Tag Archives: Gerard Butler

Copshop review — B-movie siege thriller hits every target

September 27, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Joe Carnahan | Written by Carnahan, Kurt McLeod, and Mark Williams | 107 min | Amazon Prime Action director Carnahan is on a bit of a roll given his last picture, time-loop thriller Boss Level, was quite a bit of fun. This time out he reteams with Frank Grillo for a picture that is… Read More

Greenland review — Entertaining end-of-the-world movie

February 18, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Ric Roman Waugh | Written by Chris Sparling | 119 min | Amazon Prime The presence of Gerard Butler in a feature film these days is usually a sign of a certain kind of popcorn escapism. I admit I haven't kept up with all of his action adventure pictures — I gave up… Read More

How To Train Your Dragon 2 review

June 28, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Don DeBlois, adapted by DeBlois from a book series by Cressida Cowell Steering clear of all things Transformers this week—does anyone really need another one of these Michael Bay monstrosities?—I decided to catch a friendlier looking sequel. I do have to say, there's something kind of shameless when a sequel comes out with… Read More

300: Rise of an Empire review

March 22, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Noam Murro Written by Zack Snyder and Kurt Johnstad, adapting the Frank Miller graphic novel Xerxes To prepare for the sequel to Snyder's 2006 hit movie about the 300 Spartans at the battle of Thermopylae, I went back and watched the original 300 one more time. My feelings about it were deeply ambivalent,… Read More

Olympus Has Fallen review

March 26, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by Antoine FuquaWritten by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin BenediktIt's been awhile since I've seen such an egregiously lunkheaded movie as Olympus Has Fallen. Happy to let its talented cast deliver recycled, leaden dialogue and go through the motions of a recycled, leaden plot, its real failing goes beyond that, because a movie can be… Read More

“Why Are Romantic Comedies So Bad” by The Atlantic’s Christopher Orr

March 15, 2013 flawintheiris

Katherine Heigl—who I, for the record, have never had a problem with, though I've not often loved her movies—and Gerard Butler—who I like to think of as Gerry—in The Ugly Truth Christopher Orr is one of my favourite voices in film criticism. It's rare that I disagree with one of his reviews, and if I… Read More