1990s / Comedy / Drama / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published February 5, 1997 · Last modified January 5, 2019
Nominated for seven academy awards (winning two for Best Actor and Actress: Jack Nicholson (Wolf, Hoffa) and Helen Hunt (Twister, Roller Coaster)), As Good As It Gets tells the story about a grumpy writer with idiosyncrasies galore, his...
1990s / Action / Fantasy / Martial Arts
by Vincent Leo · Published February 2, 1997 · Last modified March 8, 2019
A collection of eight clans collectively known as the Wu-Tang Clan (no, not the rap group) are terrorized by possible extinction by a sorceress and evil clan led by Siamese twins, who are using...
A 20-year-old prodigy (Damon), also an orphan and hoodlum, is a janitor at MIT. With a great gift for mathematics, and self-taught in many other sciences, he gets taken in by a brilliant math...
by Vincent Leo · Published January 29, 1997 · Last modified January 30, 2019
Lee is the head inspector for the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau of Hong Kong, a sort of swat team battling Chinese crime syndicates. Tung is the leader of one of Hong Kong’s most...
by Vincent Leo · Published January 24, 1997 · Last modified January 24, 2019
Muriel’s life in a small Australian town is dull and full of feelings of inadequacy, with nothing for her to do but listen to ABBA and hope one day she gets married to somebody…anybody!...
by Vincent Leo · Published January 17, 1997 · Last modified February 7, 2019
A billionaire (Hopkins, Nixon) flies his supermodel wife (Macpherson, Batman & Robin) up to Alaska for a fashion shoot. While there the billionaire’s plane crashes in the middle of the deserted wilderness, leaving only the billionaire and the...
by Vincent Leo · Published January 13, 1997 · Last modified February 7, 2019
The musician who was mistaken for a hitman in El Mariachi is back, this time as a hitman mistaken for a musician (Banderas, The Mask of Zorro). Avenging the murder of his girlfriend and the ruthless maiming...
1990s / Comedy / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published January 10, 1997 · Last modified March 4, 2019
One time unflappable box-office draw Eddie Murphy takes his first step to resurrecting his floundering film career with this tour de force in which he plays a 400-lb. chemistry professor named Sherman Klump, who...
1990s / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published January 7, 1997 · Last modified January 28, 2019
Keanu Reeves (A Walk in the Clouds, Speed) stars as Eddie Kasalivich, a machinist working on an experiment to rid the world of petroleum products and introduce hydrogen-based power into the world through an ever...
Fast Times at Ridgemont High director Amy Heckerling takes another crack at teenage life over ten years later in this snappy comedy centering around Cher (Alicia Silverstone) and her observations of high school life in...
Reviews from film writer Vince Leo, covering all eras and genres of films from classics to the latest releases.
Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.
