Soul (2020)
Jamie Foxx voices Joe Gardner, a middle-aged music teacher at a New York public middle school. Joe is frustrated by his lack of success toward becoming a professional jazz club musician and trying to...
2020s / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Musical
by Vincent Leo · Published January 18, 2021
Jamie Foxx voices Joe Gardner, a middle-aged music teacher at a New York public middle school. Joe is frustrated by his lack of success toward becoming a professional jazz club musician and trying to...
The third entry in the Bill & Ted franchise had started and stopped for decades, partially because studios thought a reboot with new teenage slackers from San Dimas high school would be better than a...
2010s / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published April 4, 2017 · Last modified August 1, 2018
The Discovery offers up an interesting theoretical drama about what might occur from a sociological standpoint if it were to be proven that there’s life after death. The film posits that the fear of death...
1990s / Horror / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 1, 2015 · Last modified April 22, 2019
Flatliners is a difficult film to pigeonhole. It’s sci-fi, but not really, and it’s horror, but not really that either. It’s more like a supernatural drama/thriller that dabbles with the question of the afterlife,...
1970s / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published April 3, 2005 · Last modified May 20, 2019
Harry Segall’s play became the basis for a popular film way back in 1941 with Here Comes Mr. Jordan, and while Heaven Can Wait may not quite live up to the classic status of that film, it...
Defending Your Life is a wryly witty and very amusing comedy from the mind of writer-director Albert Brooks, who gives a hilarious take on the process of what happens after we die. Apparently, we all...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.