gerard butler

Bob Viddick, the grunting, grizzled and scruple-light hitman from the frenetically fun Copshop, informs us at one stage that he received a degree “from the university of common sense”. Is this a good line? It would be a struggle to…

A long time ago in a faraway land, there lived a boy named Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) and he trained a dragon. Raising it as a friend, instead of fighting it as his fellow villagers expected, we witness the transformation of our protagonist from…

First Olympus fell, then London fell. Now Angel has fallen. As naming conventions go this franchise sure likes to think outside the box. In all other respects these films have traditionally thought as much and as hard as a sleepwalker. …

A 140-minute-long movie in which 50 Cent plays a lead role: surely there is no way this could be watchable I told myself as I walked into Den of Thieves. Two and a half hours later, I emerged pleasantly surprised and with a renewed belief…

Ten years have passed since the ill-advised adaptation of Irish author Cecelia Ahern’s bestselling novel P.S. I Love You was blasted into the world by a thoroughly American production team with an Americanised view of what Ireland is. While…

Any film that features both Geoffrey Rush shooting a space snake with a laser spear and Gerard Butler transforming into a robo-griffin should, if nothing else, be fun. Kitsch, sure, stupid definitely, but still, this shouldn't be dull. The…