Bringing us back not so long ago to the fateful 2013 Boston Marathon comes Patriots Day, a thriller-oriented re-enactment of the events that transpired, with some embellishments to help the project commercially. One of those embellishments...
Shusaku Endo’s 1966 novel provides the basis for Martin Scorsese’s (The Wolf of Wall Street, Hugo) adaptation set in the 17th Century, regarding a couple of Portuguese missionaries, Father Sebastian Rodrigues (Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge) and Father Francisco...
2010s / Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Science Fiction / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published January 3, 2017 · Last modified July 9, 2018
Thor: Ragnarok sees the emergence of Hela (Blanchett, Carol), Goddess of Death, who ends up defiantly defeating her brothers, formerly exiled Thor (Hemsworth, Ghostbusters) and Loki (Hiddleston, Kong: Skull Island), and making her way to Asgard in order to...
Set in Pittsburgh in the 1950s, Troy Maxson (Washington, The Magnificent Seven) is a 53-year-old former negro league baseball star currently working as a sanitation worker, earning the money he hands over to his wife of...
It’s the first film written and directed by Andrea Arnold (Wuthering Heights, Fish Tank) in the United States, based upon an article from a New York Times article written in 2007 exploring the phenomenon...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published December 22, 2016 · Last modified July 4, 2018
Rogue One is a Star Wars prequel that spins off of the line at the beginning of the original Star Wars (Episode IV) that mentions that rebel spies stole the secret plans for the Death Star. This one has...
2010s / Drama / Musical / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published December 20, 2016 · Last modified July 25, 2018
Emma Stone (Aloha, Irrational Man) stars as a struggling actress named Mia, who works as a barista in a coffee shop on the Warner Bros. lot, in between auditions that only serve to make her...
Jessica Chastain (The Huntsman, Crimson Peak) stars as the Machiavellian strategist Elizabeth Sloane, a shrewd and brilliantly effective lobbyist in Washington DC, whose main goal in any situation is to win at any cost, even...
Jackie is a speculative historical drama that seeks to give us a peek into the hypothetical goings on of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in the week following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas on...
by Vincent Leo · Published December 4, 2016 · Last modified September 25, 2018
Feeling like one of those cheap domestic thrillers that came and went in the early 1990s, especially the plethora of Stephen King adaptations (the Maine setting is but one of several homages), this is...
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.
