Author: Vincent Leo

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2010s / Comedy / Fantasy

Your Highness (2011)

Danny McBride (Up in the Air, The Heartbreak Kid) and James Franco (127 Hours, Spider-Man 3) star in this comedic fantasy sword-and-sorcery adventure that resembles a bad Mel Brooks farce (an opening scene with ‘midgets’ would...

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2010s / Science Fiction / Western

Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

An extremely loose, glossy adaptation of the relatively obscure 2006 independent studio graphic novel of the same name by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Cowboys & Aliens isn’t the first mash-up of Westerns and science fiction (Westworld, Wild Wild...

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Double Dragon (1994)

The futuristic video game brawler known as “Double Dragon” was, for a period of time, the number-one coin-operated game in America. It was created by the Japanese game company Technos in 1987 and became...

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2010s / Comedy

Cedar Rapids (2011)

Ed Helms plays Tim Lippe, an insurance salesperson who lived a highly sheltered life in a small town in Wisconsin. The insurance company’s top salesman (Lennon) suffers a fatal accident that showcases him as a...

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1960s / Drama / War

Battle of Britain (1969)

Guy Hamilton, perhaps best known for directing James Bond features, including Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever, gets the chair filming this ultra-patriotic, star-studded WWII movie depicting a key battle in defense of the isle...

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2010s / Comedy

Bad Teacher (2011)

This generically titled film is about, you guessed it, a bad teacher.  The only title more fitting would have been Bad Movie, though I suppose that might not be necessary, as any film where the...

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1970s / Action / Drama

The Mack (1973)

Though often lumped in with the plethora of Blaxploitation flicks to come out in the 1970s, The Mack is somewhat separated from the subgenre due to its more serious plotline and profound social commentary.  It is...

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1980s / Action / Science Fiction / Sports

The Running Man (1987)

Between 1977 and 1985, Stephen King published five novels as “Richard Bachman”. Four were reworked from manuscripts he’d written in high school and college during the 1960s and found languishing in a trunk that...