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25 Nov

Fatman: Why Mel Gibson Found Christmas Spirit at the End of a Gun

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Sometimes you find the Spirit of Christmas in the strangest of places. For brothers Eshom and Ian Nelms, it was at an awards season screening of Hacksaw Ridge in December 2016. The pair had already been dreaming of Fatman and its desperado Santa Claus for more than a decade when they attended the event. But they weren’t there that night for Santa; they came for a Q&A with Mel Gibson, the mercurial filmmaker who seemed to be on the cusp of reconciliation with Hollywood. Arriving to his own screening renewed and happy, and with a bushy gray beard worthy of…
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23 Nov

Fatman Review: Mel Gibson as Santa is Not Your Normal Christmas Story

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It’s almost a certainty that you’ve never seen a Christmas movie like Fatman. You know how they wanted to make all superhero films in that “gritty, realistic” style that Christopher Nolan turned into billions of dollars with the Dark Knight trilogy? In Fatman, writers/directors Ian and Eshom Nelms (Small Town Crime) take the greatest superhero of them all, Santa Claus, and transform him into a struggling, borderline alcoholic curmudgeon who may lose his business, and has a killer after him to boot. That’s right: As played by a more grizzled than usual Mel Gibson, whose voice emanates from somewhere deep…
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