Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Based on the novel by Walter Mosley. In the year 1948, Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins (Washington) is having trouble paying his mortgage. This leads to his not being able to turn down an offer to play...
by Vincent Leo · Published February 8, 1998 · Last modified August 26, 2019
Based on the novel by Walter Mosley. In the year 1948, Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins (Washington) is having trouble paying his mortgage. This leads to his not being able to turn down an offer to play...
by Vincent Leo · Published December 30, 1997 · Last modified November 30, 2022
The idea for Body Double came when Brian De Palma replaced Angie Dickinson with a body double for a shower scene in Dressed to Kill. He examined many models who’d appeared naked in Playboy, Penthouse,...
1990s / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published December 26, 1997 · Last modified February 13, 2019
Clarice Starling (Foster, Foxes) is an FBI agent-in-training who is sent for the near impossible task of gaining the aid of a dangerous psychopath, Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins, The Bounty), in catching a serial killer nicknamed Buffalo Bill...
by Vincent Leo · Published December 12, 1997 · Last modified January 18, 2019
Leslie Banks (Jamaica Inn, Henry V) and Edna Best (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Intermezzo) play a happily married couple who go on vacation in Switzerland when a colleague of theirs is assassinated. They...
1970s / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published November 29, 1997 · Last modified December 28, 2018
All the President’s Men is the well-known dramatic account about the cracking of the Watergate scandal and the reporters who scooped it, Woodward (Redford, Three Days of the Condor) and Bernstein (Hoffman, Agatha) of the Washington Post. What started...
1940s / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published November 23, 1997 · Last modified July 10, 2018
The last word uttered by media magnate and multimillionaire tycoon, Charles Foster Kane (Welles, Touch of Evil), was “rosebud”. During preparations for a newsreel story on Kane’s life, the producers determine that they need to...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 15, 1997 · Last modified February 11, 2019
A hotshot inventor (Scott, Big Night) has found a way to make the corporation he works for millions, but he fears that he will not be fully compensated for all of the good things he brings...
by Vincent Leo · Published April 14, 1997 · Last modified December 27, 2018
Amateur tennis star Guy Haines (Granger, Rope) unwittingly enters into a bargain with lunatic Bruno Antony (Walker, Vengeance Valley) after a chance meeting on a train. The deal is that in order to avoid the motive aspect of...
1980s / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 21, 1997 · Last modified November 1, 2019
Fletch is based on a 1974 novel from Harvard-educated author Gregory McDonald, who had just left his job working as a journalist for”The Boston Globe” to write his book based somewhat on his and...
by Vincent Leo · Published January 5, 1997 · Last modified January 22, 2019
Tony Wendice is a former tennis star whose wealthy wife is having an affair with an old friend of theirs. He plans on murdering her and getting her insurance money, and to facilitate shifting...
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.