The Irishman (2019)
The Irishman is a tale spun from the vantage point of an older man in a nursing home and displayed through a series of extended confessional flashbacks. Robert De Niro takes the lead role...
The Irishman is a tale spun from the vantage point of an older man in a nursing home and displayed through a series of extended confessional flashbacks. Robert De Niro takes the lead role...
2010s / Adventure / Animation / Family
by Vincent Leo · Published November 25, 2015 · Last modified July 2, 2018
Offering up a sort of alternate prehistory on what might have happened had the theoretical asteroid that hit Earth 65 million years ago that wiped out all of the dinosaurs not occurred, dinosaurs are...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 28, 2007 · Last modified February 10, 2019
Victorian-era New Zealand is the setting for this very intriguing story of Ada McGrath (Hunter, Broadcast News), a mute woman, as well as her young daughter Flora (Paquin, A Walk on the Moon), who comes to...
2000s / Action / Science Fiction / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published December 27, 2006 · Last modified March 17, 2019
Upon first hearing of this project I was skeptical, since it seemed virtually impossible to cram almost 40 years of comic book mythos and the dozens of main characters that are a staple of...
2000s / Action / Fantasy / Science Fiction / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published May 29, 2006 · Last modified June 12, 2019
This is the third installment of the X-Men series, continuing the storylines developed since the first X-Men and the show-stopping finale which culminated in the death of Jean Grey (Janssen) in X2. Jean Grey does make a comeback here,...
by Vincent Leo · Published December 23, 2002 · Last modified December 2, 2019
After watching Spike Lee’s latest joint, 25th Hour, one might begin to suspect Spike has a lot of ideas and an inability to stick with any one of them for very long. Every scene is just...
In the summer of 1969, when the first men landed on the moon and Woodstock was the big event, a family of four (well, five if you include the groom’s mother) travel out to...
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.