So you’ve awoken to some distressing news – it’s the zombie apocalypse. The people on the telly are urging you lock your doors and steer clear of individuals with chunks of their head missing, as if they’re the kind of folk you’d usually invite in for tea and biscuits. To make matters worse, your once-lovely girlfriend has just tried to eat your face, which might have been a [...]

Thomas Craven is a man of impulse and no consequence. Your daughter being shot to death would do that to you. Especially if she was standing beside you on the front porch. So begins Mel Gibson’s first acting appearance since 2002, as a father seeking revenge (or answers) for his daughter’s death. As the second adaptation of a BBC series this summer (following January’s In The Loop), Edge Of Darkness holds a mix of British and American filmmaking, but the merger fails to deliver.