Legend (1985)
Ridley Scott takes the director’s chair for this visually arresting, Victorian-style fairy tale, which he states he made for children like his children with classic Disney animation films in mind. Indeed, one can see...
Author: Vincent Leo
Fright Night Part 2 (1988)
Fright Night Part 2 is a follow-up to the 1985 cult hit, Fright Night (naturally), and by just about every measure, it’s a disappointment. Here we find the same protagonist, Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale), as...
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Hobbs & Shaw is a spinoff to the Fast & Furious series, putting together two of the more popular characters in the later stages of the series, mostly playing for laughs off of their competitive...
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2019)
Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film (if you count the who volumes of Kill Bill as one entity), Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (called OUATIH from here on out), is both different than anything he’s done before...
Fast Color (2018)
Set sometime in a future in which natural resources like water have become scarce. Gugu Mbatha-Raw plays Ruth, a recovering drug addict on the run due to the fact that she just might be...
Shaft (2019)
Not to get too confusing, but the 2019 version of Shaft is actually a sequel to the John Singleton’s 2000 version, Shaft, and, due to the appearance of Richard Roundtree, we find that both of...
Near Dark (1987)
1987 would see two vampire movies released, Near Dark and The Lost Boys, and while the latter would earn the money and the fan base, it is the former that won the respect of the critics and...
Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)
Spider-Man is my favorite comic book character, but that hasn’t exactly translated into me blindly loving every movie about him. In fact, most of them have disappointed in some form or fashion. I even...
The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
Jim Jarmusch has taken on horror before to success with his 2013 vampire flick, Only Lovers Left Alive. This one takes his usual lightheartedly droll approach to cinema, building on the quirky, bluesy, lackadaisical vibe...
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
The third in the original Mad Max trilogy, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome represents the most expensive film in the post-apocalyptic series, as well as (arguably) the least satisfying. It’s the first to be funded, at least in...