Saving Private Ryan (1998)
The story is simple. The images will last forever. Due to the devastating news that three out of four brothers have died during WWII, the US military decide to send a troop into hostile...
The story is simple. The images will last forever. Due to the devastating news that three out of four brothers have died during WWII, the US military decide to send a troop into hostile...
1930s / Adventure / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published November 23, 1998 · Last modified December 3, 2019
Robert Donat plays Richard Hannay, a Canadian visiting London who travels to a local show. Gunshots erupt, and during the mad dash for the exits, he bumps into a woman (Mannheim), asking to go...
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...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 22, 1998 · Last modified February 27, 2019
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is am attempt at a very literal film translation of the infamous 1971 novel by Hunter S. Thompson relating his drug-induced hallucinatory trip through Las Vegas when trying to cover...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 20, 1998 · Last modified February 20, 2019
…and I still don’t care what you did last summer. Julie (Hewitt), one of the survivors from the first film, tries to get herself together but is still having nightmares about her traumatic experience with...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 19, 1998 · Last modified February 18, 2019
This is Spinal Tap is a documentary — er, a rockumentary — er, a mockumentary — well… It’s a parody of a documentary based on a fictitious British heavy metal band called Spinal Tap. Rob...
A couple of teens in upstate New York go horseback riding in the snow one day, when disaster strikes in the form of a semi and kills one of the girls and severely wounds...
Bill Murray plays an annoying American video store clerk who travels to England to visit his brother (Gallagher) on his birthday. The brother does not want him botching an important business meeting with his presence,...
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...
1990s / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published November 7, 1998 · Last modified February 4, 2019
Note to Hollywood: would you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stop bombarding us with the same old “Earth is about to be destroyed so please watch two hours of people hugging and crying because they’re all...
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.