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Sherlock Holmes Makes Fred a Ritchie Fan
30 December 2009 6:52 PM, PST
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Guy Ritchie may be my secret soul mate after all. I was never a huge fan of his work. His first two were okay, I actually cut him a break on Swept Away and dug Revolver for undermining his own genre. But Sherlock Holmes is so good it.s going to make me rewatch Lock, Stock and Snatch just to get another taste until Sherlock is out on Blu Ray.
Review: Sherlock Holmes
He really is James Bond, able to finesse his way out of any danger. There.s even a Jaws-like adversary who keeps coming back. It is such a confident performance, Downey is not afraid to be an A-hole or just plain gross. Holmes messes with inferior intellects. With Watson, it.s equal banter. The dialogue is so quick you.ll miss jokes the first time around.
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Guy Ritchie | In his own words
26 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST
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The film director, 41, on Madonna, murderers and marmalade
On Madonna
I can understand the whole world is interested in my wife. That's even why I married her (2000)
Asked If His London Pub, The Punchbowl, Overcharges Tourists
I hope so! (2008)
Ordering His Favourite Tipple At The Punchbowl
That's quite a gay shandy, but I figured it's good after a scrap (2009)
On Actor Jason Statham
Apart from the fact that I don't like him, don't trust him and have no respect for him as a chess player, we work quite well together (2005)
After The Birth Of His And Madonna's Son Rocco
He smiles like a bastard! (2000)
Explaining Broad Criticism Of His Film "Revolver"
We got caught up in the zeitgeist of slaggery (2008)
Directing Madonna In "Swept Away"
Can you just drool out of the side of your mouth a bit, darlin'? That's nice (2002)
On Marmalade
It's bitter and sweet, right? Don't get me jam!
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'Sherlock Holmes' Doesn't Suck
23 December 2009 10:45 AM, PST
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We'll admit that our hopes for Guy Ritchie's latest flick, "Sherlock Holmes" were less than high. Can you blame us? Ritchie kind of fell off the map after 2000's "Snatch." Uh, "Swept Away?" "Revolver?" "RocknRolla?" Anyone? Sorry, Guy, we're usually rooting for you, but you haven't given us much to work with lately. So, we cringed and expected the worst with "Sherlock Holmes," even with the all-star cast of Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Rachel McAdams with Mark Strong as a charismatic villain. But it looks like it's not as God-awful as we expected. Maybe Ritchie needed to take a break from writing the same movie over and over aga
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Sherlock Holmes
21 December 2009 8:12 AM, PST
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We all know what happened the last time Guy Ritchie decided to stray from his comfort zone. The result was Swept Away and the least said about that cinematic travesty, the better. It’s plainly obvious that Ritchie isn’t to everybody’s taste either. Regarded by many as a Mockney with a big ego, he seems to anger as many critics as those who embrace him.
I quite liked Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and really enjoyed Snatch. Rock N’ Rolla was a blast to watch, too. I don’t think Guy Ritchie is the saviour of the British film industry but Swept Away and Revolver aside; he has made three films that are hugely entertaining if you don’t take them too seriously.
Sherlock Holmes isn’t a complete departure for Ritchie; it’s still set in London, has its fair share of fight scenes and is laced with dark humour.
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- Alex Wagner
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Sherlock Holmes | Film review
17 December 2009 2:30 PM, PST
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It's a souped-up Victorian crime romp with Holmes and Watson reinvented as wisecracking action heroes
It is, as the great sleuth might have said, a three-pipe problem. How does cackling master-criminal Guy Ritchie keep getting away with it? How on earth did he manage to perpetrate those two egregious crimes Revolver and RocknRolla without getting his collar felt?
This lordly super-villain is well known as a master of disguise, donning a pearly cap and smearing himself with odorous jellied eels to pass as a cockney rapscallion, in which garb this patrician scofflaw carries out his dastardly acts in film studios, before changing back into tweeds and vanishing away to his country estate.
Now he has managed to steal hours of precious time belonging to cinemagoers everywhere for his latest silly escapade. It's a souped-up Victorian crime romp with Holmes and Watson reinvented as wisecracking action heroes, played by Robert Downey Jr
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- Peter Bradshaw
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Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels Blu-ray Review
2 December 2009 8:01 PM, PST
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We’re ten years on in Guy Ritchie’s career, and from all evidence he’s about to turn the corner into pure commercial filmmaking. For most people there’s only one answer to what derailed him, and that is: Madonna. The pre-Madonna years featured Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and Snatch, the Madonna years featured Swept Away and Revolver, and the post-Madonna’s are now Rocknrolla and Sherlock Holmes, which should be one of the big pictures of 2009. My review of Guy’s Ritchie’s first film after this jump.
Lock, Stock is one of the numerous 90’s crime films to come in the wake of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. It’s a genre that burnt itself out rapidly, with only people like Bryan Singer and Christopher McQuarrie proving themselves above the fray. The majority of the genre was overheated pabulum like Things to Do
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- Andre Dellamorte
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Get Yourself Some Snatch
30 November 2009 5:00 AM, PST
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Guy Ritchie's Snatch hits BluRay tomorrow and to celebrate the shootingest and swearingest movie of Ritchies very shooty and sweary career we've got ourselves a prize pack of three Ritchie-related films on BluRay to give away to one lucky reader. What's in there? Snatch, of course, plus Richie's follow up film Revolver and the debut directorial effort from Snatch producer Matthew Vaughn, Layer Cake. Move fast on this one, we're gonna give it away tomorrow. To enter, simply email me here with your best Ritchie-inspired boozy, sweary rant. Remember: It's not just how much you swear, but how well.
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'Twilight' Star Billy Burke To Join His Wife And Daughter In 'Luster'
13 November 2009 3:00 PM, PST
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Twilighters know Billy Burke as the loveable-but-somewhat-clueless Charlie Swan, Bella’s dad in the on-screen saga. But the veteran actor has never been busier than he is now – with a half-dozen side projects and films currently in some stage of development – and is excited to be bringing his real-life wife and daughter into the mix.
“I did a film called ‘Luster,’ that was being done by friends of mine, and we threw that one together in 3 to 4 weeks,” he said of the indie thriller. “It’s a psychological thriller.”
“My wife is actually in it too,” he said with pride, mentioning his actress spouse who recently released “Fix” opposite Olivia Wilde. “My wife, Pollyanna Rose is in it as well. She plays a crazy movie starlet.”
But one reason why Twilighters may want to keep an eye peeled for “Luster” is that it not only features Burke and his wife,
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- Larry Carroll
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Ritchie: 'I'm making Holmes to be popular'
9 November 2009 8:30 AM, PST
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Guy Ritchie has admitted that he took the Sherlock Holmes directing job in order to show that he can make accessible films. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the British director acknowledged that Holmes will attract a bigger audience than his previous movies, which include Snatch, Revolver and RocknRolla. "I've spent too much time messing around in inaccessible, esoteric material," he remarked. "I've never had my day in popular court. Sherlock Holmes will allow me to express my accessible side." Ritchie added (more)
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- By Simon Reynolds
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New Sherlock trailer!
4 November 2009 4:42 AM, PST
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Finally, we have a new look at Sherlock Holmes in a new trailer from MTV. I could only watch the first one, however awesome it was, so many times before I wanted more, and I would say that this trailer is about 60% new footage we haven’t seen before, and has me just as excited as the first.
At this point, after watching lackluster work like Revolver and Rocknrolla, I didn’t really think Guy Ritchie had a movie like this in him, but he’s been greatly aided by
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- Paul Tassi
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Fantastic Fest Review: Crazy Racer
28 September 2009 5:13 PM, PDT
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Remember when you were drunk, Chinese and wanted to be Guy Ritchie? That's pretty much what director Ning Hao was upon starting production on Crazy Racer. And it plays more like Revolver-style than Lock, Stock-style.
In fact, to make the rip-off more apparent, the title screen even rips off the Universal logo that we've all come to know and love.
Of course it's unfair to claim to know what a director was going for while at the same time claiming he didn't achieve it. However, I say that specifically to mean that the film plays like a low-rent version of Guy Ritchie's films. The multiple layers are there, the strange characters are there, and the odd heist concepts are there. They're all there, but the end result is like a party where all of the guests are talking loudly but no one is having the same conversation.
A couple of clumsy hitmen for hire get
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Guy Ritchie signs to direct 'Lobo' for Warner Bros.
3 September 2009 2:00 AM, PDT
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Guy Ritchie and Joel Silver... they've got a love thang goin' on. Little surprise. When I was on-set for "Sherlock Holmes" last year, Guy seemed absolutely delighted by the process and the experience, and Susan Downey, who was there for Silver Films, seemed quite pleased with Guy in return. Early word on "Sherlock Holmes" is strong, and I suspect the film's going to be huge this Christmas. So this puts Ritchie in the enviable position of having bounced back. Not every filmmaker who suffers through a "Swept Away" or a "Revolver" or, god forbid, both in a row, ever gets the
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[DVD Review] Chaos
15 August 2009 10:00 PM, PDT
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While the big names above the title might suggest an a high-octane cops and robbers caper with intelligent plotting and pounding action, you would do well not to be fooled. Shot on the down slope of Wesley Snipes’s career, prior to the upswing of Jason Statham’s, and well into the wilderness of Ryan Phillippe’s, this shockingly lackluster thriller from writer/director Tony Giglio (the man who brought us Soccer Dog) is plodding, predictable, and oh so very boring.
The timing of this project is likely crucial to its blundering inability to resonate on pretty much any level as an engaging thriller. Snipes was neck deep in a legal dispute with New Line (the IRS was still to come) over the debacle that was Blade: Trinity, Phillippe’s marriage to Reese Witherspoon was imploding (the couple would file for divorce a year later), and Statham, who had yet
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- Neil Pedley
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Give your view of the new Sherlock Holmes trailer
19 May 2009 11:39 AM, PDT
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The trailer for Guy Ritchie's new Sherlock Holmes movie is now online - and here it is, in all its glory.
I'm eager to hear what Geek Files readers think so, after viewing the footage, please leave your comments at the bottom of the article.
The movie, due out on December 25 this year, stars Iron Man and Tropic Thunder actor Robert Downey Jr as the legendary fictional detective, Jude Law as his trusted colleague Watson, Rachel McAdams as Holmes' love interest Irene Adler and Mark Strong as the villain Lord Blackwood.
Strong was in Ritchie's 2005 Revolver and last year's RocknRolla. His character Blackwood is an aristocrat and industrialist who claims to possess supernatural powers and leads a cult of satanists.
The villain, based on real-life occultist Aleister Crowley, is linked to a series of murders.
Meanwhile, Professor Moriarty - Sherlock's most notorious foe - puts in a fleeting appearance.
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Anna Faris Stuns at Observe and Report Premiere
8 April 2009 5:45 AM, PDT
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The co-star of Seth Rogen's latest vehicle, Observe and Report, Anna Faris turned heads at last night's premiere in Los Angeles. An actress since the age of 9, Faris has appeared in more than a dozen feature films, including the four Scary Movie movies, and with two comedic performances alongside Ryan Reynolds in Waiting and Just Friends. Faris appeared in several episodes during the final season of Friends and she received wider recognition as an actress following her appearnce in Brokeback Mountain.
Written and directed by Jody Hill, Observe and Report also stars Ray Liotta (Revolver) and features an appearance by up-and-coming comedic actor Danny McBride (Eastbound and Down). While superficially similar to Kevin James' latest project, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Observe and Report has been described as a darker, more mature film, with Rogen commenting:
They're totally different movies.
Observe and Report synopsis courtesy of Warner Bros.:
At the Forest Ridge Mall,
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DVD Round Up, Feb. 3, 2009: ‘Cheers,’ ‘Lucky Ones,’ ‘RocknRolla,’ ‘The Gene Generation’
3 February 2009 7:37 AM, PST
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Chicago – Another week, another edition of HollywoodChicago.com’s legendary Round-Up. Any TV fans out there? Lovers of sci-fi action movies? Afficionados of Rachel McAdams? If you still like Guy Ritchie, raise your hand. Now, all of you, step up to the Round-Up.
“Cheers: The Final Season,” “The Gene Generation,” “The Lucky Ones,” and “RocknRolla” were all released on January 27th, 2009.
“Cheers: The Final Season”
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When people talk about shows going out at the top of their game, they inevitably turn to “Cheers” as a prime example of a series that knew when to turn off the lights and close the bar. Raise a glass to the final season with this amazing 28-episode set. In this season, Sam (Ted Danson) rebuilds the bar after Rebecca (Kirstie Alley) sets it on fire, Norm (George Wendt) gets audited, Cliff (John Ratzenberg) gets promoted, and Lilith leaves Frasier
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DVD Review: Rocknrolla -- Matt thinks it's time for Guy Ritchie to show us something new
26 January 2009
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"RocknRolla" is an achievement in that it's not horrible like Guy Ritchie's previous two films, "Swept Away" and "Revolver". It's a failure in that it's exactly like "Snatch." and "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels" but those films were made ten years ago. Directors, or at least directors with some sort of signature style, need to evolve. By repeating their same old tricks, they make their previous successes into flukes and show us that they're not as talented as we once imagined. I won't go into the plot because it's far too convoluted and Ritchie wouldn't have it any other way (although I really hope he does for "Sherlock Holmes"). The film goes like a checklist through elements of a Ritchie film: Large cast of characters connected through tangential acquaintances? Check. British accents so thick you could drizzle them on
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