Mel Gibson

Quit Using "Gimme Shelter" In Every Damn Movie

The Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter" is the movie soundtrack song that won't die. Martin Scorcese made a cliche out of it decades ago, but since then it not only hasn't gone away, it's become more prevalent in movies and TV. Sure, it's a good song, but mango popsicles are good too and we don't want o ... More >>

Mel Gibson Threatened to Off Oksana Grigorieva, 'Terrorized' Step-Mom -- Court Claim

Mel Gibson's rants have targeted a Jewish cop, an A-list screenwriter, and an ex-girlfriend. But a 78-year-old mum? His own step-mother, Teddy Joye Hicks Gibson, is asking a judge for a restraining order against Mel Gibson because, she claims, he has a history of verbal rage that has her scared. He ... More >>

Ray Bradbury, RIP: Fahrenheit 451 Is Still Misinterpreted. We, Not Government, Are Enslaving Ourselves

Ray Bradbury, in a 2009 interview with LA Weekly at his Cheviot Hills home, explained with gusto a fact that shocked millions of fans: Fahrenheit 451 was not a warning about government mind control. The world got that wrong. His warning was, we are doing to ourselves -- enslaved to glowing screens. ... More >>

Merriam-Webster, Let's Get Slizzard

Dear Merriam-Webster: We admit it: We're not hip. We didn't know until very recently that "Like A G6" isn't about a super-advanced Steve Jobs prototype computer that can also fly jet planes. As a Professional Writer, there is one thing we do know: language. Specifically, the English language. We ... More >>

Al Gore is Wrong: Global Cooling Could be on The Horizon as a Result of Solar Slumber (Maybe)

NASADon't go changin'.​Al Gore is wrong. So go ahead, pack up your things and move back to the coast. Global warming might not happen. Not that we haven't tried our best to ruin the planet. We have. And we had a good run there with the ozone layer, the great pacific garbage patch and The Edge ... More >>

Top 5 Apocalypse Movie Food Scenes

Alle your McDonald's are belong to us.​There's a scene in "War of the Worlds," the 2005 remake not the 1953 original, when Tom Cruise finds berserker survivalist Tim Robbins holed up in his basement. After sheltering him from the aliens, Robbins offers him peach schnapps. Even then, he (and th ... More >>

Ten Movies Coming Out This Weekend, Including Thor, The Beaver, Something Borrowed and Jumping the Broom

Thor​ Ten movies coming out this weekend, with reviews from our print edition: 10. The summer tentpoles are coming, and this week we have Kenneth Branagh's Thor, which Eric Hynes says is "an astonishingly awkward marriage of ancient Norse mythology and 21st-century nonsense and "works too har ... More >>

The Beaver Review

Mel Gibson, playing mad and loving it

Zero Men: Charlie Sheen Loses Show, Goes Off Deep End, Calls 'Two And a Half Men' Creator Chuck Lorre 'This Contaminated Little Maggot'

CBSCharlie Sheen begins his descent.​Wow. Charlie Sheen went borderline Mel Gibson on the show-runner of Two and a Half Men, and now he has no show to return to, at least for this season. Not just any show, mind you, but one of the most-successful on TV in recent history. And he single-hande ... More >>

The Eagle

Hey, L.A: Do You Have The Right To Be An Anti-Semite?

Hall of famer Mel Gibson.​After we recently published some of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's "Top 10 Anti-Semitic Slurs of 2010," readers weighed in -- some with disdain for those who couldn't contain their prejudice and others who questioned whether being anti-semitic was really a sin on the l ... More >>

L.A.'s Simon Wiesenthal Center: 'Top 10 Anti-Semitic Slurs of 2010'

Mel, this list needs you.​TMZ called it (as usual): Mel Gibson didn't make the "Top 10 Anti-Semitic Slurs of 2010'' list? Surprising, innit? It's a whole new era in unenlightened Jew hating. And the L.A.-based Simon Wiesenthal Center has the list of fresh recruits. At the top, former Associa ... More >>

Bill Clinton Replaces Mel Gibson As Celeb Cameo Of Choice In 'The Hangover 2'

Psycho Hollywood bad boy out, vintage White House bad boy in​Zach Galifianakis threw a tantrum last month when "Hangover" director Todd Philips so much as considered giving the world's biggest arse a few minutes of screentime in the July 2011 sequel to the No. 1 bromantic comedy of the ots. W ... More >>

Mel Gibson Scores Cameo In 'Hangover' Sequel -- But Will A Bit Part In A Stoner Comedy Be Enough To Rehab His Reputation As World's Biggest Asshole?

​[Updated after the jump: As it turns out, not even the "Hangover" franchise is ballsy enough to associate with Gibson. Director Todd Phillips cancels the cameo. Originally posted on Monday, Oct. 18 at 9 a.m.] After an R-rated summer of racial slurring and baby-mama beating, Mel Gibson is hop ... More >>

Sheriff's Deputy Sues L.A. County Department Over His Treatment Following Mel Gibson Tirade

​The Jewish sheriff's deputy who documented Mel Gibson's alleged, antisemitic comments following the actor's 2006 DUI arrest in Malibu is suing his department, claiming that he has been passed over for promotions because he told the truth via an arrest report. Deputy James Mee claims emotiona ... More >>

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Trust Us: This Is the Only Mel Gibson Remix You Need

Mel Noise​You know the drill: someone (well-known or not) does something absurd, funny or demeaning IRL, someone else uploads it onto the Internet (for Lulz, "a corruption of L O L, which stands for Laugh Out Loud." --Phil Shuman, Fox News), and then many people make musical remixes as a way ... More >>

Mel Gibson Allegedly Threatens Oksana Grigorieva's Life In Second Taped Conversation

​This Mel Gibson thing ain't getting any better. Any hopes of him being able to pull an Alec Baldwin (appearing on SNL, starring in a beloved if not under-watched prime-time show) appear to have been dashed by the release of what has been billed as yet another taped tirade against baby mama Ok ... More >>

Mel Gibson's Racist Rant Caught On Tape

Gibson's mouth is a lethal weapon.​Ah, Mel Gibson: He's already known to be a supporter of the Jewish community. Now he's demonstrated that he's a big friend of the African-American demographic through the magic of Tourette syndrome. RadarOnline, that perennial number-two to TMZ, got the day' ... More >>

Incredibly Cheesy Music Video by Hypocritical Mel Gibson Directing Ex-Wife Oksana to Be Provocative, Sexy

Ah, what a difference a year makes... Back in July, 2009, a lovely Malibu chanteuse and piano player, a model-caliber beauty originally from Russia, unveiled the very professionally directed video for her song "Beautiful Heartache." A video featuring tango dancing, knife-throwers, and flaming piano ... More >>

Mel Gibson Investigated For Domestic Violence In Malibu

​Actor Mel Gibson was being investigated for domestic violence, county sheriff's officials said Thursday. The case involves girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva, who gave birth to the pair's daughter in 2009. A statement from the sheriff's Lost Hills Station, which patrols Malibu, reads that the depa ... More >>

Movie Reviews: When in Rome, Edge of Darkness, Legion

Also, Extraordinary Measures, Saint John of Las Vegas

Mel Gibson's DUI Forgiven

​Call it an act of redemption, but today Malibu Judge Lawrence Mira agreed to expunge actor Mel Gibson's 2006 drunk-driving record. On July 28 of that year Gibson was pulled over for speeding on Pacific Coast Highway by LASD deputy James Mee. The Braveheart star's blood-alcohol level was a robust ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Mothers Against Drunk Deputies? L.A. County's Office of Independent Review has issued a report raising warnings about a growing culture of alcoholism in the Sheriff's Department. L.A. TimesPathogens? What Pathogens? USC's student affairs veep announced that an alarm about airborne viruses on campus ... More >>

Why Torture Porn Isn't

Notes on the contemporary horror movie

The Return of N*gger Wetb*ck Ch*nk

What'd you call me?

The Blockbusters Cometh

It could be a Promised Movieland this summer, unless...

Film Reviews

Including G.I. Jesus, Smokin' Aces and Verdict on Auschwitz

It's a Wonderful Life?

Hollywood stuffs its stockings with Mel-odramas, shame, backstabbing and bloodbaths

Apocalypto: The Passion of Mel

Gibson’s powerful, personal Mayan epic

’Tis the Season for Tinseltown’s Stupid Human Tricks

Mel’s persecution complex, Russell’s bloody bling and Hollywood’s overpaid divas

The Passion of Lee Baca

Post Cards From a Paranoid Universe

John Powers on summer's slithering freaks and creeps

War of the Words

Cruise And Redstone do battle – prepare for a true epic.

Too Fast and Too Furious

Not just Mel, but sanctimonious Hollywood, too

Radio Provocateur

Phil Hendrie conquers the AM dial one deluded caller at a time. So why can't he get his mug on TV?

Kill Bill... Or Else!

Quentin Tarantino on opening night fever, postpartum depression and the descent from Mt. Everest

The Republicans’ Passion Play

GOP knows Mel’s movie is la bomba for Latinos

Letters

Exorcising Demons

Satan Smoke Filters Through Hollywood

Passion Plays

Lots of smoke, lots of fire

The Ballad of Mel and Jesus

Christ, you know it ain't easy

Sacred Blood

Mel Gibson’s salutary if punishing iconography

The Fatty Arbuckle Memorial Awards for 2003

The Shallow End

Devices and desires in Swimming Pool, plus The Girl From Paris

Crap Circles

Meditations in an Emergency

On Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom

The Patriot Game

Mad Max’s Independence Day

All the World’s a Farm

Chicken Run and other delights from abroad

Truth or Hair

How do you say moo-lay?