Author: Vincent Leo

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Bring It On (2000)

Bring It On is the sort of mindless fluff I would expect on the Disney channel to pass for “quality entertainment”, but I doubt they would let the multitudinous cheesecake shots and phallic symbolism...

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The Producers (1968)

What makes The Producers such one of the best comedies ever isn’t just the fact that it’s funny.  It’s absolutely inspired.  When you hear the plot, you can pretty much guess from the start things aren’t...

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State and Main (2000)

Highly acclaimed playwright and screenwriter David Mamet takes the helm as director for the seventh time, and while he’s certainly done better as a writer, this is the film where he finally hits his...

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Toy Story (1995)

The fact that Toy Story is the first full-length feature film done entirely in computer graphics would have made this interesting enough. The fact that it is also immensely enjoyable makes this one of the greatest...

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Red Planet (2000)

Red Planet is the fourth attempt in the last year to try to make the same storyline work and come up short. Supernova, Pitch Black and Mission to Mars all dealt with an Earth-mission to another planet, only to have...

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Little Nicky (2000)

I guess you can’t expect much when the writer of such crap films as Ready to Rumble, and the Mighty Ducks films is the ringleader writer-director of a film like Little Nicky (co-written by Adam Sandler and longtime Sandler...

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The 6th Day (2000)

With The 6th Day, Arnie may finally prove once and for all that he’s no longer worthy of the “World’s Greatest Action Star” title he’s held for over a decade. The elements were here for...

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Life (1999)

The story of two innocent men who served 65 years for a murder they had nothing to do with, framed by a local sheriff. The tale is told in flashbacks, about their life in...

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Wild Wild West (1999)

Wild Wild West casts Will Smith as Black gunslinger Jim West and Kevin Kline as genius inventor US Marshal Artemus Gordon, who try to stop a nefarious plot by bitter Confederate soldier named Arliss...

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Highlander (1986)

Of all the films I’ve ever seen, Highlander might rank as my favorite guilty pleasure.  Granted, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, contains some cheesy acting, bad lighting, hit-and-miss directing, and an awful screenplay,...