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As most of you know, Mel Gibson has not exactly been having a good last few years. The award winning actor/director used to be the blue-eyed favourite son of  Hollywood, but one domestic violence charge and recorded antisemitic conversation with his Russian girlfriend later, and he had been transformed from power player to pariah. Because of his rage-induced slurrings, he …

You’ve got to love Mel Gibson, most likely for all the wrong reasons. The man has portrayed some iconic roles on the silver screen, the majority of which have had a high level of masochistic acting in them, and every time he seems to get public goodwill back on his side after another escapade gone wrong, he somehow manages to …

First G4TV’s Olivia Munn landed herself a small role in Iron Man 2, and now it looks like she has just been picked up to be on The Daily Show. A shining beacon for girl gamers no doubt and not such a bad choice for a header image either (although there are some haters, link below). Today’s other news involves …

Mel Gibson, the Quastralian Actor who so enthralled us in Mad Max then made us giggle in Lethal Weapon has slid right off the deep end. Dude’s gone proper crazy. He’s been in the news a lot lately, mostly for his racist and misogynistic rants. Oh, and allegedly threatening to set ex-girlefriend Oksana Grigorieva’s house on fire. Now though, he’s …