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Video: See What MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Would Have Been Like With Mel Gibson

Like everyone else, Movies In Focus was blown away by the genius of George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road (read the review) in 2015. Miller’s film was a mind-blowing action masterpiece, but deep down we all wanted the mighty Mel Gibson to [...]

September 23, 2019

Interview: Producer Dallas Sonnier Talks Pushing Boundaries & Making Great Movies Away From Hollywood

Dallas Sonnier is one of the bravest and most exciting film producers working today. Through his company Cinestate, Sonnier he has delivered a roster of punchy movies including the Kurt Russell western Bone Tomahawk, Vince Vaughn crime-thriler Brawl [...]

July 17, 2019

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

Mel Gibson Career Update: FATMAN And FORCE OF NATURE

Mel Gibson movies appear to be coming thick and fast. The action icon has two movie sales currently burning-up Cannes: Fatman and Force Of Nature. Action-comedy Fatman will see the Lethal Weapon actor star as a badass Santa Claus kicking-ass at [...]

May 11, 2019

Hey UK! Get Ready For S. Craig Zahler’s DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE

Movies In Focus has been flying the flag for S. Craig Zahler’s ‘beautifully bleak’ Dragged Across Concrete since I caught it late last year. Zahler’s film is a wonderfully textured piece of filmmaking, packed with detail and [...]

March 28, 2019

Interview: S. Craig Zahler Discusses DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE

S. Craig Zahler is one of the most exciting writer-directors working today. His first two films, Bone Tomahawk and Brawl In Cell Block 99 were gutsy genre movies which also managed to deliver great emotion and detail amongst the action. Zahler is [...]

March 20, 2019

Trailer: Mel Gibson & Sean Penn Hit The Books In THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN

The Professor And The Madman hit a serious road bump when Mel Gibson and director Farhad Safinia fell out with the producers, Voltage Pictures (read about that here). It looked like the film might never see the light of day, but the Oxford [...]

February 3, 2019

Review: Milo Gibson Is A Lethal Weapon In Gritty Actioner ALL THE DEVIL’S MEN

All The Devil’s Men is a brawny Michael Mann-style thriller from writer-director Matthew Hope. This London-set action picture might not push boundaries in the plot department but there’s a lot to enjoy here including visceral and punchy [...]

November 27, 2018

Interview: Richard Donner Talks LETHAL WEAPON, THE GOONIES & More – Part 2

He started his career in television, directing some of the biggest shows of the 1960s and 1970s. However, when Richard Donner took the leap to the big screen his career went stratospheric. The Omen (1976) was a huge hit, but it was the release [...]

November 17, 2018

EXCLUSIVE: Richard Donner Gives An Update On LETHAL WEAPON 5

The Lethal Weapon movies are an example of Hollywood getting franchise filmmaking right. 1987’s Lethal Weapon saw Mel Gibson and Danny Glover paired as mismatched cops Riggs and Murtaugh and we were able to watch their friendship grow and develop [...]

November 8, 2018

Review: Mel Gibson & Vince Vaughn Star In S. Craig Zahler’s Beautifully Bleak DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE

S. Craig Zahler is a singular voice in cinema, one who is willing to take pulp concepts and craft them into unflinchingly violent features. Bone Tomahawk and Brawl In Cell Block 99 have shown him to be a writer-director who knows how to use genre [...]

October 21, 2018

New Poster For S. Craig Zahler’s Gritty Mel Gibson/Vince Vaughn Thriller DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE

Hard-edge director S. Craig Zahler‘s Dragged Across Concrete is totally Movies In Focus‘ jam. Its a gritty cop thriller starring Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn and the mighty Don Johnson. The film just played the London Film Festival and it [...]

October 17, 2018

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

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