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Trailer: Things Get DANGEROUS For Scott Eastwood & Mel Gibson

This trailer for Dangerous starts off in a pretty generic fashion, but things then get a bit really crazy as it moves on. It looks like it might just be a silly shoot-em-up with a good lead role for Scott Eastwood. Throw in support from the mighty [...]

October 24, 2021

John Wick Series THE CONTINENTAL Sees New Cast Members Join Mel Gibson

Actor Colin Woodell has won a key role opposite the previously cast Mel Gibson in Starz’s John Wick prequel series, The Continental. Wodell will play a younger version of Ian McShane’s Winston Scott. Hubert Point-Du Jour, Jessica [...]

October 20, 2021

Mel Gibson To Star In John Wick Series THE CONTINENTAL

The mighty Mel Gibson will make a (very) rare television appearance with in the forthcoming John Wick spin-off series, The Continental. The three part event series, produced for Starz by Lionsgate Television will serve as a prequel of sorts to the [...]

October 18, 2021

Mel Gibson Sits In The HOT SEAT

The mighty Mel Gibson is set to star in the new action-thriller, Hot Seat. James Cullen Bressack will direct the film which is set to start filming in New Mexico on 1 November 2021. Based on a story by Leon Langford & Collin Watts, ‘Hot [...]

October 16, 2021

Behind The Scenes: George Clooney & Wolfgang Petersen On The Set Of THE PERFECT STORM

The year 2000 was when George Clooney broke his stalemate on movie stardom and launched his career as an A-list movie star. Wolfgang Petersen’s The Perfect Storm was seen as make or break, or more aptly sink or swim for Clooney. The big [...]

September 13, 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: PAYBACK

Brian Helgeland -1999. Payback is a slick but gritty modern film noir from writer-turned-director Brian Helgeland. Mel Gibson plays things somewhat against type as the anti-hero out for revenge after being double-crossed and left for dead. [...]

September 9, 2021

Notebook Reviews: LETHAL WEAPON

Richard Donner – 1987. Lethal Weapon is the movie that kick-started an incredible movie franchise – and the buddy movie sub-genre. Mel Gibson, Danny Glover and Richard Donner are on fine form in delivering this cracking thriller. The [...]

August 29, 2021

Notebook Reviews: THE MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL

Wim Wenders – 2000. The Million Dollar Hotel is a film which fails to deliver on the promise of its talent. Co-written by U2’s Bono, directed by Wim Wenders and produced by Mel Gibson‘s Icon Productions, it’s a really dull [...]

August 26, 2021

Notebook Reviews: LETHAL WEAPON 3

Richard Donner – 1992. Lethal Weapon 3 is an exceptionally well made action movie, with some incredibly well constructed action set pieces. Energetically directed by the great Richard Donner and well acted by Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, this [...]

August 24, 2021

Yippee Ki-Yay! DIE HARD Turns 33 Years Old

Die Hard is a great example of the Hollywood studio system getting moviemaking right – the film is a perfect storm of story and talent coming together. It is hard to fathom that the action-thriller was such an unknown quantity when it was first [...]

July 16, 2021

Danny Glover ‘Heartbroken’ Over The Death Of Lethal Weapon Director Richard Donner

There has been a huge outpouring of love and appreciation over the death of director Richard Donner on 5 July 2021. Mel Gibson as spoken talked about his sadness at the death of his friend and mentor, and Gibson’s Lethal Weapon co-star, Danny [...]

July 6, 2021

Mel Gibson Talks About His Friend & Mentor, Richard Donner

Mel Gibson has spoken about the passing of his friend and mentor Richard Donner. Donner died on 5 July 2021 at the age of 91. Gibson and Donner made six movies together – Lethal Weapon and it’s three sequels and Maverick and Conspiracy [...]

July 5, 2021

Obituary: Legendary Hollywood Director Richard Donner Dies Aged 91

The great Richard Donner sadly passed away at the age of 91 on 5 July 2021. Born Richard Donald Schwartzberg on 24 April 24 1930 in New York, Donner started out as an actor before moving into directing in the 1960s. He went on to become one of [...]

July 5, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Don Jonson, S. Craig Zahler & Mel Gibson On The Set Of DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE

Writer/director S. Craig Zahler‘s 2018 film, Dragged Across Concrete plays-out like a cinematic novel. It’s a film with little digressions which expand on supporting characters, unveiling who they are so that we get to know them and [...]

July 5, 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

George Clooney – The Last Of The Movie Stars

There are movie stars and then there is George Clooney. The actor, who turned 60 years old on 6 May, 2021 is the epitome of old style charm and charisma and he has been compared to Cary Grant on so many occasions that it would be superfluous to do [...]

May 6, 2021

The Mighty Richard Donner

The mighty Richard Donner turned 91 years old on 24 April 2021. Donner is one of the all-time great Hollywood directors who cut his teeth in advertising and television, working on some of the most iconic shows of the 1960s and 1970s (The Twilight [...]

April 24, 2021

Notebook Review: CHICKEN RUN

Peter Lord/Nick Park – 2000 Good cluckin’ fun! Chicken Run is a hugely enjoyable old fashioned family film with some wonderful stop motion animation from Ardman Studios. This farm focused animation is well made, with a script that both [...]

April 22, 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

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