Author: Vincent Leo

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Highwaymen (2003)

At a small motel in the middle of nowhere, Rennie Cray (Caviezel) lost everything that was dear to him, when a hit-and-run driver runs over his wife and speeds away. Fast forward to five...

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Stage Beauty (2004)

Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from his own stage play, “Compleat Female Stage Beauty”, Stage Beauty spins a tale of Ned Kynaston (Crudup), one of the most famous, and one of the last, male actors who...

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The Ladykillers (2004)

Perhaps the lesser of all of the Coen Brothers’ films, their remake of the 1955 film, The Ladykillers,  proves to be just too disjointed to fully enjoy in its totality.  Blame miscasting of the supporting...

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Road Games (1981) | aka Roadgames

Self-declared pupil of Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Franklin, worked closely with screenwriter Everett De Roche (their second collaboration together, after the cult thriller, Patrick) to create another film project. At the time, De Roche had...

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Anaconda (1997)

Either a terrible A-list movie or a great B-movie, depending on your point of view, Anaconda is by all accounts one of the schlockiest large budget releases to ever come from a major studio.  Even...

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Blacktop (2000)

David (Munro) plays a comedian who is performing at a truck stop diner, much to the displeasure of his girlfriend, Sylvia (Davis. “Sex and the City”), who thinks he’s wasting his time at these...

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The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)

The Distinguished Gentleman is one of those rare Eddie Murphy vehicles that has aged well, produced at a time when his superstardom was on the decline, during his critically dormant period between his last racy...

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Laws of Attraction (2004)

This is pretty much a generic romantic comedy where the two would-be love interests find themselves on opposite ends of competing interests.  In many ways, Laws of Attraction suffers from following too closely on the heels...

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Open Water (2003)

Open Water is an attempt at a realistic thriller, which some have compared to The Blair Witch Project, but I have to disagree with this comparison.  Blair Witch tried to push forward a notion of realism to the...

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Steel (1997)

Unintentional humor abounds, in this very poor attempt at trying to start up another franchise superhero (based on an actual DC Comics character spun off of Superman) with Shaquille O’Neal in the lead role. ...