Welcome to GERRYSTORM, the podcast dedicated to the filmography of our Greatest Living Scotsman, Gerard Butler. Scroll down for more on all GERRYSTORM episodes, and how to listen, or check out the latest episode below. Warning: all GERRYSTORM podcast episodes are very spoilery (there’s also a synopsis at the start of each episode if you… The Gerrystorm podcast: from Banning to Beowulf and beyond Read More
Greenland’s UK date of doom announced! Watch the trailer now
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. Is Greenland a disaster movie? A… Greenland: how it ends Read More
Greenland 4 stars
As a comet heads to Earth, a family tries to make their way to safety in Greenland. Despite the early Greenland trailers heralding something out of the ’90s (and how many of us expected Gerard Butler to stab the comet in the head before telling it to “go back to Alpha fucking Centauri”?) the film… Greenland 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
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
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
Here to take your mind off the apocalypse, Gerard Butler flees an apocalypse in Greenland trailer
UPDATE: UK RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCED. More here *** My 4-star review and article are now live. Or check out these Greenland interviews with Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Scott Glenn and Ric Roman Waugh *** Gerard Butler is back to save the world, well his family anyway. And thank god he’s here. If COVID-19 is anything… Here to take your mind off the apocalypse, Gerard Butler flees an apocalypse in Greenland trailer Read More