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Mel Gibson To Co-Write & Direct Remake Of Sam Peckinpah’s THE WILD BUNCH

If you asked me a few days ago if there should be a remake of Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch, I would have said ‘hell no!”. But now I’m over the moon with the announcement that Mel Gibson will co-write (with Bryan Bagby) [...]

September 25, 2018

BRAVEHEART Battles

I don’t know how I missed it until now, but this David Poland interview with Mel Gibson has been online since January 2017. It’s fascinating stuff indeed. Gibson is obviously passionate about the filmmaking process (and all the pitfalls [...]

August 4, 2018

Mel Gibson & Colin Farrell Are WAR PIGS

Movies In Focus favourites Mel Gibson and Colin Farrell are teaming for the revenge actioner, War Pigs. I might as well just hand over my money right now – Gibson and Farrell? That’s a scorching combination (but a terrible title). [...]

August 1, 2018

Annabelle Wallis Joins Mel Gibson & Frank Grillo In Joe Carnahan’s BOSS LEVEL

Have you ever walked into a restaurant, looked at the menu, seen something and thought ‘damn, I’m definitely having that’? That’s how Joe Carnahan‘s Boss Level reads to Movies In Focus – a juicy sirloin steak [...]

March 28, 2018

Blu-ray Review: Mel Gibson & John Lithgow Show Mark Wahlberg & Will Ferrell Tough Love In DADDY’S HOME 2

Daddy’s Home 2 is a fun festive family comedy that ticks all the boxes and delivers what you would expect from this type of film – but sadly it didn’t live up to the promise of having such an impressive cast. This could have been a [...]

March 24, 2018

Mel Gibson And Robert Towne Team For DANCING BEAR

Mel Gibson is keeping himself busy. He’s got a Passion Of The Christ sequel on the way, a western series with Kurt Russell in development, a potential Lethal Weapon 5, a Joe Carnahan thriller in the pipeline and now comes news he might direct [...]

February 24, 2018

Take DADDY’S HOME 2 Home

For a multitude of reasons, Movies In Focus never got to see Daddy’s Home 2 on the big screen. That’s a regret – but things will change once the Will Ferrell/Mark Wahlberg/Mel Gibson/John Lithgow comedy hits blu-ray/DVD ON 19 [...]

February 8, 2018

Richard Donner On LETHAL WEAPON 5: ‘We’ll Make It’

Rumblings of Lethal Weapon 5 keep getting louder and louder. Director Richard Donner appeared on Star Trek podcast, Spocklight and dropped some info on the long-gestating fifth instalment of the action franchise. It looks like everything is set for [...]

December 10, 2017