Todd Strauss-Schulson, who dissected slasher film tropes in 2015’s The Final Girls, gets his chance to take on another cliched film genre with the 1990s-era romantic comedy with Isn’t It Romantic, in which an unlucky-in-love single gal...
Joe Cornish made a nice, albeit low-key (by today’s standards), leap from TV to movies as a writer-director with 2011’s surprise cult sleeper, Attack the Block, and as a screenwriter the same year with Spielberg’s...
Written and directed by Adam McKay, who impressed in his last effort from 2015, The Big Short, Vice is specifically a biopic of sorts about former Vice President of the United States under George W. Bush,...
2010s / Drama / Fantasy / Superhero / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published January 21, 2019 · Last modified January 22, 2019
Glass serves as a sequel to two films from M. Night Shyamalan, 2000’s Unbreakable and 2018’s Split, the latter of which tied itself to the former with the post-end title stinger. Bruce Willis makes his return as...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy
by Vincent Leo · Published January 17, 2019 · Last modified January 18, 2019
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is the third film in the lucrative animated series for Dreamworks, and this effort promises to put a cap on the trilogy that might end here,...
Terry Gilliam’s passion project finally arrives on the big screen after decades of production limbo and a variety of aborted efforts to bring a “Don Quixote” film to completion. The closest he came before...
Winter’s Bone director Debra Granik returns after eight years hiatus (doing a couple of documentaries in between) with yet another thoughtful and richly detailed drama, also emerging as one of the best films of...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published January 5, 2019
For the first time in the six films in the franchise thus far, the reins of a Transformers flick has been given to someone whose name is not Michael Bay. In the case of the...
Spike Lee co-writes and directs this comedic drama that, like many of Spike’s films, dips back to the past to comment on the present day. In BlacKkKlansman, based on Ron Stallworth’s memoirs, published in 2014...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published December 22, 2018 · Last modified December 26, 2018
Aquaman follows in the path of Wonder Woman by going back to give an already established character in the DCEU an origin film. It’s not nearly as enjoyable as Wonder Woman though, putting more of its emphasis...
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.
