Brainstorm (1983)
Brainstorm serves as a new-age science fiction film, treating the future as a mind-blowing and life-altering experience for those who participate, though the film stays grounded within the realm of science for most of the...
Brainstorm serves as a new-age science fiction film, treating the future as a mind-blowing and life-altering experience for those who participate, though the film stays grounded within the realm of science for most of the...
Dragged Across Concrete is writer-director S. Craig Zahler’s further exploration of the seamy underbelly of American society, particularly through the prism of how that experience causes ripple effects that throw even innocent people into...
2010s / Comedy / Horror / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 21, 2019 · Last modified March 22, 2019
As a young girl living in the coastal California town of Santa Cruz in 1986, Adelaide walked away from her parents while at the beach boardwalk amusement park, into a seemingly empty fun house,...
JoBeth Williams stars as suburban Ohio housewife and mother Cathy Palmer, who escapes her joyless marriage in her spare time by reading her favorite romantic thriller novels, all starring a Modesty Blaise-like globe-hopping female...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Thriller / War
by Vincent Leo · Published March 17, 2019 · Last modified March 18, 2019
After a nearly five-year hiatus from writing and directing films (with the exception of his untimely departure from Deepwater Horizon) , J.C. Chandor re-emerges with Triple Frontier (not the best title, taking its name from, according...
1980s / Comedy / Romance / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 14, 2019 · Last modified March 15, 2019
Rosanna Arquette stars as Roberta Glass, a dreamy, but largely lonely and dissatisfied New Jersey housewife who contents herself to reading about the mysterious lives of others through perusing the personals in the local...
It’s a curious thing to observe James Cameron, who co-wrote the screenplay to Alita: Battle Angel, hand over the keys to such an expensive and expansive universe of characters, concepts, and ingenuity to a...
2010s / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 3, 2019 · Last modified March 4, 2019
Although the film is called Greta (originally titled, The Widow), Chloe Grace Moretz’s character, a young waitress named Frances McCullen, is the one we follow most, newly relocated to New York City from Boston...
1980s / Action / Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published February 23, 2019
Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner), a best-selling writer of romance novels, has little romance in her own life. She dreams of a tall, dark and handsome man to rescue her and whisk her off her...
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is the third, and, for many years, it would be considered the last installment of the successful action-adventure trilogy. While it doesn’t make the dynamic impact that Raiders of the...
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.