45 Years (2015)
I’ve often wondered, when reflecting on the James Cameron blockbuster, Titanic, how a woman could live to the age of 100, have been married and have children with another man, and still consider her few...
Author: Vincent Leo
Daddy’s Home (2015)
Will Ferrell (A Deadly Adoption, Get Hard) stars as New Orleans smooth jazz ratio station exec Brad Whitaker, who has a loving wife in Sara (Cardellini, Avengers: Age of Ultron), and two stepchildren who haven’t quite...
The Big Short (2015)
Absurdist slapstick comedy director Adam McKay (Anchorman 2, Talladega Nights) comes into his own with The Big Short, a semi-comedic adaptation of the Michael Lewis non-fiction novel about the build-up to the calamitous housing market crash...
The Revenant (2015)
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning film Birdman sees him go for a Western adventure of the most potent variety in The Revenant, a grueling tale of bloody revenge set in the wilderness of (presumably) the...
Sisters (2015)
One would think that the combined efforts of “SNL” alums and NBC sitcom stars Tina Fey (This is Where I Leave You, Muppets Most Wanted) and Amy Poehler (Inside Out, Are You Here) would be a...
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
J.J. Abrams (Star Trek, Into Darkness) strips away the lumbering effect of the Star Wars prequels and gets back to the golly-gee-whiz action-fantasy we’ve all come to know and love from the original Star Wars (aka A New Hope), and while...
In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
Based on the historical novel of the same name by Nathaniel Philbrick, published in the year 2000, In the Heart of the Sea relates the story of a New England whaling ship known as the “Essex”,...
Krampus (2015)
Michael Dougherty, director of the cult horror flick of 2007, Trick ‘r Treat, returns to the genre to bring scares to yet another holiday in Krampus, which threatens to upend the generally benign season of gift-giving...
Creed (2015)
I went out on a bit of a limb in proclaimingFruitvale Station the best film of 2013. It was the debut film of previously unknown director Ryan Coogler, and yet, no other film moved me...
The Good Dinosaur (2015)
Offering up a sort of alternate prehistory on what might have happened had the theoretical asteroid that hit Earth 65 million years ago that wiped out all of the dinosaurs not occurred, dinosaurs are...