Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
It shouldn’t have been this bad. Superman portrayer, Christopher Reeve (Rear Window, The Remains of the Day), had a vision to make a statement with the fourth film in the series, offered a return to...
1980s / Action / Science Fiction / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published August 3, 2018 · Last modified August 6, 2018
It shouldn’t have been this bad. Superman portrayer, Christopher Reeve (Rear Window, The Remains of the Day), had a vision to make a statement with the fourth film in the series, offered a return to...
1980s / Action / Comedy / Science Fiction / Superhero / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published July 28, 2018
Superman III is the first in the series without any trace of the guiding hands of director Richard Donner and acclaimed writer Mario Puzo, leaving the franchise completely in the hands of Superman II‘s clean-up director, Richard...
Richard Lester (A Hard Day’s Night, The Three Musketeers) replaces a disgruntled Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon, Conspiracy Theory) as the director for Superman II after many scenes, about three quarters of it, had been filmed by Donner...
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...
1980s / Drama / Fantasy / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published October 10, 2005 · Last modified May 28, 2019
Like something from out of the past itself, Somewhere in Time is an old-fashioned romance that came out at a time when such movies were no longer being made. Missing an audience at the time of...
Another beautifully crafted literary adaptation from the team of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, The Remains of the Day ranks among their very best work. Their names are already synonymous with the genre of the British...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 23, 1998 · Last modified January 22, 2019
A man involved in a near fatal car accident becomes a wheelchair-ridden paraplegic, and through his strong desire for voyeurism and some cheap entertainment watches his neighbors though his second story Soho apartment. In...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.