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Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***World Cup fever's been gripping the globe, of late, but June 1988 saw our beloved continent sit down to watch the Uefa Euro 1988 Football Tournament in West Germany, which would be famously won by the Netherlands.And, just as now, the temperature was on everyone's mind. This time because NASA scientist James Hansen testified to the United States Senate that human-made global warming had begun!But, whatever happens in football - and whatever happens with the weather - one thing is always with us.And that's the art form mankind knows as cinema.And so it was that the month saw the release of such motion pictures as Big, Poltergeist III, the Presidio, Puss in Boots, Bull Durham, Red Heat, Waxwork, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Coming to America.I am, inevitably, going to nominate Who Framed Roger Rabbit as my Movie of the Month. Other opinions are, of course, available.And what of…

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