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                All superhero movies defy logic.   Batman outdoes them all…but with a difference. A stale looking Bale in an incredibly “batty” outfit...is clearly my most favourite superhero of all time…..thanks to a tight screenplay and an amazing soundtrack. A fitting end to the most believable series ever. We’ve had enough of the movies where the- guy-with-super-awesome-powers-kills-off-the-bad-guy-and-rescues-his-hostage-girlfriend-in-every-damn-movie-making-it-fricking-boring-all-the-time (read spiderman). Pity it’s a trilogy. Can’t they all go the ‘Shrek’ or the ‘Die hard ‘or even the ‘Harry Potter’ way? Three (sigh!) hugely commendable movies..move over James Cameron….Nolan’s intelligence is notable in every scene, every second. “The Dark Knight Rises” and soars high..way too high!    Sorry, I just can’t stop raving about this film. And what a movie it was!   ...

No one can ever come close to who Michael Joe Jackson was. Out of “the King of Pop’s” innumerable duets and singles, it’s hard to choose just few.  Here’s my list of MJ numbers that I like to listen over and over.   “Liberian Girl”   The song starts with the Swahillian lines " Naku Penda pia, Naku Taka pia, Mpenziwe !" (I love you too, I want you too, my love!) sung by Letta m'bulu, a South African singer.  It was the 9 th single from his album “Bad”. With Two Lovers In A Scene And She Says . . . "Do You Love Me" And He Says So Endlessly . . . "I Love You, Liberian Girl"  The video for this song had 12 celebrities in it including John Travolta, Spielberg and many, with MJ secretly filming them (he wasn’t but the video was made that way) A very beautifully rendered song from the legend, it wasn’t one of his greatest hits. It wasn’t performed in any of his tours. But it remains my favourite MJ song. Liberian Girl is dedicated ...