Gentlemanly warfare: Guy Ritchie's gangster etiquette in 8 films and 2 TV shows

The A.V. Club— Guy Ritchie’s two-and-a-half-decade career as a filmmaker has been a bit of a mixed bag, and that’s being generous. No one really wants to be pigeonholed, but the fact is that some artists are especially suited to one particular genre, and they do their best work when they stick to it. For Ritchie, that genre is quintessentially British crime capers. Since launching his career with the one-two punch that was Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch (released in 1998 and 2000), Ritchie has...

VG247—“I would do it all over again right now” Creating the cool Fallout fan film that dropped just before Amazon’s TV show. “I remember the first three days, everything was so perfect,” Fallout: Deadweight writer and director Nigel Kim tells me. “Everything we got was so perfect that I was having the most fun of my entire life just being there on that set.”“The last day we kind of hit some production snags, and in the very last 30 minutes of the project,” he continues, “we were rushing, we were trying to get the shot with the stimpak, and it breaks.”“It drops and shatters into a million pieces in front of me, and,...

Hollywood in Toto—'Fall Guy' Dumbs Down '80s TV Show Way Down. 'Idiocracy,' indeed. Mike Judge's 2006 classic predicted the dumbing down of society. If Hollywood has its way, we'll get there sooner than later. And we can partly blame 'The Fall Guy.' The action comedy lifts its title and main character from the Lee Majors TV show. The action romp does what 99 percent of modern blockbusters do - reduce the source material to endless action and stupefying storylines. We're not expecting a 'Fall Guy' movie to quote Shakespeare, but for the love of all that's...

Vulture—What’s Leaving Netflix in May 2024: Movies, TV Shows. The Hunger Games, Split, The Great Gatsby, and more.