Movie Reviews and Previews How to Train Your Dragon soars (again) Live-action remakes of beloved animated films are a crapshoot that usually ends badly, but what happens when you 1) remake a movie that is already legitimately great, and 2) allow the original filmmaker to revisit their own work? It sounds like a recipe for disaster, right? Why remake something that By Sarah • Jun 16, 2025 10:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Real live Toothless (sort of) I’ve lost track of how many Disney live action remakes there have been—and do we count something like Maleficent, which isn’t so much a remake as a reimagining, but still brings an animated world to live action?—and we still have more coming, with Mufasa due this By Sarah • Nov 20, 2024 12:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gerard Butler in Angel Has Fallen Gerard Butler—who is basically Jason Statham without the charm, or Chuck Norris with a Scottish accent—makes a certain kind movie. His movies are dependably bad, his performances are reliably wooden, he never has chemistry with anyone on screen. His movies always feature some combination of the following: Gerard By Sarah • Aug 23, 2019 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Budget John Wick Keanu Reeves is hailed for launching an original action franchise, and rightly so, because in the age of Big IP, that is nearly impossible. But he is not the only actor to front an original action franchise—Gerard Butler has his own original action franchise in the “Fallen” series. You By Sarah • May 17, 2019 03:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gerard Butler in The Vanishing When I first learned that there is a barely-advertised Gerard Butler movie about lighthouse keepers opening on demand this month, I thought for sure this would be a fun watch like Geostorm or Hunter Killer. Boy was I wrong. Turns out, this movie, The Vanishing, is about the Flannan Isles By Sarah • Jan 09, 2019 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gerard Butler in Hunter Killer Before a screening of Gerard Butler’s new submarine thriller, Hunter Killer, I tried to guess which Gerard Butler clichés would make an appearance. I made the following guesses: • Gerard Butler will have an opportunity to kill someone but will not, proving his superior morality • Everyone will love and admire By Sarah • Oct 26, 2018 10:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gerard Butler in Den of Thieves I’m so disappointed. Here I was, hoping Den of Thieves would be a spiritual sequel to Gerard Butler’s last dumb-sh*t movie, Geostorm, but instead it’s a bloated bummer. Den of Thieves is, surprisingly, not completely awful, but it’s so f*cking long it becomes intolerable, By Sarah • Jan 24, 2018 03:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Geostorm: The nonsense movie 2017 deserves The timing could not be worse for Geostorm. They’re saying now that the movie could lose between $50 – $100 million for Warner Bros, Skydance, and RatPac. Is there any good news? Well, it could become a cult classic? Geostorm is the feature film directorial debut of Dean Devlin, producer By Sarah • Oct 25, 2017 11:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Geostorm looks gloriously dumb Sometimes a trailer comes along and lights up your life with how gloriously f*cking dumb the movie looks, and today that trailer is Geostorm, a movie in which Gerard Butler saves us from the weather. In the grand tradition of Twister, Volcano, Dante’s Peak, 2012, The Day After By Sarah • Mar 08, 2017 04:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gerard Butler in London Has Fallen London Has Fallen is a movie in which the leaders of several sovereign nations are explicitly and violently assassinated on camera. Then half the city of London is blown up—particularly, all the “known landmarks”, as opposed to all those unknown ones—and then we spend two hours watching as By Sarah • Mar 04, 2016 01:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gerard Butler in the ridiculous Gods of Egypt Director Alex Proyas recently posted a screed on Facebook in which he rails against film critics and film criticism, saying things like, “…contrary to what a critic should probably be they have no personal taste or opinion, because they are basing their views on the status quo.” Proyas is unhappy By Sarah • Mar 02, 2016 10:42 am
Golden Globes 2016 Helen Mirren didn’t need Gerard Butler at the Globes In general I found the presenter choices kind of frustrating last night. Sure, you can’t stack the deck only with actors from the nominated material, but I wouldn’t have minded seeing, say, Patrick Wilson in slightly-less-scripted action. Or Joshua Jackson. Even give me Heidi Klum up there making By Duana • Jan 11, 2016 04:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gods of an Egypt that is very, very white Two years after Ridley Scott and Exodus got dragged behind the outrage truck for whitewashing ancient Egypt by casting predominately white actors to play Egyptian characters, director Alex Proyas is courting the same controversy with Gods of Egypt, a movie also set in ancient Egypt and starring a bunch of By Sarah • Dec 16, 2015 03:27 pm
Gross Taylor Kinney or Gerard Butler? Some of you got mad at me earlier today when I mentioned in the Lady Gaga post that Taylor Kinney isn’t my flavour because he reminds me of Gerard Butler. You disagreed. Come on. I can’t be the only person who sees this. You really can’t see By Lainey • Jun 05, 2015 03:57 pm
Gorgessity You wish, Spittle Jennifer Lopez f-cked up during her comments while presenting at the Hollywood Film Awards on Friday. Gerard Butler ended up on stage to represent How To Train Your Dragon and he teased her about it up there and for a moment, I worried that he’d go there, that he’ By Lainey • Nov 17, 2014 02:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews He’s not coming back The last time we talked about the (totally unnecessary) Point Break remake, Gerard Butler was signing on to play Bodhi. This movie is an abomination—the remake, not Point Break, which is holy relic of Bad Action Cinema— and I’m halfway convinced that “Point Break remake” is some kind By Sarah • May 07, 2014 11:38 am
