After the smashing success of Jurassic World, producer Steven Spielberg congratulated director Colin Trevorrow with a gift of a menorah with a T-Rex base, dubbed the Menorahsaurus Rex. Celebrations didn’t last long. The sequel...
Motel Hell is a dark comedy, bordering on spoofing the horror genre in a style that some lovingly compare to EC Comics. The screenwriting and producing team of brothers, Stephen-Charles and Robert, collaborated on...
Stephen King’s idea for “The Shining” came in 1974, after moving with his wife and toddler son to Boulder, Colorado to explore a new setting to write about. Lacking inspiration, the Kings stayed as...
A drama with some documentary-worthy concert performances, Wild Style, which is a slang term for the jittery lettering of graffiti, is a seminal hip-hop film, covering some of the origins of the art form in the...
2010s / Drama / Superhero / Thriller / Uncategorized
by Vincent Leo · Published October 12, 2019 · Last modified October 15, 2019
Joker is a gritty, grimy, and nihilistic R-rated origin story on the classic “Batman” villain, directed by Todd Phillips from a script he co-wrote with Scott Silver. Set in a crime-ridden Gotham City sometime...
The futuristic video game brawler known as “Double Dragon” was, for a period of time, the number-one coin-operated game in America. It was created by the Japanese game company Technos in 1987 and became...
1980s / Mystery / Thriller / Uncategorized
by Vincent Leo · Published July 28, 2007 · Last modified February 16, 2023
In the early 1980s, filmmaker Curtis Hanson had just come off of directing Losin’ It, a teen comedy about a group of young American men who travel to Tijuana, Mexico to lose their virginity....
It took me some time to finally be able to sit all the way through Cold Mountain, despite several attempts. Some of this had to do with the fact that at 155 minutes, it’s quite...
As they were finishing up The Matrix in 1999, the Wachowskis already had an idea for a proposed trilogy. They just weren’t sure if they wanted to do the next two films as sequels,...
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.
