Double Whammy (2001)
It’s hard to believe that a movie as poor as Double Whammy would ever be made by such a credible filmmaker like Tom DiCillo, yet here it is, a sloppy piece of head-scratching ineptitude for...
Author: Vincent Leo
Flight of the Navigator (1986)
In 1978, 12-year-old David (Cramer) is walking in the woods one day and falls in a ravine. When he awakes, he finds himself in 1986, still the same age, while the family he once...
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
During the Korean War of the 1950s, a platoon of American soldiers is snared and taken away for three days, where they are apparently brainwashed with ideas and instructions they have but the vaguest...
Catwoman (2004)
Change the name, change the origin, change the town, change the personality, and what do you have? Not DC Comics’ Catwoman, I can attest. The only similarities between Catwoman‘s Patience Phillips and Selina Kyle of...
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Based on the book by Jeffrey Eugenides, the setting is the 1970s, where a suburban family — mom, dad, and five sisters — come to an untimely demise. The details aren’t spelled out. although...
Taking Lives (2004)
Yes, it’s another farfetched serial killer flick, clutching desperately at a new twist to the genre, but the contortions the plot goes through to try to make this premise fly is downright embarrassing. It’s...
Annie Hall (1977)
A romantic comedy like no other before it, Annie Hall proves to be a tour-de-force and landmark film for Woody Allen as a writer, director, and star. It’s the film that showed Allen, and the world,...
Aliens (1986)
Debates may rage on as to whether Aliens is actually a better film than Alien, and I’m of two minds myself on it myself, but regardless of the conclusion, one thing is clear — they are...
Anita and Me (2002)
Anita and Me was written for the screen by Meera Syal herself from her bestselling novel of the same name. Syal is a British-born woman of Indian descent, and one can tell from her keen...
Bicentennial Man (1999)
The great science fiction writer, Isaac Asimov, is among my favorite authors, and I have been surprised by the dearth of movie adaptations of his work, especially from someone as prolific, popular and influential. Bicentennial...