Die Hard – Spotlight on Film

10 Films You May Not Know Were Based on a Book (Part I)

I. The Prestige (2006) The secrets to magicians’ tricks are often mundane – it is the way those tricks are performed which makes all the difference. Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige is a complex, clever film about two magicians competing against each other in the 19th century, but the film is actually based on a…

Alan Rickman (1946 – 2016)

“If you want to know who I am, it is all in the work.” “I don’t play villains, I play very interesting people.” (Alan Rickman) British actor Alan Rickman sadly passed away on 14 January 2016. My first introduction to him was through Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), which I watched at a young…