The Singing Detective (2003)
Nov 8, 2005Detective Story Daydreams
Disastrous Hollywood version of Dennis Potter's classic tv mini-series where a hospitalised Robert Downey jr fantasises a dream world of 1940s film noir
Mel Gibson
Paparazzi (2004)
Nov 17, 2004Celebrity Eliminates Paparazzi
Mel Gibson produced film where a Hollywood actor becomes fed up with paparazzi and begins eliminating them
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Dec 2, 2007Christian Torture Film
Mel Gibson wants to give us a film that shows Jesus’s suffering leading up to the Crucifixion but has taken it to such an extreme that he has actually created a Torture Porn film that gives the Saw and Hostel franchises a run for their money
Apocalypto (2006)
Feb 11, 2007Mayan Culture Adventure
Mel Gibson seems to love directing historical spectacles with an emphasis on bloody brutality. Here he creates a bloodthirsty adventure set among the Mayan peoples
Eliza Graves (2014)
Nov 22, 2015Victorian Asylum Taken Over by the Inmates
Brad Anderson adapts an Edgar Allan Poe story about an asylum where the inmates are posing as the staff. This is lush period piece with an amazing cast line-up – the only surprise is that it did no box-office