How Conor McGregor was the role model for King Arthur: Legend of the Sword –...
Guy Ritchie’s take on the Arthurian legend stars Charlie Hunnam as the mythical British monarch – here Ritchie and Hunnam explain how MMA fighter McGregor was crucial in their conception of the...
View ArticleCharlie Hunnam: ‘When Beckham came on set, tough guys turned into little...
In King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, the Sons of Anarchy star reunites with Queer as Folk co-star Aidan Gillen – did they manage to survive a set full of jujitsu hardmen? Hello Charlie. In Guy...
View ArticleKing Arthur: Legend of the Sword review – medieval banter, slapdash mythology
Guy Ritchie’s film is low on originality, but might please devotees of his shtickCharlie Hunnam is a handsome, hulking blond whose easy charm seems familiar, but implacable. Then I remember where I’ve...
View ArticleKing Arthur; Baywatch; The Red Turtle; 3 Hearts and more – review
Guy Ritchie’s sword-and-sorcery epic and a remake of a 90s camp classic fall flat while there are delights for young and old alike elsewhereAs the days shorten, outfits lengthen and autumn greets us...
View ArticleSnatch: a cock-er-nee gangster tale that’s a right load of old pony
Guy Ritchie’s tale of bare-knuckle boxing, diamonds and geezers is transplanted to the small screen. They really shouldn’t have gone to the Barney RubbleBlimey fellas, strike a light – the cockney...
View ArticleBritish cinema’s exclusion of the young, skint and state educated is a...
The 1963 arrival of Billy Liar looked like the beginnings of a more democratic, working-class film industry. So why are we still stuck with polite social realism and sniggery classism?Billy Liar always...
View ArticleViolence! Vinnie Jones! What we can expect from Guy Ritchie's Aladdin
With the Snatch film-maker’s live-action adaptation of the Disney film on its way, what will his ‘non-traditional’ take on the tale be like? We’ve got a few ideas...[Slow-motion chase through a market...
View ArticleA whole new world: does the new Aladdin fetishise Middle Eastern culture?
Guy Ritchie’s new film evokes a fantasy Arabia, following Hollywood’s long tradition of problematic stereotypes A new Aladdin movie means a return to Hollywood’s perennial Arab problem, which in this...
View ArticleAladdin review – live-action remake really takes flight
Guy Ritchie’s adaptation is lively, colourful and genuinely funny – making only judicious tweaks to the original, it’s thankfully not a whole new worldThe scimitars are out for Disney’s live-action...
View ArticleAladdin review – can’t put the genie back in the bottle
Guy Ritchie’s live-action remake of the 90s Disney animation fails to capture the magicI understand why in 2019, Aladdin would seem ripe for a revival – in Disney’s 1992 animated musical, its heroine,...
View ArticleThe Gentlemen trailer – how ridiculous can Guy Ritchie's new movie get?
The director goes back to his crime caper roots, firing Matthew McConaughey and Colin Farrell at Downton’s Michelle Dockery and a cockney Hugh Grant. Sort that outGuy Ritchie is course-correcting....
View ArticleThe Gentlemen review – Guy Ritchie returns to his signature style
Another dose of geezer-gangstery made all the more watchable by star turns from Matthew McConaughey and Hugh GrantThe gentlemen are also the players in this typically class-conscious film by...
View ArticleThe Gentlemen review – Guy Ritchie’s dated gangster romp
Matthew McConaughey, Michelle Dockery and Hugh Grant are amusingly cast, but that doesn’t excuse the casual racismGuy Ritchie’s latest gangster comedy presents itself as a harmless romp, but behind its...
View ArticleMy favourite film aged 12: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
With four-letter words and violence by the bucketload, Guy Ritchie’s gangster flick had everything a 12-year-old boy could want – and it still doesRead all the other My favourite film choicesWhen I was...
View ArticleHoly grail or poisoned chalice: why does Hollywood always mess up King Arthur?
Zack Snyder looks set to pull the sword from the franchise stone – but will it be another Hollywood fart in the Arthurian mythos’s general direction?It’s a popular lament in the comment section of this...
View ArticleHear me out: why King Arthur: Legend of the Sword isn't a bad movie
The latest in our series of writers making a case for a mostly loathed movie is a defence of Guy Ritchie’s laddish take on a well-told legendThe catastrophic box office performance and scathing reviews...
View ArticleWrath of Man review – Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham reunite in punchy thriller
While hinged on a threadbare plot as familiar as it is forgettable, this sinewy action B-movie delivers just about enough primal entertainmentThe making of Jason Statham, from wheeler-dealer to swimmer...
View ArticleThe Guardian view on a chess renaissance: it’s not black and white | Editorial
Pandemic boredom drove many to the game, and The Queen’s Gambit piqued the interest of more. Will it last?The grand, historic but occasionally lampooned sport of chess believes its moment has come,...
View ArticleTalents of Madonna’s son divide critics after he is revealed as secret artist
Rocco Ritchie, 21, has been selling his paintings for up to five figures under the mysterious pseudonym RhedHe is a mysterious, up-and-coming artist whose work has been championed by the likes of...
View ArticleSkate parks and shooting cabins: do the super-rich care nothing for their...
Let no one stand in the way of the property ambitions of Guy Ritchie and coSupposing the one per cent read newspapers, some of them may have become dimly aware of a cultural glut, last week examined by...
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