1950s / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published March 18, 2015 · Last modified August 20, 2019
Introductions are hardly necessary for the venerable animated classic Cinderella, Disney’s second “Princess” movie (after Snow White), and the one that took the company that had been struggling to survive through the 1940s back to prominence and financial...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Fantasy / War
by Vincent Leo · Published December 17, 2014 · Last modified July 8, 2018
This is the one that finally broke me. J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” has the secondary title of “There and Back Again”, which certainly rang true for many readers, who enjoy going back to the...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published November 21, 2014 · Last modified February 6, 2020
The Hunger Games films veer off into a different direction with Mockingjay, Part 1, as we no longer have a highly televised arena featuring combatants battling to the death so much as a battle for the people...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Science Fiction / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published November 7, 2014 · Last modified January 5, 2019
Like most superhero projects that are put up on the big screen, Disney’s Big Hero 6 has its origins from the world of comic books, though this take is very loosely adapted from its inception in...
by Vincent Leo · Published October 8, 2014 · Last modified April 19, 2019
Simon Pegg (The Boxtrolls, The World’s End) stars as the titular Hector, a psychiatrist whose life is so predictable and routine to the point where he feels he has squeezed out any ability to be...
2010s / Adventure / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published September 20, 2014 · Last modified November 13, 2019
YA adaptations are really beginning to make me Y-A-W-N. Yet another attempt to mine from a series of sci-fi dystopia Young Adult novels in order to try to replicate the box office success of...
1960s / Adventure / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published July 13, 2014 · Last modified March 22, 2019
Charlton Heston (The Omega Man, Tombstone) stars as American astronaut George Taylor, who is returning back to Earth from a mission that has aged them six months, though many years have actually passed on the...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy
by Vincent Leo · Published June 14, 2014 · Last modified January 18, 2019
In what will likely go down as my personal pick for the most disappointing film of 2014, given my lofty expectations going in, How to Train Your Dragon 2 takes just about every character I grew...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy
by Vincent Leo · Published June 1, 2014 · Last modified January 18, 2019
Jay Baruchel (Fanboys, Knocked Up) voices the protagonist, Hiccup, a young Viking living in a tiny village called Berk. Berk’s inhabitants have little to live for except to fend off countless attacks by a wide...
1950s / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published May 29, 2014 · Last modified August 20, 2019
Very loosely based on the story by Charles Perrault, as well as the reinterpretation by the Brothers Grimm, this now-classic Disney film would initially prove a financial disappointment that would see the studio get...
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.
