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Die Hard on big screen for just pounds 2.50 pounds 2.50.

Byline: By Graham Young

YIPPEE-KI-YAY! GET your white vests ready and prepare to learn how make some 'fists with your toes'.

Yes, Bruce Willis Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an American actor and singer. He came to fame in the late 1980s and has since retained a career as both a Hollywood leading man and a supporting actor, in particular for his role as John McClane in the Die Hard series.  is back in town next week... in our very own 20th anniversary screening of the original DIE HARD (18).

Originally taglined 'It will blow you through the back wall of the theatre', the classic thriller is our Birmingham Mail The Birmingham Mail is a tabloid newspaper based in Birmingham, UK but distributed around Birmingham, The Black Country, Solihull, Warwickshire and parts of Worcestershire and Staffordshire.  Film Club screening from 6.50pm next Tuesday at Cineworld Broad Street.

It was directed on the back of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Predator by John McTiernan, who went on to make The Hunt for Red October and Last Action Hero.

Since being originally released in the US in July, 1988, Die Hard's appeal has seen it become one of the most repeated movies in TV history.

But, unless you are aged over 38, the chances are you've never seen it where it belongs - on the silver screen. Based on a novel by Roderick Thorp Roderick Mayne Thorp, Jr. (September 1, 1936 – April 28, 1999) was an American novelist specializing mainly in crime novels.

As a young college graduate, Thorp worked at a detective agency owned by his father.
, the movie won four Oscar nominations for best film editing, best sound, best visual effects and best sound effects editing.

As fearless New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 cop John McClane, Willis takes on a bunch of terrorists who are holding people hostage in an LA office building.

Tickets for our Tuesday screenings cost just pounds 2.50 for our Film Club members.

Remember, also, that one of the benefits of Film Club membership is that you can choose to watch any film at Cine world Broad Street for pounds 4 on a Tuesday night.

By the same token, non-members are welcome to test drive the club by attending any of our Film Club screenings, paying the standard adult ticket price of pounds 5.80.

Cinema-goers can also get free parking for the first three hours (usual price pounds 1.85) when using the neighbouring Euro Car Park.

The Birmingham Mail Film Club is open to all readers, no age limits, with admission to films dependent on remaining ticket availability and film classification. For joining details, visit www.birminghammail.net

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