RoboCop (1987)
A fantastic science fiction film, subversively posing as a cheesy b-movie, RoboCop is one of the smartest, funniest, and gutsiest movies of its era. Filled to the brim with cheeky social commentary, this is one...
A fantastic science fiction film, subversively posing as a cheesy b-movie, RoboCop is one of the smartest, funniest, and gutsiest movies of its era. Filled to the brim with cheeky social commentary, this is one...
2010s / Action / Comedy / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published February 4, 2016 · Last modified August 30, 2018
Turbo Kid is a Canadian/New Zealand-produced campy retro pastiche of some of the kitschy b-movie entertainment of the 1980s. We get a tip of the hat to its intent from the opening screen depicting that...
After a nearly 10-year hiatus from feature films, Don Coscarelli, the director behind such cult B-movies as The Beastmaster, Phantasm, and Bubba Ho-Tep, helms this intentionally trippy horror comedy that is bound to become a cult classic...
1980s / Horror / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published June 1, 2005 · Last modified May 20, 2019
For generations, people have rumored that there were alligators in big city sewers, flushed down the toilets by owners of baby alligators who no longer wanted to care for them as they became larger...
Either a terrible A-list movie or a great B-movie, depending on your point of view, Anaconda is by all accounts one of the schlockiest large budget releases to ever come from a major studio. Even...
Sometimes it’s best to let sleeping genres lie. Eight Legged Freaks is an attempt to bring back the b-movie creature features with enhanced CGI for today’s more discriminating audiences. Ellory Elkayem writes and directs it,...
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.