Spies Like Us (1985)
The Dr. Strangelove-esque plot of Spies Like Us involves the two most inept, low-level U.S. intelligence agents they could find to go on a mission as expendable decoys for the real agents. Emmett Fitz-Hume...
Author: Vincent Leo
Joker (2019)
Joker is a gritty, grimy, and nihilistic R-rated origin story on the classic “Batman” villain, directed by Todd Phillips from a script he co-wrote with Scott Silver. Set in a crime-ridden Gotham City sometime...
First Blood (1982)
First Blood is quintessential Reagan-era violent individualism, and one of the benchmark flicks that set the standard for most Hollywood action films for the next several years. Resonant in the American psyche, this first...
The Delta Force (1986)
Originally, The Delta Force, which is the name of the special forces commando unit tasked with dealing with combating international terrorists and hostage situations, was going to be a film featuring both Chuck Norris and Charles...
Hustlers (2019)
Hustlers is a somewhat different take on the traditional crime film, ostensibly exploitative and glossy on the surface, but with some surprising themes to ponder underneath. This one is inspired by the real-life story,...
Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019)
Jillian Bell stars as Brittany Forgler, a broke and down-on-her-luck woman in her late 20s who moved from Philadelphia to New York to pursue a career that didn’t quite pan out. Her quest for...
The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)
Zack Gottsagen is a young man with Down syndrome (also named Zak, no ‘c’) who is persistently trying to escape from his care facility in order to go meet his idol, a professional wrestler...
Good Boys (2019)
This is the third comedy I’ve seen in which someone mistakenly thinks anal beads for a necklace. The fact that I can’t remember the other two films should be an indicator of how memorable...
Lifeforce (1985)
Tobe Hooper directs this ambitious and downright strange effort for The Cannon Group called Lifeforce, based off of a deliberately Lovecraftian 1976 novel from Colin Wilson called, “The Space Vampires”, which has a reputation...
The Last Unicorn (1982)
One magical unicorn survives the fate imposed by the wicked King Haggard (Christopher Lee) in his attempt to exterminate the realm. Thinking they couldn’t possibly all be dead (in this story, they are immortal),...