Greta (2018)
Although the film is called Greta (originally titled, The Widow), Chloe Grace Moretz’s character, a young waitress named Frances McCullen, is the one we follow most, newly relocated to New York City from Boston...
Author: Vincent Leo
The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
The Jewel of the Nile is a sequel to the successful romantic adventure comedy of the year prior, Robert Zemeckis’ Romancing the Stone, featuring the same main players in Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny...
Beat Street (1984)
Producer and activist Harry Belafonte’s commercialized slice-of-life drama stars Guy Davis as Kenny ‘Double K’ Kirkland, a South Bronx hip-hop DJ with big dreams, and Jon Chardiet as Ramon, a Puerto Rican graffiti artist...
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner), a best-selling writer of romance novels, has little romance in her own life. She dreams of a tall, dark and handsome man to rescue her and whisk her off her...
Dragonslayer (1981)
Set in the fictional British kingdom of Urland in the 6th Century, Peter MacNicol stars as Galen, apprentice to an aging sorcerer named Ulrich (Richardson). Ulrich has been enlisted for help in trying to stop...
Isn’t It Romantic (2019)
Todd Strauss-Schulson, who dissected slasher film tropes in 2015’s The Final Girls, gets his chance to take on another cliched film genre with the 1990s-era romantic comedy with Isn’t It Romantic, in which an unlucky-in-love single gal...
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is the third, and, for many years, it would be considered the last installment of the successful action-adventure trilogy. While it doesn’t make the dynamic impact that Raiders of the...
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
While on the whole not really a horrible film, it’s still a giant leap down from the inspired intelligence that was the driving force behind the crowd-pleasing Raiders of the Lost Ark. It seems this...
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Before I would develop an obsession with Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Vertigo, Raiders of the Lost Ark was my all-time favorite movie. Perhaps as testament to the film’s greatness, it still ranks as a close second. When someone...
The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)
Joe Cornish made a nice, albeit low-key (by today’s standards), leap from TV to movies as a writer-director with 2011’s surprise cult sleeper, Attack the Block, and as a screenwriter the same year with Spielberg’s...