away from one another. Both with noses turned up in the air. Both saying; Hmfff!

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Yes, it is all happening in Denmark. Well, I've done my editing work for the day, so now it is off to my writing café where I hope to write the end scene for a short story that spiraled out of control (when do they not!). I'll be off the social media, thank goodness!

Headline from The Investigative: Denmark Buys US Hellfire Missiles to Defend Greenland from the United States.

Exterior shot of my usual 'writing' café with a lot of bikes parked out front and snow round about the place.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

The weather forecast is for snow drifts. I'm gonna get myself well-upholstered and get out there and head for my writing café. Yes, life is pain, but if I can make it to the café it is also pain au chocolat.

Graffiti on a white wall. In black, someone has written in block capitals: LIFE IS PAIN. Next to it, scrawled in blue, is: au chocolat. So, the whole reads: Life is pain au chocolat.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Some much-needed sunshine down at the old writing café today. Managed to plot my way to a quicker ending of the missing persons story I'm currently engaged in. Hope my Bluesky writer pals are getting the words down.

Photo shows a couple of things. The 'table' I'm sitting at, with pen, notebook, coffee cup, highlighter and plants pot in the foreground. And in the background, the view through the window, cars, cyclists, parked cycles. Trees. The road, traffic lights, some wooden structure over the road.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Been watching Excorcismo/Excorcism (Sp. 75. Juan Bosch). Quite entertaining mix of giallo and Excorcist rip-off with Paul Naschy as the priest. Set in an unconvincing England. Even the road sign to Brighton looks well dodgy. Recommended for those of you who like this kind of thing.

Photo shows DVD cover of the German version of the film. We see the young woman who is possessed and the priest who is going to try to save her soul.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

It was a pretty long walk today down by the frozen lakes to a café I write in once a month! Boy, did I deserve my cup of coffee even before I'd written a single word. Hope my writer pals got some words down today.

A shot from inside the café, looking out over the frozen lake. In the foreground, tables and chairs on a pontoon-like bridge, in the background, more of the frozen lake, building on the left (inner Copenhagen), trees on the right (the neighbourhoods).

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Just got back from the opening film in the Silent Film Festival playing in town at the Cinematek. A restoration of Song/Show Life/Dirty Money (GB-G. 28. Richard Eichberg). Introduction by three people, inc. the restorer himself.

Photo is a German poster of the film, showing the two main starts, Anna May Wong and Heinrich George. Brown and yellow colours make up most of the poster, with red for the titles and orange and a navy blue for Anna's skirt.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Looking back on last year, the high point of my writing was getting a novelette out. The Cripple Club (Alien Buddha Press). I hope to build on that this year. Hope my Bluesky writer pals have a good year of it.

Photo shows me plucking my book off a bookshelf.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

First film of the New Year is by Werner Herzog (WG. 70):

The film concerns some dwarfs and midgets (what today we'd call little people) who get up to a lot of trouble. The poster shows one of these little people on a motorbike.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Quick shot of me LITERALLY coming into the New Year yesterday (ignore the date, the camera has a life of its own). Hope all my Bluesky pals made it. Good to see so many posts about literature (and film) in my feed today. Seems like all I got last year was politics here on Bluesky.

Photo of me coming into my apartment through some French windows. It's black night out there. I'm in a tweed jacket with my collar seriously turned up as it was also damn cold out there. I'm carrying some glasses, no doubt protective, as there were also fireworks out there.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Happy New Year to all my Bsky Writer pals, pals in the other Arts, and the odd non-arty-farty type of pal who snuck in from left field.

A still from Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (US. 1931. Rouben Mamoulian). Still shows Fredric March as Mr Hyde, just about to drink a potion. The idea is that I am sending a New Year cheers to you.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

... is re-watching a favourite giallo, The Case of the Scorpion's Tail (It-Sp. 71. Sergio Martino).

Italian poster for the film. Shows a hand which has been stung by a scorpion. Very nice art-work, I think.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

My friends after they've got their book royalties.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Well, November finally came down hard on my writing café. You can just make out a cyclist whizzing by if you look carefully. Maybe I should get off the crime and write a ghost story!

Photo shows the café I tend to write in during the non-summer months. Besides my notebook, pen, highlighter, a novella and a cup of coffee, you can see out of the window into the street. Or rather, it is v. difficult to do so as it looks very foggy out there.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Lucky enough to have a short story in this anthology which has its official book release today. Copies available directly from the publisher.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Can't decide whether to watch the local election results on TV or the Denmark v Scotland world-cup qualifier. Then again, I've also got a Bruce Lee movie lined up. What would YOU go for?

Photo shows Bruce Lee and his nunchakus or - in this case - door chains.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Been re-watching The Shooting (US. 66. Monte Hellman). This one stars Jack Nicholson as a bounty hunter. He plays the role quite well. However, the film properly belongs to Warren Oates who is hired to track a man down, and Millie Perkins as the woman who is doing the hiring .

Photo shows Criterion BluRay cover. Bit of a montage. A fragment of Jack Nicholson's face in there.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Last couple of films I've seen at the cinema have both been great. Not surprisingly, given that I've seen both of them at least twice before. Hiroshima, mon amour I have just got back from seeing. Hope my Bluesky pals are seeing some good movies up on the old silver screen.

Film posters/Blu Ray covers of: Barry Lyndon and Hiroshima, mon amour.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Well, somebody's got to read the bugger. Actually took 3 photos and could not get the book in focus, talk of symbolism! I've just fought my way through the frame story, which is a little head-twisting. Now, I'm about to embark on the main story, let's hope that is plain sailing.

Photo shows Søren Kierkegaard's l, The Seducer's Diary. First published in 1843. It is actually a long extract from Either/Or. The photo is slightly out-of-focus.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Just started reading Bop City Swing by M E Proctor & Russell Thayer. Only a couple of chapters in, but it plays smoothly so far. Published earlier this year by Cowboy Jamboree Press. Has a crap ton of endorsements, as you might expect from these authors.

Photo shows book cover which depicts a nightclub and the two main characters amongst others.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Acclimatizing myself on the roof of the Cinematek in Copenhagen, before going in to see a documentary film on Thomas Man's Magic Mountain.

Photo shows me on the roof of the Cinematek in Copenhagen. Reading (you can't see exactly what, but it is Juvenal's Satires), a glass of wine by my side. Sitting in strong sunlight. Wooden structures around me, which are kind of booths where you can watch videos.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Just got my flu and Covid booster jabs. Glad to report that there have been no negative side-effects so far. In fact, I'm feeling rather funky.

Photo shows a rather funky-looking alien from the film Phantom Planet (1961).

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Finished a first read-through/edit of a detective novel I finished writing two years back. Needs a hell of a lot of work on it, but there are around 380 pages so I can throw a lot out and still keep it at novel-length. Hope my writer friends are getting the words down.

Photo shows Eclipses luminarium by Cyprian Leowitz, 1555. Collection Bavarian state library. Basically, you have the face of the sun during an eclipse. It's a bit hard to explain really. You'll need to ask somebody to sit down next to you and tell you what is going on.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

We had some good weather today so I ended up writing in a cafe on the lakes here in Copenhagen. To the left, the inner city. To the right, the neighbourhoods. Hope my Twitter writer pals got some work done today.

Photo shows a table in an outdoor cafe located on a lake. Well, the cafe is both indoor and outdoor, but I'm sitting outdoors because we have a blue sky and the temp is up at around 15 or 16 degrees C, with very little wind. You see the lake in front of me, a couple of boats moored to the kind of pier that I'm on. On the table is my notebook, my pen, a bottle of carbonated water, a glass and my sunglasses.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Christopher Walken in New Rose Hotel (98).

Photo shows Walken in a restaurant. He's saying (sub-titled): Waiter! Coleslaw for everybody!

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Gerda Maurus in Spies (G. 28. Lang). A silent film I re-watched yesterday. Maybe one of Lang's best German films.

Photo is a screen-grab of the actress, looking at camera, a cigarette firmly planted in her mouth. She really does smoke her way through this movie. Never seen so much cigarette smoke!

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

In the lit stakes, I'm currently reading: The Lost Musicians (50). Heinesen was a Faroese writer who wrote in Danish. However, I'm not reading this in Danish, but in an English translation. Plot concerns some musicians up on the islands at the beg. of the twentieth century.

Cover shows the book cover of The Lost Musicians by William Heinesen. A very nice cover, showing some musicians playing trumpets with an island in the background. In the foreground a thatched house and a couple of onlookers. The colours are black, white and orange.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

... is watching Late Autumn (Jap. 60. Ozu).

Photo shows still from film. The daughter of the house - whom a whole bunch of people are trying to marry off - sitting at the dinner table. In front of her a red bowl.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Well, 11th September and I can still go down to the park café and set up my office! Did a spot of reading and writing, after having spent part of the morning editing at home on the old PC. Hope my Bluesky writer pals are getting some work done.

A round table outside in the local park café, full of the things you might find on your writing desk. Coffee, a book, three notebooks, a pen, a yellow highlighter. A mostly eaten scone. Work in progress.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

In the non-fiction stakes, I'm moving from The Contemporary Cinema (63) - yes, I'm right up-to-date on contemporary cinema, any questions, fire away! - to We Have Received a Complaint (2024), which looks into the pros and cons of workplace investigations.

Photo shows two book covers. The Contemporary Cinema by Penelope Houston (with Jeanne Moreau on the cover) and We Have Received a Complaint by Matt Malone with Newton's Cradle on the cover, and next to that a little bomb.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Managed to put THE END on a writing project that has been taking too long (a short story that morphed into a 25,000 word novella). Now I can get down to some serious editing of a more serious piece of writing. Hope my Blue Sky writer pals have a better grip on things!

Photo shows me in one of my writing cafés, after I've just written THE END on a piece of writing that got way out of control and took up too much of my time.

Photo shows empty coffee cup in foreground, along with a pen and a notebook (The Discount Countess No.7). In the background, through the window, a rainy day. A woman pushing her bike over a zebra crossing. A couple of bikes parked outside the café.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Been watching Mother Joan of the Angels (Poland. 61. Jerzy Kawalerowicz). Excellent film about the possession of a group of nuns at Loudun. Beautifully shot. The film centres around a theologian's attempt to cure the Mother Superior of her possession by eight demons.

Photo shows a still from the film. We're in a church. The priests who have come to help with an exorcism are standing in front of the alter. In the church itself are four pews with some locals, Otherwise the whole floor area is taken up with the nuns - all dressed in white habits - spreadeagled on the stone floor.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Looks like a magazine will do a review of my 61 page novelette. I've sent them a PDF. If you are a magazine, a blogger or a Cornflake packet and would like to review it, then send me a message and I'll send you a PDF.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Not often that I come to the end of three books at about the same time. Just finished one, have about a page and a half of another. And the third one has only 68 pages to go (out of 298).

Photo shows 3 books: The Epic of Gilgamesh; The Conemporary Cinema (63) - Penelope Houston; and The Devil's Paintbrush (09) by Jake Arnott. In the background, can be spotted (out of focus) a Buddha statue and a lamp against a yellow wall.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Seems to be a pattern that I keep getting stuck writing longer short stories that morph into novellas. This takes up too much of my time. Anyway, getting to the end of this one now, then down to some overdue editing. Hope my fellow Twitter writers have a better grip on things!

Shows a single (45 rpm) by The Stranglers. The song is called (GET A) GRIP (ON YOURSELF).

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

About to settle down for a re-watch of:

Photo shows a movie poster for the film Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (GB. 66). On the poster we see David Warner carrying Vanessa Redgrave and over David's shoulder, a gorilla. It's on a double bill with The Spy Killers, a film I don't know.

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