Kingsman: The Golden Circle is once again directed by English filmmaker Matthew Vaughn, of the first Kingsman: The Secret Service movie, as well as
the films Layer Cake, Stardust, Kick - Ass, and X-Men: First Class previously.
The film doesn't treat our gangster lead like wonderful
films Layer Cake, Donnie Brasco, or Scorsese's Departed / GoodFellas / Gangs of New York with utter demise.
Matthew Vaughn (born 7 March 1971 in London, England) is an English film producer and director known for producing such films as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000) and directing
the films Layer Cake (2004), Stardust (2007) and Kick - Ass (2010).
If subsequent roles in
the films Layer Cake and Alfie weren't enough to get people talking about Miller, her sometime relationship with the latter film's star, Jude Law, certainly helped keep gossip columnists in business.
Kick - Ass is directed with perfect style by Matthew Vaughn, who made the cult gangster
film Layer Cake and the quaint fantasy Stardust, which was also adapted from a graphic novel.
Not exact matches
Daniel Craig is a very well - known British actor, but it wasn't until his early breakout roles in
films like
Layer Cake and Road to Perdition that he ever made it on the radar of American
film watchers.
Like the Harry Potter
films, Matthew Vaughn's (
Layer Cake) treatment does spend an inordinate amount of time on secondary characters and superfluous side stories, to the point where it's hard to discern there being a main story for long durations.
Jennifer Lawrence (2010's «Winter's Bone») is young Mystique / Raven Darkholme and Jason Flemyng (who has had roles in three of Vaughn's
films, including «
Layer Cake») is demonic mutant Azazel.
and every bit the
film that Ocean's Eleven should have been,
Layer Cake takes on the raffish personality of Craig's professional cad, gliding through its convoluted plot with the grace of a brass - knuckled ballerina.
Davis has amassed a wide variety of credits, ranging from Mathew Vaughn
films (beginning with
Layer Cake) to a trio of Marvel features (the first installment of Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Doctor Strange).
Not that
Layer Cake is a bad
film — it's just a bit on the stagnant side at times.
Vaughn, who began as a producer for Guy Ritchie's
films and now, after
Layer Cake (2005), Stardust (2007), and Kick - Ass (2010), has turned into a top Hollywood director - for - hire, up there with Jon Favreau.
Early
film credits include
Layer Cake (2004,) Alfie (2004,) and Factory Girl (2006.)
Like his recent Screens for Looking at Abstraction, which showed abstract
films on translucent projection cloths stretched over mirrors, McElheny's Projection Paintings are three -
layer cakes of
film, painting, and sculpture in which no single medium comes out on top.