Author: Vincent Leo

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2000s / Horror / Science Fiction

How to Make a Monster (2001)

One of several 2001 straight-to-cable “Creature Features” remade (in name only) from a nearly equally corny American International Pictures flick from the 1950s, How to Make a Monster starts its film with children game testing the...

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2000s / Comedy

Fanboys (2009)

Set in 1998, the storyline follows a group of twenty-something longtime Ohio friends, struggling with the feeling like they need to move on with life and accomplishment, but still unwilling to give up their...

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2010s / Drama

The King’s Speech (2010)

An atypical underdog story, The King’s Speech is a well executed piece through and through, featuring very fine performances, good character touches and wit in the script (David Seidler, Tucker), Tom Hooper’s (The Damned United,“John Adams”) consummate direction,...

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1960s / Mystery / Thriller

The Quiller Memorandum (1966)

Based on the first of the Elleston Trevor (written as Adam Hall) series of Quiller spy novels, The Quiller Memorandum (the book was called “The Berlin Memorandum” outside of the United States) mixes the heroics, romance...

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1980s / Comedy

Brewster’s Millions (1985)

Richard Pryor (Superman III, Live on Sunset Strip) stars as longtime minor league pitcher Montgomery Brewster still waiting for his next big call-up to the Bigs that seems to be so elusive. He and his...

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1970s / Drama / Horror

The Exorcist (1973)

William Peter Blatty (A Shot in the Dark, The Ninth Configuration) provides the Oscar-winning screenplay, based on his best-selling 1971 horror novel, which in turn is purportedly partially based on a true-life exorcism performed in...

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2000s / Science Fiction / Thriller

Surrogates (2009)

Surrogates is based on Robert Venditti’s comic book miniseries from 2005, which depicts a futuristic society in which the military has conducted wars through the use of “surrogates”, or humanoid robots that are fully controlled...

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2000s / Mystery / Thriller

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

A bit lengthy run time for a thriller, but absorbing throughout nonetheless, this murder mystery, somewhat loosely based on the dense best-selling novel by the late Stieg Larsson (which in its native Swedish literally...

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2000s / Animation / Science Fiction

9 (2009)

9 is the full-length version of director Shane Acker’s 11-minute mostly dialogue-less computer-animated short film from 1995 that went on to garner an Academy Award nomination.  Producer Tim Burton became a fan of Acker’s vision...