Author: Vincent Leo

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2010s / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance

Midnight in Paris (2011)

Owen Wilson stars as a Hollywood hack screenwriter named Gil, traveling to his favorite city, Paris, with his fiancée Inez (McAdams) and her parents, John (Fuller) and Helen (Kennedy).  Paris brings out the romanticized notions of...

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2010s / Action / Fantasy / Superhero

Thor (2011)

Hard to call it a superhero film when it is about a Norse god, but given its comic book pedigree, that it’s a Stan Lee and Jack Kirby creation, and Thor’s future inclusion in...

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2010s / Adventure / Drama

127 Hours (2010)

Acclaimed filmmaker Danny Boyle directs and co-writes the adaptation of the inspirational memoirs of Aron Ralston’s true-life tale of survival.  Ralston (Franco), an avid adventurist, became trapped during a fall in a crevice in...

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2010s / Action / Mystery / Science Fiction / Thriller

Source Code (2011)

Oh, how to relate the plot? Jake Gyllenhaal (Prince of Persia, Jarhead) stars as Air Force Captain Colter Stevens, a U.S. pilot in the War in Afghanistan who finds himself inhabiting the body of a...

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2000s / Drama / Mystery

Mystic River (2003)

Clint Eastwood (Blood Work, Space Cowboys) directs the Brian Helgeland (A Knight’s Tale, Payback) adaptation of the popular Dennis Lehane novel of the same name revolving around the build-up of mystery surrounding the assault and apparent...

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2010s / Action / Fantasy

Sucker Punch (2011)

Many questions emerge shortly after walking out of a viewing of Sucker Punch.  Perhaps the first and foremost one is, “What the *bleep* was that all about?”  There may be a few more thoughts that...

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1980s / Horror / Thriller

Cujo (1983)

Cujo is a simple story, adapted from the 1981 Stephen King novel of the same name, about a St. Bernard who becomes a bloodthirsty monster once he goes rabid following a bite from a bat. ...

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2010s / Science Fiction / Thriller

The Adjustment Bureau (2011)

The Adjustment Bureau is the latest Hollywood adaptation of a Philip K. Dick work, this time of one of his short stories, “Adjustment Team” (one presumes the title was changed to ‘Bureau’ to make the...

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2010s / Action / Martial Arts / Science Fiction

Alien vs. Ninja (2010)

For anyone who ever watched the original Alien and wondered what might happen if the deadly Alien encountered a group of Earth’s elite warriors rather than a hapless commercial vessel full of average joes, we finally...

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1980s / Comedy / Romance / Science Fiction

The Man with Two Brains (1983)

One of Steve Martin’s (Sgt. Pepper, The Jerk) funniest films, and one which he would co-write.  His third collaboration with writer-director Carl Reiner (The One and Only, Fatal Instinct), The Man with Two Brains casts Martin as renowned...