Promising Young Woman (2020)
Emerald Fennell was the director, executive producer, and showrunner for season 2 of the darkly comedic TV show “Killing Eve” and works as an actor, most recently as Camilla Parker Bowles in “The Crown.” ...
2020s / Comedy / Drama / Romance / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published February 17, 2021 · Last modified February 19, 2021
Emerald Fennell was the director, executive producer, and showrunner for season 2 of the darkly comedic TV show “Killing Eve” and works as an actor, most recently as Camilla Parker Bowles in “The Crown.” ...
2010s / Action / Fantasy / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published June 12, 2016 · Last modified July 10, 2018
Warcraft is based on the massively popular franchise from Blizzard Entertainment, starting as a PC game series, then branching out to card and tabletop games, novels and comics. As with many video game properties, it...
Set in 2010, Michael Shannon plays an opportunistic Orlando-based real estate agent named Richard ‘Rick’ Carver, who has gone from getting people into homes through sales to getting people out of homes through evictions,...
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...
2010s / Science Fiction / Western
by Vincent Leo · Published August 1, 2011 · Last modified January 6, 2020
An extremely loose, glossy adaptation of the relatively obscure 2006 independent studio graphic novel of the same name by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Cowboys & Aliens isn’t the first mash-up of Westerns and science fiction (Westworld, Wild Wild...
by Vincent Leo · Published October 5, 2006 · Last modified November 12, 2019
Kevin Costner stars as Ben Randall, a Coast Guard swimmer who has dedicated his life to saving others in the ocean in need, at the cost of his wife (Ward) and home life. He then...
An unlikely story to turn into a movie, and an unlikely movie that would turn into a contemporary masterpiece, The Shawshank Redemption not only deserved its Best Picture nomination, but it also deserved to win out...
1980s / Action / Adventure / Fantasy
by Vincent Leo · Published October 30, 2000 · Last modified March 4, 2019
Of all the films I’ve ever seen, Highlander might rank as my favorite guilty pleasure. Granted, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, contains some cheesy acting, bad lighting, hit-and-miss directing, and an awful screenplay,...
1990s / Action / Animation / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published October 4, 1997 · Last modified July 26, 2019
The Joker (voiced by Mark Hamill) is hard up for money so he buys a kryptonite statue and travels to Metropolis, where he concocts a scheme to kill Superman (Daly) for Lex Luthor (Brown) for the amount...
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.