Discussing the movies of our Greatest Living Scotsman, Gerard Butler. From Mike Banning to Beowulf and beyond – brought to you by movie site cautionspoilers.com.
Trying to stay a day ahead of the devil, this time we’re delving into Gerard Butler’s latest release, the funny, bloody and bullet-strewn B-movie delight that is Copshop. Butler plays “legendary” Bob Viddick, a hired and highly skilled assassin, though he’s not very Wick-like. Smelling “like the devil's a*****e”, Bob doesn’t see killing as an art. Wick was known for killing three men in a bar with a pencil, Bob Viddick once beat a man to death with the victim’s own severed leg. Effectiv...
27 Sept 2021
Dracula 2000
So good they name it twice — Dracula 2000, then a few months later in 2001, Dracula 2001 — this phenomenal (pheromonal?) Butler bloodfest positions Dracula as Judas Escariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. Woken from his enforced slumbers, the undead hottie hits New Orleans, tracking down Mary Van Helsing (Justine Waddell) and her friend Lucy (Colleen Fitzpatrick, otherwise known as Vitamin C). Joining me to talk about the film, and much else besides, is criti...
14 May 2021
Law Abiding Citizen
Horribly violent. Morally bankrupt. Batshit from the first minutes. And I say that as someone that liked Law Abiding Citizen. This time I chatted to the delightful Harris Dang, all the way from Australia, about this B-movie thriller from 2009. Gerard Butler plays Clyde Shelton, a mysterious man seeking revenge a decade after his wife and child were brutally murdered in a home invasion. His target isn’t just Ames and Darby, the two killers; he’s also after Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), the pro...
26 Apr 2021
Olympus Has Fallen
This time I'm discussing the first movie outing of Secret Service agent Mike Banning, a man who attracts president-related disasters like I attract dog hair from my cream retriever when I've just put on new black trousers for a job interview. He's on a boring desk job at the US Treasury (Mike, not my dog), having failed to save the First Lady from an icy, watery grave. But when a North Korean terrorist overwhelms the White House and takes President Asher hostage, it's left to Mike to s...
9 Apr 2021
Coriolanus
Coriolanus in the streets, Aufidius in the sheets... That's our decision, and we're sticking to it. Fascinating, cultured, and sometimes a little too scratchy — me, and also my Gerrystorm podcast episode on CORIOLANUS. This is episode 5, and while my guest Paula and I have gone all Shakespearean I can assure you there isn't a hey nonny nonny, thigh slap or 17th century fart joke in sight. Coriolanus came out in 2011, and stars Gerard Butler as General Tullus Aufidius, and Ralph Fiennes ...
26 Mar 2021
Nim's Island
Cancel culture! Rip-off sequels! God! And what actually happens when you're swallowed by a whale! Just some of the insights my guest - 9 year old Cassian - offered up when we explored Nim's Island. I am pretty good at knowing the limits of my own knowledge, so it was only right that I get an expert in. Amazingly I also managed to shock him back with some Tales From The Olden Days, otherwise known as my '70s and '80s childhood. In this 2008 fantasy family adventure Gerard ...
12 Mar 2021
PS I Love You
Talking Sarah through the glories and disasters of their favourite post-millennial, post-mortem romcom is PS I Love You expert and all-round Gerard Butler fan Kate Hudson – a woman who, if Oxford University actually knew anything at all, would instantly be made a GB PhD. And they find that while PS I Love You is often trite, it's also occasionally touched by genius*, both deliberate and accidental. *Not Gerard Butler's Irish accent. Kate brings to the wake a deep love for the "Dead Hu...
25 Feb 2021
Geostorm
Gerrystorm host Sarah and Tim Costa from the First Time Watchers movie podcast take on GEOSTORM – Gerard Butler's sci-fi epic which certainly set the international climate space station, if not the box office, alight when it was released in 2017. We examine the good (Jake's romance in space), the bad (Max's terrible haircut) and the ugly (Max's terrible haircut). Plus: Tim on Roland Emmerich and pets-in-peril, the strange-but-true reason Sarah likes Gerard Butler, and what did happen to...
9 Feb 2021
Greenland
Gerrystorm host Sarah and Get Your Comic On's Neil Vagg chat through Gerard Butler's latest movie, Greenland – a disaster film about the Garrity family's attempt to survive a comet that's on a collision course with Earth. We go deep into Greenland's bleak vs hopeful outlook, discuss who stole the show, and ask why grandparents in disaster movies are just so... stubborn. But even at the end of the world we also want to know all the gossip – who exactly was John Garrity playing away with...
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