how i spent my summer vacation Archives

Podcast – Episode 33: THE BLACK DEMON Director Adrian Grunberg

Get The Gringo and Rambo: Last Blood director, Adrian Grünberg joins the Movies In Focus podcast to talk about his new film,The Black Demon. The killer shark movie stars Josh Lucas as an oil company employee struggling to protect his family from [...]

April 28, 2023

Trailer & Poster: Josh Lucas Takes On A Megalodon In THE BLACK DEMON

Readers of Movies In Focus will know that I’m a big fan of killer shark movies. There’s obviously the obligatory Jaws, but there’s great fun to be had with Renny Harlin’s Deep Blue Sea and then there’s a plethora of [...]

March 24, 2023

Stallone Is Back In The RAMBO: LAST BLOOD Trailer

Rambo: Last Blood seems to be something of a left turn for the 40 year old franchise. This fifth (and likely final) entry into Sylvester Stallone‘s bone-crunching, gun-blasting action series looks to be more of a modern day western and a [...]

May 30, 2019

Interview: Writer/Producer Stacy Perskie On GET THE GRINGO And Working With Mel Gibson

Get The Gringo (also known as How I Spent My Summer Vacation) has just been released on DVD and Blu-Ray following a platformed release on DirecTV and VOD. I spoke with the film’s producer and co-writer, Stacy Perskie about working with Mel Gibson [...]

July 24, 2012

Interview: Director Adrian Grunberg On GET THE GRINGO/HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION

Get The Gringo (also known as How I Spent My Summer Vacation in some international markets) has just been released on DVD and Blu-Ray following an interesting release pattern on DirecTV and VOD. The film has achieved good reviews (read ours), with [...]

July 23, 2012

Why We Need Mel Gibson

To put it mildly, you could say that in recent years Mel Gibson has caused a lot on controversy. From the release of The Passion of the Christ to his headline making arrest in the summer of 2006 you’d be forgiven for thinking that Gibson had been [...]

April 9, 2012

GET THE GRINGO/HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION Gets A Game Changing Release

Mel Gibson’s latest action extravaganza How I Spent My Summer Vacation is set to open in the UK on May 11th, but in the US, where the film is known as Get The Gringo, it is set to bypass theatres altogether and arrive on DirecTV on May 1st. The [...]

March 24, 2012