Bad Teacher (2011)
This generically titled film is about, you guessed it, a bad teacher. The only title more fitting would have been Bad Movie, though I suppose that might not be necessary, as any film where the...
This generically titled film is about, you guessed it, a bad teacher. The only title more fitting would have been Bad Movie, though I suppose that might not be necessary, as any film where the...
2010s / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published May 21, 2011 · Last modified December 10, 2019
Owen Wilson stars as a Hollywood hack screenwriter named Gil, traveling to his favorite city, Paris, with his fiancée Inez (McAdams) and her parents, John (Fuller) and Helen (Kennedy). Paris brings out the romanticized notions of...
1980s / Comedy / Romance / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published February 23, 2011 · Last modified January 14, 2019
One of Steve Martin’s (Sgt. Pepper, The Jerk) funniest films, and one which he would co-write. His third collaboration with writer-director Carl Reiner (The One and Only, Fatal Instinct), The Man with Two Brains casts Martin as renowned...
Set in 1998, the storyline follows a group of twenty-something longtime Ohio friends, struggling with the feeling like they need to move on with life and accomplishment, but still unwilling to give up their...
Richard Pryor (Superman III, Live on Sunset Strip) stars as longtime minor league pitcher Montgomery Brewster still waiting for his next big call-up to the Bigs that seems to be so elusive. He and his...
The big screen adaptation of the cult-y Bryan Lee O’Malley comic book is, like its print counterpart, a mash-up of teen pop culture obsessions infused into a young romance storyline. Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World works...
The Brady Bunch Movie is just one of many big screen adaptations of beloved television shows of days gone by that recaptures the spirit of the original show, all the while making fun of it...
1980s / Comedy / Fantasy / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published April 27, 2010 · Last modified November 17, 2020
In April of 1984, on the strength of his yet-to-be-released debut feature as director, Sixteen Candles, and his scripts for The Breakfast Club and Weird Science, the prolific John Hughes entered into a $30...
22-year-old Dante Hicks (O’Halloran, Mallrats) bemoans his lot of having to work on his scheduled day off in his job at the Quick Stop market in New Jersey, but he’s not one to cause waves, and...
by Vincent Leo · Published February 28, 2010 · Last modified August 26, 2019
It’s not easy to imagine Harold Ramis, the writer-director of Caddyshack and Groundhog Day, turning in a film this bad. I suppose one could see the diminishing returns in his last two films, The Ice Harvest and Analyze That, but Year...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.