Finally Gerard Butler’s excellent disasteroid / cometastrophe film Greenland has a UK release date. The Amazon Exclusive is out on Prime Video on 5 February – and it’s the perfect pandemic distraction, if like me your first movie watch when Lockdown 1.0 loomed last spring was Contagion. The film follows John Garrity (Butler), his wife… Greenland’s UK date of doom announced! Watch the trailer now Read More
2020: That Was The Year That Wasn’t…
…but also so long they named it twice. One pandemic. Two national lockdowns. Three release dates for No Time To Die. It’s quite fitting that my first and last reviews of 2020 were about family: Little Women, a story about holding on to yourself and your identity, whatever life throws at you; and The Midnight… 2020: That Was The Year That Wasn’t… Read More
The Midnight Sky: it’s written in the stars
I never expected to be comparing George Clooney’s cerebral offering The Midnight Sky to Gerard Butler’s fellow cataclysmic doom-movie Greenland, but we are where we are: in the middle of a pandemic, seeking solace in End Times drama. I talk about the implications of The Midnight Sky spoiler at the start, so you can stop… The Midnight Sky: it’s written in the stars Read More
Greenland: how it ends
It’s the end of the world as we know it, but how does everybody feel? This article is about who stepped up (or not) in Greenland and why, and it’s naturally very spoilery up to and including the ending, so if you’re just after my 4-star review it’s here. Greenland is getting a sequel — find… Greenland: how it ends Read More
Greenland interviews: “It wasn’t your typical hero who’s going up there to punch a comet in the face”
Wait, what? Is this a Gerard Butler film or isn’t it? Disasteroid flick Greenland – out in the US on 18 December online, and in the UK early in 2021 [UPDATE: 5 FEB] – is not, it turns out, your typical disaster film. Read my 4-star review and article here Director Ric Roman Waugh sees… Greenland interviews: “It wasn’t your typical hero who’s going up there to punch a comet in the face” Read More
Gerard Butler is BACK as Banning: fourth installment announced
Is 2020 finally cutting us some slack? They say good things come in threes, and what a week this has been. First Biden / Harris win the US election. Then a COVID-19 vaccine is announced. And now… there’s a new Has Fallen film. Okay so not always in threes, as this is Gerard Butler’s fourth… Gerard Butler is BACK as Banning: fourth installment announced Read More
BLOG: epic trolling as the film club watches Beowulf & Grendel
This is by no means the first fantasy starring Gerard Butler that I’ve enjoyed but I think it’s the first I’ve seen on screen. My Good-Bad Film Club companion Liz adores Game of Thrones, and Beowulf & Grendel – which came out in 2005 – is surely its precursor. I’m always behind the zeitgeist and… BLOG: epic trolling as the film club watches Beowulf & Grendel Read More
BLOG: doggedly searching
This was a search term used to get to my site today, and really a filmmaker needs to make a movie with this title: I can see it now: a hugely rich American family employ a mysterious man with a slightly over-the-top English accent to serve their pampered pooches. Then he disappears, taking their favourite… BLOG: doggedly searching Read More
Disasteroid movie Greenland going straight to PVOD in the US
UPDATE: UK RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCED. More here *** Check out these Greenland interviews with Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Scott Glenn and Ric Roman Waugh *** It’s already been moved more times than me weeping over a TikTok about kittens, and finally apocalyptic comet movie Greenland has given up the ghost and will be going straight… Disasteroid movie Greenland going straight to PVOD in the US Read More
BLOG: Law Abiding Citizen gives us the People’s Choice Hannibal Lecter
Killing with abandon, he doesn’t even leave his prison cell. And while all Clyde Shelton munches is the scenery and a decent steak, he does then murder his cell-mate with the bone. It was another Good-Bad Film Club evening last night, and I’ll not lie, this one – chosen purely for Gerard Butler – was… BLOG: Law Abiding Citizen gives us the People’s Choice Hannibal Lecter Read More
Greenland joins Wonder Woman 1984 with a pushed-back release date
Both Wonder Woman 1984, and Greenland 1998 (just kidding) have been put back to later this year. Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman sequel is now scheduled to open in the UK on Boxing Day and in the US on Christmas Day, and Greenland has an an yet-unannounced fourth-quarter release planned. Gerard Butler’s comet survival movie has… Greenland joins Wonder Woman 1984 with a pushed-back release date Read More
Spartan epic 300 gets a 4K Ultra HD release this October
The film – about the Battle of Thermopylae – is out on blu-ray on 5 October and om digital on 6 October. The disc set will contain an Ultra HD Blu-ray disc with the feature film in 4K with HDR, and a Blu-ray disc of 300. The digital version will be available in 4K Ultra HD…. Spartan epic 300 gets a 4K Ultra HD release this October Read More