Brainstorm (1983)
Brainstorm serves as a new-age science fiction film, treating the future as a mind-blowing and life-altering experience for those who participate, though the film stays grounded within the realm of science for most of the...
Brainstorm serves as a new-age science fiction film, treating the future as a mind-blowing and life-altering experience for those who participate, though the film stays grounded within the realm of science for most of the...
by Vincent Leo · Published January 9, 2013 · Last modified February 13, 2019
In Bruges writer-director Martin McDonagh returns with his eagerly anticipated follow-up, Seven Psychopaths, and it is witty, wacky, weird, and woefully awful all at the same time. This time the setting shifts to the United States,...
After Wayne’s World became a surprise hit, becoming not only the highest grossing film based on an SNL skit, but also among the top 10 biggest money makers of 1992, it was inevitable that a sequel...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 3, 2007 · Last modified February 15, 2019
A View to a Kill is a notable film for some because it would mark the final appearance of Roger Moore (Octopussy, The Cannonball Run) as 007. In my mind, it’s more notable because it is...
There is probably no film this year I’ll struggle with in terms of how I feel about it than Click, a mix of surprisingly mature comedy mixed jarringly with downright juvenile moments of gross-out gags. ...
Are introductions really necessary for Quentin Tarantino’s best film? Pulp Fiction is nearly perfectly executed in every detail, balancing a fine line between tragedy and comedy, the absurdly surreal and the unflinchingly realistic, morally depraved and...
by Vincent Leo · Published August 2, 2005 · Last modified November 25, 2019
The funny bone is in the arm of the beholder, and mine is undoubtedly tickled by Wedding Crashers when it is playing as a comedy. It doesn’t always try, as first-time screenwriters Steve Faber and Bob...
1970s / Adventure / Drama / War
by Vincent Leo · Published August 1, 2005 · Last modified May 23, 2019
Winner of Best Picture of 1978, The Deer Hunter was the first major release to deal with the troubling issue of Vietnam head on, with an often unflinching portrayal of the horrors of the war,...
Twelve years he would put his type of influential thriller on the map in The Silence of the Lambs, Jonathan Demme made an homage to the master of the contemporary thriller himself, Alfred Hitchcock. Last Embrace may...
1990s / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family
by Vincent Leo · Published December 18, 2004 · Last modified May 16, 2019
Dreamworks first big foray into the 3D animation genre proved to be successful with Antz, a beautifully rendered adventure that sparkles with comic dialogue and fantastic special effects. It came out the same year like...
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.