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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

Alan Ladd Jr Dies Aged 84

Famed studio chief and film producer Alan Ladd Jr. Ladd has died at the age of 84. Born on 22 October 1937, Ladd was the son of Shane actor Alan Ladd and he started his Hollywood career as a Hollywood agent in the 1960s. Moving to London in the [...]

March 3, 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: Ed Zwick’s DEFIANCE

There have been a slew of holocaust dramas over the years which attempt to show the Second World War from different cinematic perspectives. For 2008’s Defiance, director Ed Zwick decided to focus on Jewish refugees fighting for their [...]

September 20, 2021

Notebook Reviews: THE PATRIOT

Roland Emmerich – 2000. Master of Disaster, Roland Emmerich goes for a serious change of pace with The Patriot. Yes, this is still a huge scale Hollywood blockbuster, but its worlds away from the likes of Stargate and Independence Day. The [...]

September 12, 2021

Notebook Reviews: WE WERE SOLDIERS

Randall Wallace – 2002 Braveheart pair Mel Gibson and Randall Wallace re-team for We Were Soldiers, a true life Vietnam War drama. Wallace’s film is solid if a little unspectacular and it doesn’t quite deliver the emotional heft [...]

May 27, 2021

Review: LADDIE: THE MAN BEHIND THE MOVIES Is A Heartfelt Portrait Of A Hollywood Mogul

Laddie: The Man Behind The Movies is a richly textured and heartfelt documentary which looks at the life and career of studio chief and film producer Alan Ladd Jr. Ladd, the son of Hollywood star Alan Ladd might not be a household name, but his [...]

April 20, 2021

Danger Man: Remembering Patrick McGoohan

In the 1960s Patrick McGoohan starred as John Drake in Danger Man, and then as Number 6 in Danger Man’s unofficial spin-off The Prisoner, a surreal but iconic show that has gone down in cult-legend despite only lasting seventeen episodes. The [...]

October 17, 2020

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

Trailer & Poster: Angus Macfadyen Is ROBERT THE BRUCE

Robert The Bruce once again sees Angus Macfadyen play the historic Scottish nobleman. A sort of quasi-sequel to Mel Gibson’s Braveheart, Richard Gray’s film charts Robert The Bruce‘s continuous political battles against the English [...]

June 9, 2019

Blu-ray Review: It’s A Game Of Thrones For Saoirse Ronan & Margot Robbie In MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS

A film which never manages to be the sum of its parts, Mary Queen Of Scots works as a character study of Saoirse Ronan‘s legendary Queen, but it fails to gain traction in order to set-up any true cinematic thrills. Ronan delivers in spades as [...]

May 22, 2019

All Hail The King! Chris Pine Is Robert The Bruce In OUTLAW KING

The Braveheart comparisons can’t be denied, which is unfortunate because I doubt David Mackenzie‘s Outlaw King will ever have the muscular power of Mel Gibson’s 1995 epic (aka one of the greatest films ever made). The visuals seem [...]

August 20, 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 And Randall Wallace Planning A Follow-up To THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST

Writer-director Randall Wallace is once again teaming with Mel Gibson (following Braveheart, We Were Soldiers and Hacksaw Ridge) – this time to write a follow-up to The Passion Of The Christ. Wallace told The Hollywood Reporter that the new movie [...]

June 11, 2016

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