Crime and aristocracy go hand in hand in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen. His long-form television expansion of the 2019 gangster film was a smash hit when it arrived on Netflix in 2024, taking the original concept and narrative and sending it in a wild, outrageous direction, with absolutely zero filter and a whole heap of […]
‘The Gentlemen’ – Season One – Guy Ritchie Serves Up a Bloody Good Time – Review
Guy Ritchie has always understood that crime is considerably more entertaining when conducted in a tailored suit. With The Gentlemen, Ritchie returns to the criminal underworld he knows so well, expanding the world of his 2019 film into an eight-part Netflix series that trades London’s backstreets for sprawling country estates, aristocratic dinner parties and a […]
SpicyPulp’s Top 10 Films of 2020
2020. What a year. This one surely belongs in the history books, and cinema, I’m afraid, was certain to never to be the same again. We lost a lot this year, and this was certainly true for the art of film and the cinema, with many of this year’s biggest releases pushed off to the […]
SpicyPulp’s Top 10 Films of 2019
What a year it has been for cinema! We’ve seen some amazing feats of cinema brought to the big screen this year and now, in what is becoming an annual tradition, we’re counting down our favourite films of 2019. 10. Tolkien The life and legacy of one of literature’s greatest ever storytellers, John Ronald Reuel […]
‘The Gentlemen’ – Review
Get ready to take a stroll back down the good old alley of classic cockney gangster crime drama because visionary director Guy Ritchie has returned to the old school here with The Gentlemen and it makes for one gnarly time at the cinema. A British drug (McConaughey) lord tries to sell off his highly profitable […]
Guy Ritchie brings the swagger in ‘The Gentlemen’
It’s been a particularly awesome year for director Guy Ritchie, not only has he dominated the box office with Aladdin, which is far and away my favourite of all the live action Disney films, but the English director is returning to his gangster movie roots with The Gentlemen and this looks like a lot of […]
