21 Jump Street (2012)
The thought of yet another classic TV show being remade as a modern-day spoof doesn’t exactly fill a savvy moviegoer with delight, as most have been misfires that missed the mark by making little...
2010s / Action / Comedy / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published June 4, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2019
The thought of yet another classic TV show being remade as a modern-day spoof doesn’t exactly fill a savvy moviegoer with delight, as most have been misfires that missed the mark by making little...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy
by Vincent Leo · Published June 1, 2014 · Last modified January 18, 2019
Jay Baruchel (Fanboys, Knocked Up) voices the protagonist, Hiccup, a young Viking living in a tiny village called Berk. Berk’s inhabitants have little to live for except to fend off countless attacks by a wide...
Set in the fictional town of Old Stump, Arizona in 1882, Seth MacFarlane stars as Albert Stark, a skittish sheep farmer who has been recently dumped by his beloved girlfriend Louise (Seyfried), who quickly...
1950s / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published May 29, 2014 · Last modified August 20, 2019
Very loosely based on the story by Charles Perrault, as well as the reinterpretation by the Brothers Grimm, this now-classic Disney film would initially prove a financial disappointment that would see the studio get...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published May 24, 2014 · Last modified June 12, 2019
Days of Future Past starts off in the near future, where mutants are being hunted to near extinction by super-sophisticated robots known as Sentinels. Not only mutants but homo sapiens carrying the mutant genes as...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published May 17, 2014 · Last modified July 13, 2018
British film director Gareth Edwards is no stranger to monster movies. After all, he put his name on the proverbial map with one in the low-budget, high-concept monster flick entitled, appropriately enough, Monsters in 2010. Edwards...
Indie film giant Jim Jarmusch writes and directs another genre musing with Only Lovers Left Alive, which offers a different take on the vampire movie, a subgenre that one would think would have few new...
Joe Versus the Volcano ranks among a very select category of movies that miss the mark in terms of quality, but which has an unmistakably appealing nature that makes you like it despite it. While...
2010s / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published April 16, 2014 · Last modified July 24, 2018
Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Incendies) directs this loosely surreal Javier Guillon (The Boy Who Smells Like Fish, Invader) adaptation of the 2002 Jose Saramago novel, “The Double.” Some viewers will see tangential similarities to the...
While it may pale somewhat in comparison to another independent film with a title that is monosyllabic nickname for coffee, Mud, Joe still ultimately emerges as a fine, lesser companion piece than a just a simple variation...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.