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Apr 2023

1h 17m

The Mummy

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Sandstorms! Snakes! The strangulation of Brendan Fraser! This week Chris & Lizzie exhume 1999’s The Mummy. Learn how a decade of development hell gave us one of cinema’s sexiest on-screen couples and why open-toe sandals may have been a huge mistake.

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