Vacationing American friends, David (Naughton) and Jack (Dunne), stumble off the beaten trail into a pub called the “Slaughtered Lamb” only to find its inhabitants odd and the pentagram they have drawn on their wall...
Based on the long-recurring skit on “Saturday Night Live”, Will Ferrell (Austin Powers, Men Seeking Women) and Chris Kattan (Monkeybone, Corky Romano) play club-hopping brothers, Steve and Doug Butabi, who like to bob their heads and...
Like most films produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment (Gremlins 2, Back to the Future Part III), Arachnophobia is fun cross-genre fare, aiming for every age bracket and, if nothing else, succeeding in being just entertaining enough...
Kevin Kline (Consenting Adults, Silverado) plays a dual role, one as the President of the United States, Bill Mitchell, and one as temp agency coordinator and Presidential look-alike, Dave Kovic. Dave is sought after and...
I’m going to have to put a proverbial asterisk on the rating to this review, as I chose to watch a version that is significantly different than the one that many fans of writer-director-star...
1980s / Action / Comedy / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 2, 2007 · Last modified March 2, 2019
Southside Chicago detectives Ray Hughes (Hines, Wolfen) and Danny Costanzo (Crystal, The Princess Bride) are out to put away a rising-star drug lord named Julio Gonzales (Smits, Murder in Mind), who is rumored to have killed an...
by Vincent Leo · Published February 24, 2007 · Last modified August 24, 2018
A distinctly British rural murder mystery flick if injected with a Hollywood action extravaganza mentality, this is one semi-parody of bad thrillers that takes its main joke too far. Hot Fuzz might meet the entertainment quotient...
10 Items or Less is the “express lane” of filmdom; it looks like a quick and easy proposition, but once you’re in line, it almost invariably takes just as long for getting so little....
by Vincent Leo · Published February 20, 2007 · Last modified February 18, 2019
Rob Reiner followed up his cult smash comedy, This is Spinal Tap, with a more conventional form of film: the road trip comedy. It’s a bit of an easy putt to make on first glance,...
Dave Chappelle (The Nutty Professor, 200 Cigarettes) writes and stars in this stoner comedy about a hospital janitor named Thurgood Jenkins, who lives only to get high with his three pothead buddies, Brian (Breuer, Dick), Scarface...
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.
