After the smashing success of Jurassic World, producer Steven Spielberg congratulated director Colin Trevorrow with a gift of a menorah with a T-Rex base, dubbed the Menorahsaurus Rex. Celebrations didn’t last long. The sequel...
Motel Hell is a dark comedy, bordering on spoofing the horror genre in a style that some lovingly compare to EC Comics. The screenwriting and producing team of brothers, Stephen-Charles and Robert, collaborated on...
Stephen King’s idea for “The Shining” came in 1974, after moving with his wife and toddler son to Boulder, Colorado to explore a new setting to write about. Lacking inspiration, the Kings stayed as...
Pulse marks Paul Golding’s debut feature directorial effort, as well as his last. His only other directorial credit was when he co-directed a three-minute short film in 1966 called Herbie with George Lucas in...
Although the behind-the-scenes details are sketchy, we know that 2017’s Justice League, though credited to Zack Snyder as the director, was more of the direction that the studio wanted the franchise to go than...
Coming 2 America is the much-belated sequel to Eddie Murphy’s most popular of starring vehicles, 1988’s Coming to America. Murphy returns to his role as Akeem Joffer, an obscenely wealthy prince of the fictional...
Back in 2009, after the success of hybrid animated/live-action features that bring back old cartoon characters like 2007’s Alvin & The Chipmunks and the Scooby-Doo flicks from 2002 and 2004, Warner Bros. put into development...
2020s / Comedy / Drama / Romance / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published February 17, 2021 · Last modified February 19, 2021
Emerald Fennell was the director, executive producer, and showrunner for season 2 of the darkly comedic TV show “Killing Eve” and works as an actor, most recently as Camilla Parker Bowles in “The Crown.” ...
The Little Things finds John Lee Hancock directing a mystery-thriller screenplay he’s kicked around for a few decades. The origin of the story began in 1992 after Steven Spielberg had read the script for...
2020s / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Musical
by Vincent Leo · Published January 18, 2021
Jamie Foxx voices Joe Gardner, a middle-aged music teacher at a New York public middle school. Joe is frustrated by his lack of success toward becoming a professional jazz club musician and trying to...
Reviews from film writer Vince Leo, covering all eras and genres of films from classics to the latest releases.
Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.
