Rear Window (1998)
A man involved in a near fatal car accident becomes a wheelchair-ridden paraplegic, and through his strong desire for voyeurism and some cheap entertainment watches his neighbors though his second story Soho apartment. In...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 23, 1998 · Last modified January 22, 2019
A man involved in a near fatal car accident becomes a wheelchair-ridden paraplegic, and through his strong desire for voyeurism and some cheap entertainment watches his neighbors though his second story Soho apartment. In...
1990s / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published November 12, 1998 · Last modified January 22, 2019
A psychiatrist (Gere, Pretty Woman) begins a romance with the sister (Basinger, Batman) of one of his patients (Thurman, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen), although later finding out she’s married to a powerful gangster-type (Roberts, Runaway Train). His...
On the campus of an ivy league New England college, someone dressed like Nanook of the North is recreating urban legends and killing everyone on campus in the process. If you’re looking for a...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 20, 1998 · Last modified January 22, 2019
A high school guidance counselor (Dillon, In & Out) is accused of rape by a student (Richards, The World is Not Enough) who is the daughter of a wealthy and powerful widow (Russell, Spider-Man 3). After it is found...
1940s / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published June 23, 1998 · Last modified January 16, 2019
A shy and timid girl (Fontaine) is whisked away by a rich man named Maxim de Winter (Olivier), who is still recovering from the death of his much beloved wife, Rebecca. The two get...
Hitchcock’s DIAL M FOR MURDER revisited, this time with Douglas out to off his philandering wife, and hiring her lover to do the deed. Things get complicated when the lover isn’t up to the...
1960s / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published May 29, 1998 · Last modified February 3, 2019
A soon-to-be divorced woman (Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s) needn’t worry any longer about her failing marriage when it is discovered her husband died after a tumble off of a moving train. She soon discovers her husband...
Writer John Kelso (Cusack, Bullets Over Broadway) travels to Savannah to write for a magazine on the home of Jim Williams (Spacey, LA Confidential) , but the story turns out to be not so much his house,...
Five college students kidnap a former mob boss in order to exchange him for the sister of one of the rich students who was also kidnapped. They vow to perform an eye for an...
The plot: Heart surgeon Richard Walker and his loving wife Sondra travel to Paris where he is scheduled to speak at a medical convention. In their hotel room, they discover that his wife picked...
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.