Netflix‘s new Guy Ritchie series The Gentlemen may sound like a remake, but it’s set in the same universe as the director’s 2019 film of the same name. Despite not featuring the original cast members — Matthew McConaughey, Colin Farrell, Jeremy Strong, Hugh Grant, Henry Golding, and Charlie Hunnam — the show incorporates many of the same elements of the original, namely the marijuana empire first introduced by McConaughey’s character Michael Pearson in the film. As the American expat attempts to sell off his business, a series of plots, schemes, bribery, blackmail, and more ensue, as gangsters and the like attempt to steal the organization out from under him. (Credit: Netflix) In the 2024 outing, Theo James steps into the lead role as Duke of Halstead, Eddie Horniman, the estranged son of an English aristocrat. Eddie soon finds himself embroiled in a world of criminality when he discovers the underground...
- 3/6/2024
- TV Insider
Chicago – Currently touring the film festival circuit, the new film “Unfriending” … by writer/director/brothers Brett and Jason Butler … is a pitch black comedy on our weirdly filtered world today. The Canadian filmmakers are veterans of five features, and have been building their reputations since the mid-2000s.
The film centers on Blake (Sean Meldrum) and his girlfriend May (Simone Jetsun), as they host a dinner party for their closest friends, including Blake’s oldest friend, Isaac (Alex Stone). The dinner party is actually a set up for a “life intervention” for Isaac, where the friend group tells him all the reasons he has become a burden to them and society in general, and that he should really just kill himself already. This black comedy is a razor sharp satire on cancel culture and the current me generation in general.
'Unfriending,' Written and Directed by Brett & Jason Butler
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The film centers on Blake (Sean Meldrum) and his girlfriend May (Simone Jetsun), as they host a dinner party for their closest friends, including Blake’s oldest friend, Isaac (Alex Stone). The dinner party is actually a set up for a “life intervention” for Isaac, where the friend group tells him all the reasons he has become a burden to them and society in general, and that he should really just kill himself already. This black comedy is a razor sharp satire on cancel culture and the current me generation in general.
'Unfriending,' Written and Directed by Brett & Jason Butler
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- 8/26/2023
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
When was the last time you watched Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels? If you remember Guy Ritchie’s debut hitting American screens back in the spring of 1999, you might recall how familiar it felt — we’d already spent most of the decade watching smooth criminals in clever, chatty caper flicks. But this Cockney variation on postmodern pulp stood out among the many Cinema Tarantino pretenders of the day, threading in nods to mod U.K. classics (The Italian Job, Performance), vintage London gangster flicks (The Long Good Friday) and East End hard-men chic.
- 1/22/2020
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
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