Modern Two in Edinburgh reopens this week, and what more fitting subject for a show in a time of global catastrophe than Ray Harryhausen, titan of cinema, creator of beasts, destroyer of cities, king of adventure?
If you were near a screen at any point during the Cold War, you almost certainly watched Harryhausen movies.

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