Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Rogue One is a Star Wars prequel that spins off of the line at the beginning of the original Star Wars (Episode IV) that mentions that rebel spies stole the secret plans for the Death Star. This one has...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published December 22, 2016 · Last modified July 4, 2018
Rogue One is a Star Wars prequel that spins off of the line at the beginning of the original Star Wars (Episode IV) that mentions that rebel spies stole the secret plans for the Death Star. This one has...
2010s / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical
by Vincent Leo · Published November 25, 2016 · Last modified July 16, 2018
Moana (Cravalho, her debut) is the chief’s daughter within her tribe on the New Zealand island of Motunui. Unlike most girls in her Maori village, she is destined to be the chief of her...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Science Fiction / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published November 7, 2014 · Last modified January 5, 2019
Like most superhero projects that are put up on the big screen, Disney’s Big Hero 6 has its origins from the world of comic books, though this take is very loosely adapted from its inception in...
2010s / Animation / Comedy / Family
by Vincent Leo · Published December 1, 2012 · Last modified November 25, 2019
When the kids leave the arcade, the game characters come to life (in their own cyber world, anyway — akin to Toy Story). Wreck-It Ralph (Reilly) is a ‘bad-guy’ video game character who is tired...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published July 21, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2018
I am of a mind to think that I should just write one review to cover all of the Michael Bay Transformers series, as the strengths and weaknesses are virtually identical in each respective film. It...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 14, 2007 · Last modified December 9, 2019
2007’s version of 3:10 to Yuma is the right way to remake a classic film. Instead of a complete rehash with saltier material, or something so divergent as to be unrecognizable, the screenplay by Michael Brand and...
2000s / Action / Comedy / Sports
by Vincent Leo · Published June 21, 2004 · Last modified May 10, 2019
Rawson Marshall Thurber may be a first-time big-screen writer-director, but he had already made a splash in sports comedy with a series of television commercials for Reebok called, “Terry Tate: Office Linebacker”. Thurber started...
Sandra Bullock plays a newspaper columnist who is forced to enter a drug rehab facility or face going to jail after she steals a limo and ends up in an accident. While there, she...
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