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What to stream this weekend: 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,' 'Mandalorian' UPI News Service, 12/18/2020  Chadwick Boseman's final performance in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, the Season 2 finale of The Mandalorian and Kristen Wiig returning to Saturday Night Live as a guest host, are happening this weekend. ADVERTISEMENT In addition, Gerard Butler deals with an extinction-level event in Greenland, Disney explores the School of American Ballet in On Pointe and Creepshow presents a horror-themed holiday special. Here's a rundown on some of the films, television shows and holiday special...

Directed by Ric Roman Waugh. Starring Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, David Denman, Hope Davis, Roger Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn, Andrew Bachelor, Merrin Dungey, Holt McCallany, Gary Weeks, Tracey Bonner, Joshua Mikel, Cate Jones, Mike Gassaway, Anissa Matlock, Randall Archer, Scott Poythress, Claire Bronson, and Madison Johnson. SYNOPSIS: Given the history of recent Gerard Butler B-grade action flicks I half expected that Greenland would see the scruffy and imposing physical specimen of an actor find some way to take out the comet by either screaming at it or punching it in a violent drunken r...

Review: ‘Greenland’ delivers a Giant Comet 2020, extinction-level event [Los Angeles Times] Ever seen one of those “Giant Comet 2020” joke political bumper stickers? That’s essentially the premise of “Greenland,” a disaster thriller starring Gerard Butler, helmed by his “Angel Has Fallen” director Ric Roman Waugh. The title and premise conjure up visions of heaving CGI glaciers, “Day After Tomorrow”-style catastrophically climate-changed weather events, and one man who tries to stop them all. But the script, by Chris Sparling, is refreshingly scaled to human size, and af...

Delivering the apocalypse on a budget, the disaster film Greenland dramatises the end of the world with no-nonsense efficiency. Gerard Butler’s sturdy performance is perfectly suited to the modest proceedings: Playing a husband and father trying to protect his family as a doomsday comet rockets toward Earth, the B-movie star exudes just the right amount of weathered weariness and rumpled vulnerability. Those hoping for the spectacle of a 2012 or the swagger of an Armageddon will be disappointed, but director Ric Roman Waugh gives the story a consistent tautness, which helps make up for ...

Print Ever seen one of those “Giant Comet 2020” joke political bumper stickers? That’s essentially the premise of “Greenland,” a disaster thriller starring Gerard Butler, helmed by his “Angel Has Fallen” director Ric Roman Waugh. The title and premise conjure up visions of heaving CGI glaciers, “Day After Tomorrow”-style catastrophically climate-changed weather events, and one man who tries to stop them all. But the script, by Chris Sparling, is refreshingly scaled to human size, and after living through the events of 2020, the chaos and capriciousness of human decision-maki...