• March 4, 2017
• At Home, Drama, War

Having grown up in a household with an abusive, alcoholic father and a devoutly religious mother, Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield) is accustomed to living in a world of opposing...

• September 23, 2012
• Action, At Home, Comedy

I first saw Lethal Weapon when I was twelve. It was edited for television and even so, it rocked my world. Mel Gibson’s sheer unstoppable hotness coupled with all...

• May 8, 2011
• At Home, Drama

The Beaver is a tricky story. Part comedy (and yes, some of it *is* squirmingly funny), and part melancholy drama, it walks a thin, sometimes wobbly line between the...

• May 4, 2011
• Moviepie Musings

In The Beaver, Mel Gibson plays a man named Walter Black who has hit rock bottom. His wife Meredith (Jodie Foster) has just kicked him out of the house,...

• December 11, 2006
• At Home

As in, quasi-pornographic gore and whole-hog blood and guts. Full throttle. Up close. Thirty feet high and in stereo-surround sound. For almost two hours and twenty minutes. Needless to...