The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
Jim Jarmusch has taken on horror before to success with his 2013 vampire flick, Only Lovers Left Alive. This one takes his usual lightheartedly droll approach to cinema, building on the quirky, bluesy, lackadaisical vibe...
Jim Jarmusch has taken on horror before to success with his 2013 vampire flick, Only Lovers Left Alive. This one takes his usual lightheartedly droll approach to cinema, building on the quirky, bluesy, lackadaisical vibe...
2010s / Comedy / Drama / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published January 21, 2018 · Last modified July 4, 2018
Frances McDormand (The Good Dinosaur, Transformers: Dark of the Moon) plays Mildred Hayes, a financially strapped grieving mother who decides to rent, after selling her ex-husband’s tractor, the use of the titular three mostly dormant...
2010s / Comedy / Drama / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published October 6, 2017 · Last modified August 1, 2018
Bouncing back from his prior fiasco, The Mummy, Tom Cruise (Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation) gets to use his effervescent charm to good effect in American Made, a slick and entertaining production based...
by Vincent Leo · Published February 28, 2017 · Last modified January 20, 2021
Funnyman Jordan Peele’s (of TV’s “Key and Peele”) feature-film directorial debut proves he has quite an eye for filmmaking, crafting a comedy with horror-movie leanings, along with elements of science fiction and thrillers to success,...
2010s / Action / Comedy / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published February 9, 2017 · Last modified July 10, 2018
Back in the late 1990s, there were quite a number of Tarantino knockoffs to come out — hard-boiled and very violent thrillers that featured lots of quirky characters and attempts at amusing, anecdotal conversations...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published June 7, 2011 · Last modified June 12, 2019
Mostly set in the pre-Bay of Pigs Cold War era (early 1960s), X-Men: First Class governs the origin of the X-Men, to be led by Professor Charles Xavier (McAvoy), and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants,...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.