Repressed teenager Janey Glenn (Parker) is newly moved to Chicago with her newly retired military dad, mom, and younger brother, having been enrolled in an all-girls Catholic school, but making a fast friend with...
Who’s Harry Crumb? is a ridiculous slapstick comedy in the vein of the later Pink Panther films, where most of the laughs come from how sophomoric the makers of the film are willing to go to...
Executive produced by Ben Wheatley, In Fabric is a comedic horror film from Peter Strickland, who made critical splashes with prior small-scale efforts like the crafty, giallo-homage of Berberian Sound Studio and the fetishistic...
1980s / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published November 13, 2019 · Last modified February 25, 2020
The biggest novelty of Curse of the Pink Panther (which was the original title of 1978’s Revenge of the Pink Panther before they changed it) is that it attempts to introduce us to a replacement...
The sixth entry in the original A Nightmare on Elm Street series promises in the title that this would be the final one, at least of those story threads that have stemmed throughout the first...
The original sequel to 1985’s hit comedy, Fletch, was originally meant to be based on the sixth of Gregory McDonald’s series of “Fletch” novels, “Fletch and the Man Who”, with a plot that would involve...
1980s / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published November 11, 2019 · Last modified February 25, 2020
Peter Sellers, who played the bumbling yet highly effective Inspector Clouseau, died on July 24, 1980, and to whom Trail of the Pink Panther, which was released 2.5 years after his death, would be dedicated....
The premise of The Lighthouse is relatively simple: two men isolated indefinitely at a rocky island lighthouse some distance from the coast of New England go mad over time. If you really want to simplify...
James Cameron returns back to the franchise he created by producing and co-writing the original story upon which Terminator: Dark Fate is based. Although technically the sixth feature film in the franchise, this entry...
Will Smith stars as Henry Brogan, a top-notch sniper and skilled combat fighter working for a black ops government agency named Gemini, performing one last kill before retiring from the assassin business at the...
Reviews from film writer Vince Leo, covering all eras and genres of films from classics to the latest releases.
Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.
