by Vincent Leo · Published September 13, 2013 · Last modified February 9, 2019
Robert De Niro (Silver Linings Playbook, Limitless) stars as Fred Blake (formerly a mob boss named Giovanni Manzoni), who, along with his wife Maggie (Pfeiffer, Dark Shadows) and two teenage children, Belle (Agron, I Am Number Four) and Warren (D’Leo, Cop Out),...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 3, 2013 · Last modified January 6, 2020
Adore is the first English-language film to be directed by French director Anne Fontaine, adapted from the novella. “The Grandmothers,” by Doris Lessing, based on an anecdote told to her by a friend. It...
2010s / Action / Drama / Martial Arts
by Vincent Leo · Published September 1, 2013 · Last modified March 30, 2019
The unfortunate story behind The Grandmaster is how much of a labor of love it had been for its director/co-writer and acclaimed auteur Wong Kar-Wai (My Blueberry Nights), who spent the good part of a decade...
2010s / Comedy / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published August 23, 2013 · Last modified August 10, 2018
Simon Pegg (Star Trek Into Darkness, Mission Impossible 4) stars as Gary King, the hot punker whose peak of popularity came from his high school days, after which his life just could never get on...
David Gordon Green (Your Highness, Undertow) returns to his art-housey roots as a small-scale, poignant independent filmmaker after the last few years making some fairly dumb, zany comedies, and proves he still has the magic...
Fruitvale Station is based on the true story of the shooting of 22-year-old Oscar Grant in the early hours of New Year’s Day, 2009. The event was captured by various cell phones from bystanders to...
Jason Sudeikis (Epic, Horrible Bosses) stars as a life-long slacker named David, a two-bit pot dealer who gets into a tangle with a group of nasty thugs that sees his stash of $43,000 worth weed...
A Hijacking is a fictional drama that is based on incidents that occurred in 2007-08, which Somali pirates took over shipping freighters in the open seas for a ransom of large sums of money...
2 Guns is a meat-headed buddy action comedy that sports a few twists and turns, and a smattering of solid yuks, but fails to truly connect due to Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur’s lack of...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Superhero / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published July 28, 2013 · Last modified August 7, 2019
The Wolverine is the second attempt at a spinoff Wolverine adventure, and while this is better than the last try, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, it does fall short of the pleasures of seeing Logan (Jackman) as part of...
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.
