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via Lionsgate Mel Gibson might not be everyone’s favorite actor following the fall from grace that’s seen him become one of the VOD circuit’s most prolific performers, but the two-time Academy Award winner remains capable of starring in the odd gem every now and again, with Dragged Across Concrete perhaps the pick of the litter. Netflix subscribers would seem to be in agreement anyway, seeing as writer and director S. Craig Zahler’s uncompromisingly brutal slow-burning crime thriller has upended expectations to…

Produced, written, directed, designed and largely animated by legendary visual effects maestro Phil Tippett, this extraordinary work, made mostly with stop-motion animation and the odd human performer, has been in production off and on for roughly 30 years – possibly making it cinema’s longest side hustle. Tippett reportedly constructed his grotty, Bosch-ian monsters and set them fighting and futzing about a hellish intricate landscape in his off-time. That was when he wasn’t designing and overseeing robots and creatures…