Flight Risk
The Accountant meets Plane in this Mel Gibson-directed thriller about an accountant on a plane. In a rare title role, Topher Grace is Flight Risk AKA Winston, an accountant turned […]
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Signs
Mel Gibson plays a dad, priest and farmer visited by aliens in this 2002 M. Night Shyamalan flick he should have called Father Father Farmer Sky. This farm-based thriller finds […]
Hamlet (1990)
Mel Gibson goes mad in this cinematic version of perhaps the most quoted and adapted of Shakespeare’s tragedies. Where films like The Banquet and The Bad Sleep Well took Hamlet into […]
Chicken Run
In the original chick flick, the residents of an egg farm dream of escape from the tyrannical yoke of Mrs Tweedy (Miranda Richardson) and her scramble-brained husband. After hatching many […]
Edge of Darkness
2010 revenge thriller Edge of Darkness is not to be confused with the song ‘Edge of Glory’, no matter how gaga the plot. Following the murder of his daughter (Bojana […]
Hacksaw Ridge
Based on the true story of Desmond Doss, Hacksaw Ridge is about the pacifist who enlisted in the US military as a medic in World War Two but refused to […]
The Passion of the Christ
As it’s Halloween, we take a look at The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson’s 2004 retelling of the crucifixion story. This Christian propaganda horror movie consists 30 minutes of set-up, […]
Blood Father
I remember hearing a story about one of Mel Gibson’s parenting tactics. He’d put dummy heads (from film sets) on spikes, and when his daughter’s boyfriends came to pick her up, he’d […]
The Mad Max Quadrilogy
As Mad Max: Fury Road roars into cinemas, let’s take a look at George Miller’s dystopian franchise, set in a post-apocalyptic Australia where all that survived armageddon is leather. Mad […]
The Expendables III
The movie opens with an ultra-secure mobile prison in a train carriage heading towards a fortress with a high value prisoner on board. But the prisoner is of interest to […]
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