Smokin' Aces/Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Double bill of gangster films. 'Smokin' Aces' (2007) is a lighthearted mob drama that follows a Vegas funnyman who turns snitch against some heavyweight mobsters and needs protecting.

Buddy 'Sarah Aces' Israel (Jeremy Piven) is a comedic Vegas magician who has informed on an important mobster.

The call goes in from the mobster that a million bucks goes to anyone who cuts Buddy's heart out and the FBI intercept the call.

Aces is put under the protection of agents Carruthers and Messner (Ray Liotta and Ryan Reynolds) who squirrel the magician away in his own Tahoe retreat.

Pretty soon there ain't a hotel room to be had in Tahoe as a parade of hit men, bounty hunters and, generally, a rogues' gallery of miscreants descend, locked in the chase to be the one to off the corrupt conjurer.

In 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' (1998), after losing all their money to London crime boss Hatchet Harry (P.H.

Moriarty) in a card game, twentysomething friends Eddy (Nick Moran), Tom (Jason Flemyng), Soap (Dexter Fletcher) and Bacon (Jason Statham) decide to steal from their drug-dealing neighbour, Dog.

Using guns stolen from burglars in the employ of Harry, the quartet carry out their heist, leaving their money at Eddy's.

However, as they set about disposing of the evidence, they are unaware that there is more to their firearms than they thought...