King Kong (1933)
Godzilla may be the King of Monsters, but King Kong may forever be the king of monster movies. A fantastic and lasting adventure, King Kong works on multiple levels. Although it was a spectacular feat in special effects...
1930s / Adventure / Fantasy / Horror
by Vincent Leo · Published November 26, 2005 · Last modified May 29, 2019
Godzilla may be the King of Monsters, but King Kong may forever be the king of monster movies. A fantastic and lasting adventure, King Kong works on multiple levels. Although it was a spectacular feat in special effects...
Part of a very short list of lowbrow comedies that actually are funny enough to be worthwhile, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo may be a stupid film, but the laughs are there. Obviously, this kind of crass...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 25, 2005 · Last modified May 13, 2020
In December of 1974, ABC’s Michael Eisner saw 1933’s King Kong on TV with his family and remarked what a great movie it had been for its time. In early-mid April of 1975, Eisner...
2000s / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published November 24, 2005 · Last modified August 12, 2019
There are movies that one recommends for the characterizations and the cleverness in the dialogue rather than the story or plot. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang strikes me as one of those kinds of movies. That’s...
1970s / Drama / Musical / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published November 24, 2005 · Last modified May 29, 2019
In my opinion, New York New York is the most underrated of Scorsese’s films. Coming after Taxi Driver, critics probably grew restless looking for more signs of a genius filmmaker that they thought Scorsese to be within...
Claire Danes stars as Mirabelle, who has recently moved to Los Angeles from her Vermont upbringing and has secured a job working as a salesperson in the glove department of the chic Saks Fifth...
Barry Newman stars as Kowalski, a cross-country deliverer of cars for clients that makes a bet that he can drive a 1970 Dodge Challenger from Denver to San Francisco in a short amount of...
The Last Picture Show primarily follows the exploits of two small-town Texas high school buddies on the cusp of graduation during the early 1950s, Sonny (Bottoms) and Duane (Bridges). Duane is currently dating the...
It’s Nicolas Cage doing what he does best, play a self-defeating loser, in The Weather Man, a bigger budget Hollywood release that feels like a small, quirky independent comedy. It’s a comedy that just barely...
2000s / Comedy / Drama / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published October 29, 2005 · Last modified May 29, 2019
Prime ostensibly gets its title from the theory that men reach their sexual prime in their early adulthood, while women hit it as they approach 40. Writer-director Ben Younger goes a step further in...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.