Talk about a hard sell: this movie stars unknown actors speaking an obscure language and is directed by a man whose off-screen behavior has outraged many. Figuring out a way to market Mel Gibson’s ...

Mel Gibson is such a pariah right now for his drunken, anti-Semitic diatribe in Malibu last summer that any movie by him would be a tough sell. A two-hour-plus film about Mayans with a cast of unknown ...

Filmgoers who pledged to avoid the controversial director's movies after his anti-Semitic rant this summer will be missing out on a great movie. Just a few months ago, Barbara Walters declared she ...

Mel Gibson, our leading purveyor (and practitioner) of Extreme History, is back with another paean to the ecstasy of agony. Less dogmatic than The Passion of the Christ, with blue body paint to equal ...

Movies are, in their nature, violent. Every shot in every film begins with the director calling “action,” and more often than not — more often, certainly, than in real life — someone gets hit, stomped ...

I’ve learned that both Time and Newsweek want to put Mel Gibson’s Apocalpto on their covers timed to its Dec. 8th opening. This happened with Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ: Newsweek made it the ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Actor and producer Mel Gibson hit back on Monday at accusations his "Apocalypto" movie misrepresents Mayan Indians as savages, accusing opponents of not doing their research.