You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. LOS ANGELES (AP) – Mel Gibson’s bloody epic “Apocalypto” debuted as the No.

It’s safe to say that only Mel Gibson could have made Apocalypto. No other director would have been able to gather enough funding to produce a film with mostly non-actors in a Mayan dialect. Yet for ...

While the holidays boosted specialty titles like “Letters From Iwo Jima” and “Babel,” Mel Gibson’s holdover “Apocalypto” seemed stuck in neutral, after generating surprising heat in its debut three ...

With Apocalypto, Mel Gibson has taken on a tough challenge in focusing on a civilization that no longer exists and that is not terribly important to most Americans. With the same passion that he put ...

Who knows what violence lurks in the hearts of men? Mel Gibson knows. And like he did in The Passion of the Christ, Gibson just can't resist putting every last ounce of it on screen in Apocalypto. He ...

But then it wouldn’t be a Mel Gibson film, would it? The exhilarating adventure tale in the Yucatec Maya tongue is Gibson’s fourth turn behind the camera — and his bloodiest. As a director, he seems ...

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 ...

"Apocalypto" turns out to be not a case of Montezuma's revenge but of Mel Gibson's: It's something entirely unexpected, a sinewy, taut poem of action. Brazenly politically incorrect, it actually ...

As we stagger out of Mel Gibson's Maya historical thriller "Apocalypto," Julia Guernsey is visibly shaken. She's upset and not a little angry. She barely can contain her disgust, but she also can ...

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