First-time feature director Nahnatchka Khan scores nicely in her first feature directorial duty, after a few notable production efforts on television, including the hit, “Fresh Off the Boat”, with Always Be My Maybe (a play...
Olivia Wilde makes her feature film directorial debut, after dabbling in the craft with a couple of music videos and short films, with Booksmart. It’s a daring and confident debut that will likely have...
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (1: the name of a type of gun, 2: literally means “to prepare for war”) spins off its plot from something that happens in the second chapter, namely...
Johnny Depp stars as an English professor for a prestigious New England college named Richard Brown who learns he has late-stage lung cancer and probably only six months to live without treatment, which he...
The idea for Wine Country was borne from an actual trip to Sonoma, California, about three years prior to filming, to celebrate former “Saturday Night Live” player Rachel Dratch’s 50th birthday, which consisted of...
One of the more tired of cliches among the post-Apatow raunchy romantic comedies is the trope of the shlubby geek always seeming to have beautiful girlfriends, most of them completely unrealistic in the manner...
The personal life of smooth-talking, gas-lighting sociopath Ted Bundy gets put into the spotlight in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile (which takes its name from a quote by the judge in describing the...
The Marvel Cinematic Universe finally puts a cap, of sorts, to the various phases it had built up since 2008’s Iron Man, allowing for a natural conclusion to a few story arcs, while also...
The inhabitants of the fantasy town of Whoville are gearing up for their favorite time of year, Christmas, and this year has them trying to be three times more into it than in the...
2010s / Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published April 16, 2019 · Last modified April 17, 2019
Rising near the top of the list of reboots that few people have been clamoring for is the 2019 incarnation of iconic half-demon Hellboy, without the formidable presence of Ron Perlman or the stylishly...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.
