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Variety the spice of long adventure films? (5)

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I believe the answer is:

epics

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'long adventure films?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to communication as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'variety the spice' is the wordplay.
'variety' is an anagram indicator.
'spice' with letters rearranged gives 'EPICS'.

'of' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for epics that I've seen before include "Long tales of heroic deeds" , "Long poems about great events" , "Spice up with adventurous poems or stories" , "Long narrative poems telling of deeds of heroes" .)

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