
Mine, to my eternal shame, is Gerard Butler. Darcy, every Phanatic - that would be fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, geddit? - has their preferred Phantom. Me? I’m a Macfadyen girl, which may give you some indication of where this essay is going.

That’s but a small sampling of this Scottish export’s quarter-century run - whose body of work will be highlighted biweekly this month in a retrospective series.Įvery woman my age or a little older has their preferred Mr. Instinct tells us otherwise: People really love Gerard Butler.ĭisfigured catacomb vocalist. SEO tells us the piece’s popularity is thanks to its reference of one character’s inscrutable “Peckerwood” tattoo. No one piece has persisted as powerfully as our 2018 review of Den of Thieves, which we called an “unswervingly painful” waste of 140 minutes. Since 2017, Midwest Film Journal has prided itself on delivering thoughtful commentary on current and classic cinema.
