In his short story The Final Problem Arthur Conan Doyle, suffering from an "overdose" of his most famous character, decided to smite Sherlock Holmes; the deerstalker-clad 'tec was apparently killed in a tussle with nemesis Moriarty, the pair plunging over Reichenbach Falls to their doom. Public outcry saw Doyle resurrect Holmes for The Adventure of the Empty House, yet had he lived to see this day, he perhaps would have considered leaving him interred:......

Mr. and Mrs. Ritchie’s local, The Punchbowl in Mayfair, is to be investigated following allegations of price hiking for tourists. The showbiz pair famously liked the gaff so much they bought (into) it. Now ripping off tourists is clearly wrong: bad for the pub and bad for London. The price of a pint is so high now that inflating it further is only adding insult to injury. But the naughty, nasty mini-us inside Londonist is......

Can’t find a property in London? Guy Ritchie reckons you should blame it on foreign buyers. Yeah, that Guy Ritchie. The one with the American wife and seven properties. An HIV positive dentist has caused a scare in South London. Well that gives Londonist an excuse not to go again for another 6 years. School's out. Um, for the day at least: 708 of them have been affected by the teachers' strike Celebrities and......

Unlocked safe, stack of explosives...not a scene from a Guy Ritchie heist movie, but Golders Green Tube station. It was revealed yesterday that rail union staff discovered maintenance detonators (along with what was thought to be petrol) in an open, unattended safe at the station. The explosives are normally used to alert track workers to oncoming trains during night work. After this security embarrassment, they're being used to illustrate "a worrying slip in safety standards......

Conservatives are campaigning for more rights to deal with unruly teens in a physical manner, without fear of prosecution. Dominic Grieve, the shadow Attorney General, blames the rise of youth crime on the breakdown of the family unit and a lack of public confidence in getting support from the police or fellow members of the public: 'They take the view that if the matter gets out of control, there's a danger that if they......

Werewolves. It's a simple fact that any film, no matter how great or poor, can easily be improved with a werewolf. Revolver by Guy Ritchie for example would have been worth suffering through if in the final five minutes the entire cast had been ripped apart by a lycanthrope. At the other end of the scale a tremendous movie such as Brokeback Mountain would have been even more memorable if Jack and Ennis were......

The British film industry has been a load of old pants for as far back as we can remember. "The British are coming!" Colin Welland once declared after being given a small statuette for a film about men running faster than other men and boy did we go. Any actor with enough money for airfare relocated to LA. America meanwhile responded by creating Bruce Willis and since then it's been all down hill until......

It's been reported today that Madonna has purchased another London property so she can "move more staff in". According to the papers Madge managed to pick up the mews house at the bottom of her garden after badgering the banking consultant who owned it to sell over a period of a 'couple of years'. A couple of years eh? Wow, she is persistent isn't she? This may be the first time we've ever felt......

Yes it's street party time again because London has been announced as the official venue for the 2005 World Scrabble Championships. We can tell you're excited really. Next month this prestigious and highly prized title will be fought over at the Marriott Regent's Park Hotel, with entrants travelling from every corner of the globe to 'clash tiles'. The reigning champ' is 19 year old Panupol Sujjayakorn (there's a triple word score right there!) from......

Guy Ritchie's new film Revolver isn't out until next Thursday (the 22nd), but there's been so much talk about it (the critical savaging in Toronto, the outrage over the posters etc) that we couldn't resist taking a peek at Pete Bradshaw's review in today's Guardian even though the other papers look to be waiting until next week to sink their teeth in. And we'll be honest here: we're not even reading this review to......

No Blood, No Tears is the film that Guy Ritchie needs to sit down and watch. When the two hour caper movie is over he can go outside, take Madge by her elderly broken hips and tell her that he's never directing ever again because the Koreans are now playing his game, albeit in a very different class. Maybe Madge can follow his lead and give up warbling, thereby making the world a slightly......

Just when we got used to Jason Statham's flippable features (ie if you took his head off, turned it upside down and reattached it no one would notice) he goes and grows a bloody great big moustache - or maybe had one glued on. Oh well, it looks about as realistic as anything else in Guy Ritchie’s slightly skewed view of gangsters, London and dried up old pop singers (get well soon Madge/Esther/Whatever). The......

Despite them not having a relationship of any kind, it seems Brad Pitt is looking to move to London to be nearer weirdo goth home wrecker, Angelina Jolie. According to rumours Pitt has "instructed estate agents to start searching posh parts of west London" which gives him "a convenient half-hour drive from Angelina's Buckinghamshire mansion" (let's hope Brad doens't receive a 'booty call' during rush hour otherwise it's going to take him a hell......

Guy Ritchie, that Jamie Oliver of the film world and current Mr. Madonna, has fallen foul of the Catholic Church. It seems that last Thursday Guy and Madge (now known as Esther) were out in London celebrating the Jewish holiday of Purim. Catholics are not best pleased that the couple decided to go to a Kabbalah bash dressed as the Pope and a nun. Madge/Esther/whatever seems to enjoy prickling the Catholic Church, but as......