Woman in Gold (2015)
“Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” is a painting by renown Viennese painter Gustav Klimt from 1907, reportedly taking over three years to complete. Klimt was hired for the portrait by Adele’s wealthy husband, Ferdinand,...
Author: Vincent Leo
True Lies (1994)
Harry Tasker (Schwarzenegger, Last Action Hero) is a world class spy and also loving father and husband. He tells his family he’s really a boring computer salesman, all the while protecting his country in breathtakingly amazing...
Furious 7 (2015)
The gang is back for, the poster says, “one last ride.” If this is the last film for the main core players of the franchise (don’t bet on it; promotional interviews already are talking...
It Follows (2014)
Writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s (The Myth of the American Sleepover) sophomore feature effort is an homage of sorts to horror films of the late 1970s and early 1980s, especially Halloween, The Shining and its ilk. No,...
Cinderella (1950)
Introductions are hardly necessary for the venerable animated classic Cinderella, Disney’s second “Princess” movie (after Snow White), and the one that took the company that had been struggling to survive through the 1940s back to prominence and financial...
’71 (2014)
At its heart, ’71 is a standard caught-behind-enemy-lines story of someone trying desperately to make it back home alive, yet encountering trouble at seemingly every turn. The sparsely worded script by Gregory Burke ups the...
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)
Though one would have thought this an unlikely property for a franchise, the first Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was a surprise hit, taking in nearly $140 million worldwide on a $10 million budget. I suppose that...
Pet Sematary (1989)
Stephen King adapts his own best-selling novel about a family of four who move from Chicago to a country house in Maine, right next to a bustling street with speeding fuel trucks in the...
Insurgent (2015)
The Divergent series is like that stick of chewing gum you popped into your mouth before a big meeting that you keep chewing on long, long, long after the flavor has gone. You want to spit...
Flatliners (1990)
Flatliners is a difficult film to pigeonhole. It’s sci-fi, but not really, and it’s horror, but not really that either. It’s more like a supernatural drama/thriller that dabbles with the question of the afterlife,...