After two films done primarily in English in 2013’s Snowpiercer and the 2017 Netflix release Okja, Bong Joon-ho returns to purely Korean-language filmmaking for the first time since 2009 with his black comic satire, Parasite, arguably...
Genre-hopping writer-director Rian Johnson has done a neo-noir teen flick in Brick, a family crime dramedy in The Brothers Bloom, a twisty time-travel sci-fi excursion in Looper. More famously, he also ushered in the...
Kitsch-master John Waters, after a rare seven-year hiatus from making films, takes a loving, though critical, look back at the early 1960s, utilizing the craze for dance shows on television to explore heavier issues...
2010s / Comedy / Horror / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 21, 2019 · Last modified March 22, 2019
As a young girl living in the coastal California town of Santa Cruz in 1986, Adelaide walked away from her parents while at the beach boardwalk amusement park, into a seemingly empty fun house,...
by Vincent Leo · Published December 28, 2014 · Last modified January 28, 2019
For me, James Cameron’s Titanic has always been a tale of two halves. The first half — the setup — is schmaltzy and not particularly well written. The second — the disaster movie — is balls-out,...
Some people may be too young to remember the days when Dan Aykroyd or Eddie Murphy could make a funny movie or even director John Landis for that matter. They say that comedy is all...
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.
