If you are an extreme sports enthusiast, you will enjoy Point Break. Unlike Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 original, made known to our generation in Hot Fuzz, this remake/reboot/reimagining puts a great deal of emphasis on practical effects, with a team of experts being thrown off, over, onto, and through things. Which makes for rather an exciting…
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Celebrities are not ours to mourn
It would be fair to say that, so far, 2016 hasn’t been great. In the past few weeks, the world has suffered the losses of David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Glenn Frey (founding member of the Eagles), Lemmy Kilmeister, Natalie Cole and Daniel Dion. Reactions to their deaths have varied. In some cases, the media has…
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Alan Rickman – a tribute
Alan Rickman was born in Acton, London in 1946. After finishing high school he attended Chelsea College of Art and Design, then the Royal College of Art. He then co-founded a graphic design studio, where he worked successfully for three years. Then he quit, set off for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and thus…