Phantoms (1998)
Two sisters travel to a small town in Colorado only to find that the inhabitants have all died mysterious and grisly deaths, save for the sheriff Affleck and a pair of deputies who are trying...
1990s / Horror / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published January 27, 1998 · Last modified February 20, 2019
Two sisters travel to a small town in Colorado only to find that the inhabitants have all died mysterious and grisly deaths, save for the sheriff Affleck and a pair of deputies who are trying...
by Vincent Leo · Published January 25, 1998 · Last modified January 15, 2020
The US President (Ford) delivers a speech to citizens of Russia dictating the “zero-tolerance” policy the United States will be taking against terrorists. On board Air Force One on the flight home, some terrorists take...
Three years before the trio of comedy writers of Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker (Top Secret!, Ruthless People) would score their mega-hit Airplane!, they made this sporadically funny, screwball vignette comedy flick which...
1990s / Action / Comedy / Martial Arts
by Vincent Leo · Published January 19, 1998 · Last modified February 3, 2019
City Hunter is an action film based on the popular Japanese comic book of the same name. The plotline centers around a womanizing private investigator named Ryu Saeba (Chan, Police Story 2), who is hired to...
1990s / Action / Comedy / Martial Arts
by Vincent Leo · Published January 17, 1998 · Last modified February 16, 2019
A TV chef (Chan, Thunderbolt) gets embroiled in a plot by dangerous underworld types to get a videotape of a secret drug deal and murder when he accidentally bumps into a reporter who threatens to blow...
1990s / Action / Adventure / Horror / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published January 15, 1998 · Last modified March 20, 2022
Unlike author Michael Crichton’s “Jurassic Park” novel, the 1993 Universal Pictures film adaptation was built with sequels in mind. Whereas the novel wiped out the dinosaurs in the end, Spielberg kept them alive, as...
1960s / Action / Adventure / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published January 12, 1998 · Last modified February 25, 2020
Auric Goldfinger (Frobe) has built himself a small fortune by stockpiling international gold bullion by buying and reselling in world markets for higher prices. Agent 007 (Connery) is sent to investigate and discovers Goldfinger is planning...
1990s / Action / Comedy / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published January 10, 1998 · Last modified February 20, 2019
Bad Boys is a movie at odds with itself. The part of it that tries to be a comedy is a smashing success, with Martin Lawrence at his best, delivering line after funny line amid a...
In her university studies, Helen researches the legend of Candyman, the educated son of a slave who in the late 19th century impregnated a white woman and suffered excruciating torture at the hands of...
Ladies, if you were ever unfortunate enough to be able to read into the thoughts of your typical sex-starved male, you’d might be appalled at what you’d find. Lurking in the forefront of his...
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.