Plane review – Gerard Butler’s rickety thriller never takes off
September 2021
Copshop review – lean, mean nailbiter with a pop-culture fetish
Joe Carnahan’s claustrophobic thriller is packed with the satisfying basics: neat setups and payoffs and gratuitous violence
March 2021
Hear me out
Hear me out: why PS I Love You isn't a bad movie
Continuing our series of writers sticking up for loathed films is a defence of the commercially successful yet critically lambasted romance
February 2021
Mark Kermode's film of the week
Greenland review – comet disaster movie with a surprisingly deep impact
Steve Rose on film
Want to survive a disaster movie? You best be a privileged westerner
December 2020
Greenland review – Gerard Butler v comet in solid disaster thriller
The world is ending yet again in an often effective yet overlong adventure that sees a family trying to find safety amid mayhem
August 2019
Angel Has Fallen review – on the run from the Russians
Gerard Butler’s Secret Service agent is framed by Moscow in the tasteless third film in the franchise
Angel Has Fallen: is Gerard Butler Hollywood's weirdest action hero?
Inane, profane and wholly humourless, the Fallen trilogy would be in movie hell – were it not for the thirsty work of its star
Angel Has Fallen review – Gerard Butler's pyrotechnics fizzle out
In the latest overblown instalment of the Fallen franchise, Butler’s beleaguered secret service agent goes on the run, seeking out unintelligible dad Nick Nolte
March 2019
The Vanishing review – windswept lighthouse mystery
Three lighthouse keepers make an astonishing discovery on a remote Scottish island in this tense and powerful thriller
October 2018
Hunter Killer review – Gerard Butler's sub commander is all at sea
Gerard Butler's Pentagon briefing and other grandiose film campaigns
July 2018
Steve Rose on film
The Lamest Showmen: why can’t male actors sing?
As the new Mamma Mia! hits cinemas, we explore why male actors hit the bum notes in modern movie musicals
March 2018
Nicola Sturgeon will 'explore all options' to halt Scottish Youth Theatre closure
First minister says impending shutdown of theatre group, which failed to secure funding Creative Scotland, is ‘of serious concern’
February 2018
Den of Thieves review – musclebound cops-and-robbers face-off
Gerard Butler’s team of tough-guy ’tecs take on a gang of audacious LA outlaws in this warmed-up throwback to Heat
November 2017
From The Room to Geostorm: how to make a movie so bad that people will love it
Terrible films are 10 a penny, but making something as magnificently, joyously awful as Showgirls or The Snowman? That takes real skill. Here are the rules of the Truly Bad Movie
October 2017
Geostorm review – Gerard Butler's dull disaster movie is a washout
An ill-timed action thriller about a rogue weather-controlling system is as clunky as its premise and dumber than a street full of hailstones
Gerard Butler: I injected myself with bee venom and ended up in hospital
Scottish actor went into anaphylactic shock after using the traditional remedy after a 12-hour day of performing stunts
Film blog
Is climate change Hollywood's new supervillain?
Eco-thriller Geostorm, with Gerard Butler as a weather-busting scientist, is the latest movie to battle the environment. From Blade Runner 2049 to Alexander Payne’s Downsizing, film are turning up the heat on the big screen
