Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
Sonic the Hedgehog is based on the popular video game created by Sega, primarily seen as an effort to give to their console and portable systems a mascot and platform game to compete with...
Sonic the Hedgehog is based on the popular video game created by Sega, primarily seen as an effort to give to their console and portable systems a mascot and platform game to compete with...
1980s / Horror / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published August 20, 2019 · Last modified October 1, 2019
Tobe Hooper directs this ambitious and downright strange effort for The Cannon Group called Lifeforce, based off of a deliberately Lovecraftian 1976 novel from Colin Wilson called, “The Space Vampires”, which has a reputation...
Although the original Men in Black trilogy had mostly run out of ideas, not in its third film, but halfway through its first, Hollywood is never one to leave a once-popular franchise dormant for long,...
Simon Kinberg takes over the directorial duties this time out, covering ground he’s covered before in his (and Zak Penn’s) screenplay to X-Men: The Last Stand, which took from one of the most popular...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published January 5, 2019
For the first time in the six films in the franchise thus far, the reins of a Transformers flick has been given to someone whose name is not Michael Bay. In the case of the...
2010s / Action / Horror / Science Fiction / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published October 8, 2018 · Last modified October 10, 2018
Set in San Francisco, we follow the exploits of scrappy and unscrupulous investigative reporter of some notoriety, Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy, The Revenant), played with manic aggressiveness from Tom Hardy. Michelle Williams plays Eddie’s...
2010s / Action / Horror / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published September 23, 2018 · Last modified October 2, 2018
The Predator starts off with a spaceship that has crash landed in a forest somewhere in Mexico, resulting in Quinn McKenna (Boyd Holbrook, Logan), a highly skilled sniper from the U.S. Army who is in...
1980s / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published September 7, 2018 · Last modified September 8, 2018
Another Spielberg-ian family film from director Joe Dante, although unlike his previous film, Gremlins, it isn’t produced by Steven Spielberg’s production house, despite it being obviously influenced in its wide-eyed sense of discovery, optimism, and...
1970s / Action / Science Fiction / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published July 14, 2018 · Last modified July 16, 2018
Heralded by some as the greatest superhero film of all time, Superman is an epic befitting a legendary, larger-than-life comic book deity. No easy feat for a character so well-known and revered by millions the world...
2010s / Horror / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 29, 2017 · Last modified July 27, 2018
An Alien clone, but effective enough to provide a couple of hours of effective jolts, Daniel Espinosa’s (Child 44, Safe House) attempt at delivering the monster-on-the-spaceship premise gets dusted off for one more go-around in Life. Zombieland and Deadpool writing partners Rhett...
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.