apocalypto

Review: Mel Gibson’s THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST Is A Cinematic Miracle

Mel Gibson’s The Passion Of The Christ is a powerful piece of cinema. It’s a breathtaking, bravura biblical epic which resonates on multiple levels. Gibson’s film has no compromises. The filmmaker set out to tell a story and he [...]

April 15, 2022

Mel Gibson Confirms That He’ll Direct LETHAL WEAPON 5

A few years ago Movies In Focus spoke with the great Richard Donner about the long-gestating fifth entry in the Lethal Weapon franchise. It looked like the film was close to getting made, but sadly the director passed away in June 2021, casting [...]

November 15, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Felix Randau’s ICEMAN

Just a heads-up: 2017’s Iceman is not a Top Gun spin-off that sees Val Kilmer’s Tom Kazansky take to the skies on a solo mission. Felix Randau’s survival drama is based ‘Ötzi’, the mummified remains of a Neolithic [...]

August 5, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Michael Fassbender & Director Neil Marshall On The Set Of CENTURION

Neil Marshall’s Centurion is not for the faint-hearted. It’s an extremely violent and gory action film in which heads and limbs are removed by slashing swords and every body part that can be skewered, is. In fact, it’s almost too violent: [...]

January 25, 2021

The Brutal Beauty Of Mel Gibson’s HACKSAW RIDGE

Mel Gibson is a director who has always been able to portray violence in an almost balletic fashion. Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto all have sequences which are shot with a brutal beauty and Gibson’s 2016 film Hacksaw [...]

May 23, 2020

The Top 100 Films Of The 21st Century…So Far

Movies In Focus was inspired to put together a Top 100 Films Of The 21st Century list after reading the recent piece in Empire which listed the top movies of the century as voted for by the magazine’s readers. It was a pretty damning list [...]

January 21, 2020

Ben Affleck To Direct Congo Drama KING LEOPOLD’S GHOST

Oscar-Winning director Ben Affleck is set to direct King Leopold’s Ghost, a historical drama about how the Congo was plundered by King Leopold II, the king of Belgium in the 1800s. Apocalypto writer Farhad Safinia will write the script for the [...]

November 23, 2019

Blu-ray Review: Survival Thriller ICEMAN Goes Back To The Stone Age

Just a heads-up: Iceman is not a Top Gun spin-off that sees Val Kilmer’s Tom Kazansky take to the skies on a solo mission. Felix Randu’s survival drama is based ‘Ötzi’, the mummified remains of a Neolithic man who was found [...]

September 22, 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

Blu-ray Review: Mel Gibson’s HACKSAW RIDGE Is Beautiful And Brutal

Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge is a masterful piece of filmmaking. Gibson’s eye for action is second to none and he has created some of the most impressive battle sequences ever filmed for this WWII drama. The sheer scope of what’s on display is a [...]

May 1, 2017

Mel Gibson Is The Art Director For $65 Million Chinese War Film THE BOMBING Starring Bruce Willis

It has been announced that Mel Gibson will act as art director for director Xiao Feng’s The Bombing. The $65 million 3D Chinese production stars Bruce Willis, Song Seung-heon, Nicholas Tse, and actor Liu Ye.‘The Bombing is based on the bombing [...]

July 13, 2015

Mel Gibson Set To Direct WWII Drama HACKSAW RIDGE Starring Andrew Garfield

Mel Gibson is one hell of a director. The man knows how to shoot visceral action like very few do and it’s verging of criminal that the last film he directed was 2006’s Apocalypto. However, he’s now said to be in talks to direct Hacksaw Ridge, [...]

November 22, 2014

Review: Michael Fassbender In Director Neil Marshall’s CENTURION

Centurion follows the Roman army’s infamous Ninth Legion as it moves forward from Hadrian’s wall into Scotland to destroy the Picts, a violent and barbarous race that plagued the Romans throughout their time in Britain. The film opens with a [...]

April 4, 2012