Sep 4, 2011
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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SEPT. 9
All's Faire in Love
A college football star has to make up for his many absences by working at a Renaissance fair, where he falls for an aspiring actress. With Christina Ricci, Owen Benjamin, Cedric the Entertainer and Matthew Lillard. Written...
Sep 7, 2011
|Story| WGN-TV
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WGN News
Gerard Butler became a house hold name after his appearance in "300." Since then, he's racked up a list of starring roles from romantic comedies along side Hilary Swank, Katherine Heigl and Jennifer Aniston among others and to the popular animated film,...
Sep 25, 2011
|Story| RedEye
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RedEye movie critic
Compared to Sam Childers, the man he plays in the film “Machine Gun Preacher,” Gerard Butler calls himself, “a little puppy Laborador.” It’s not hard to see why.
Childers—a former drug dealer who has saved thousands of...
Sep 28, 2011
|Column| KSWB-LTV
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Prepare to feast on five unique festivals this weekend in San Diego, featuring entertainment perks for all lifestyle tastes. Star-watch and contemplate premieres during the San Diego Film Festival; rock out on the streets of Little Italy at the...
Sep 28, 2011
|Story| RedEye
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RedEye movie critic
**1/2 (out of four)
After “The Bounty Hunter,” “Law Abiding Citizen,” “The Ugly Truth,” and “P.S. I Love You” (to name just a few), I anticipate a new Gerard Butler movie like a kick in the face....
Sep 29, 2011
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
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Orlando Sentinel Movie Critic
Marc Forster was fresh from directing a James Bond film when he first heard the story of "Machine Gun Preacher" Sam Childers. Here was a tale of a biker and drug dealer turned rescuer of African orphans, battling Sudanese guerrilla groups. Even a guy used...
Jul 20, 2011
|Story| Metromix
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RedEye movie critic
***1/2 (out of four)
The reason Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl weren’t cast: Dylan (Justin Timberlake) is no arrogant chauvinist, and Jamie (Mila Kunis) is no needy hot mess. They’re sure they can maintain their friendship while...
Jul 27, 2011
|Story| Daily American
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Daily American Staff Writer
The Rev. Sam Childers, pastor of Shekinah Fellowship in Reels Corner, hopes the movie about his life inspires people to do good in their own hometowns.
“I was a scum-bucket, the lowest person on earth,” Childers said in a telephone interview...
May 28, 2011
|Story| Chicago Tribune
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Sep 30, 2011
| Zap2It
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Ministry of Gossip
Heidi Klum and Sandra Bullock got their party on together at Beacher's Mad House in Hollywood. Read about Marilyn Manson and Derek Hough sightings, along with finding out what AC/DC tune Heidi Klum and Sandra Bullock were rocking out to over drinks....
Oct 2, 2011
| Orlando Sentinel
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Frankly My Dear - Orlando Sentinel
Gritty, gory and violent, “Machine Gun Preacher” is a better action picture than it is an uplifting story about a violent man who found religion and a cause and became better for it. Because that, this Marc Forster film suggests, just isn't...
Oct 14, 2011
| Orlando Sentinel
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Frankly My Dear - Orlando Sentinel
The submarine-set Russian coup thriller “Hunter Killer” drew Antoine Fuqua as its director after he gave up on making a Tupac Shakur bio-pic. Now it's landing that “Machine Gun Preacher,” Gerard Butler, as its leading man. Here's...
