Review – The Gentlemen

Guy Ritchie returns to his cult cockney gangster genre with a surprisingly entertaining film that reaches near parody at times, but is easily justified by the work of Hugh Grant and Colin Farrell
Read moreGuy Ritchie returns to his cult cockney gangster genre with a surprisingly entertaining film that reaches near parody at times, but is easily justified by the work of Hugh Grant and Colin Farrell
Read moreGuy Ritchie is heading back to his cockney gangster film roots after a foray into bigger Hollywood blockbusters (King Arthur and Aladdin to name but two). The Gentleman will be his new film, hitting the screens in 2020, featuring Hugh Grant, Matthew McConaughey and Charlie Hunnam. It looks a lot like his previous work, and the trailer is here…
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Read more‘P’ in the Alphabet Challenge (Alphabet Challenge) takes us to the 1994 Quentin Tarantino masterpiece crime epic ‘Pulp Fiction’. This 154 minute classic tale of gangsters in some unexpected situations, was Tarantino’s second directorial effort after 1992’s low budget independent ‘Reservoir Dogs’. For this one, he was operating with a bigger budget, a broader cast, but more importantly the cinema
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