Mel Gibson

By Joshua Wiebe In the late 1990s most people were familiar with the mediocre quality of recent Mel Gibson vehicles. Films such as Ransom, Conspiracy Theory, and Payback were all of such poor quality it was hard to believe Gibson would ever reach the heights he had with other, superior action films (Tequi...

By El Bicho Gibson tried to keep this movie as real as he possible could, and I think he did a fine job. The only thing that I didn't like about this film was the hype about it being a look into the Mayan culture yet we barely scratch the surface. It's wrong when advertisers do that just to get you into the theat...

By TV and Film Guy With each successive film Mel Gibson has directed, he seems to become more and more removed from traditional filmmaking. That is not a complaint, certainly, as such, non-traditional fare still made within the Hollywood system can prove interesting, Passion of the Christ being the perf...

By Daniel Cummings What does follow includes a breathtaking chase through the jungle where Jaguar Paw uses elements of his surroundings to his advantage against his enemies. It’s a brilliantly executed action sequence that of all films is quite reminiscent of the famous jungle sequence in Sylvester Stal...

By Michael Jones Last night I settled in and watched Heretic Film’s newly released DVD of Michael Ferris Gibson’s Numb, a film that originally hit theatres, albeit in a limited fashion, four years ago in 2003. Such a broad span of time between a film’s theatrical release and its subsequent emergence on DVD...

By El Bicho Brian Helgeland is an award-winning screenwriter, earning both an Oscar and a Razzie a few days apart. He made his feature film directorial debut with Payback, starring and produced by Mel Gibson. It is based on Donald E. Westlake’s novel The Hunter, written under the pseudonym Richard Sta...

By Adam Ash Braveheart won every prize going, but his two follow-ups, The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto, have won zilch, despite the fact that they’re better movies. Despite the fact that they’re the best movies to come out of Hollywood in ...

By Film School Rejects After some delays, Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto is finally scheduled to hit theaters on December 8. Like his previous opus, The Passion of the Christ, Apocalypto is done entirely in a foreign language with subtitles. And just like the last time, audiences are in for a treat.Apocalypto tells the...