Next Monday’s Academy screening + reception for Mel Gibson‘s Hacksaw Ridge (Lionsgate/Summit, 11.4) will be a kind of socially-ratifying ritual affirming the general presumption that Gibson is out of the doghouse. I’ll be at the Savannah Film Festival that night, so I’ve been given a chance to catch the World War II saga a bit earlier. Much obliged.
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Lobby standee inside West Hollywood’s Grove plex, snapped last night (Monday, 10.17).
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