Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021)
Although the behind-the-scenes details are sketchy, we know that 2017’s Justice League, though credited to Zack Snyder as the director, was more of the direction that the studio wanted the franchise to go than...
Although the behind-the-scenes details are sketchy, we know that 2017’s Justice League, though credited to Zack Snyder as the director, was more of the direction that the studio wanted the franchise to go than...
2010s / Action / Fantasy / Science Fiction / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published January 22, 2018 · Last modified July 27, 2018
Justice League fulfills the promise made, albeit in perhaps too short an order, of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice at putting together the titular super-team of Earth’s mightiest heroes of the DC Extended Universe in one...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Superhero / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 25, 2016 · Last modified July 13, 2018
Just as Disney’s brand of Marvel films has sought to build an interconnected cinematic universe of characters that will team up on occasion and cross over into each other’s films, now Warner Bros/DC Entertainment...
2010s / Animation / Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy
by Vincent Leo · Published June 19, 2015 · Last modified September 25, 2018
Many Pixar fans, while loyal through superfluous and underwhelming sequels, have been anxiously awaiting their favorite animation studio to go back to the kind of ingenious and original films that have taken family animation...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Superhero / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published June 16, 2013 · Last modified July 16, 2018
Director Zack Snyder (Sucker Punch, Watchmen), Dark Knight trilogy producer Christopher Nolan and screenwriter David S. Goyer (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Jumper) return Superman on the big screen, and that’s not an easy task to do for a...
2000s / Action / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 16, 2008 · Last modified July 31, 2018
My advice to studios: don’t plan for a trilogy when you can’t even get the first film developed thoroughly. This is what happens when a good idea gets studio-botched by too many people with...
1990s / Action / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published April 24, 2006 · Last modified July 1, 2019
Warden: “So, tell me, Rico, what’s the meaning of life?” Rico: “It ends.” The above passage of dialogue could just as aptly be applied to answer what the meaning of the movie is. Judge...
Remember the late 80s, when it seemed like damn near every movie was a paranoid thriller where everyone from the mistress, nanny, girl-next-door, and Fluffy the neighborhood cat was out to destroy the average...
2000s / Comedy / Drama / Sports
by Vincent Leo · Published September 13, 2001 · Last modified June 4, 2019
I’ve often wondered if the TV cartoon “South Park” were to ever be filmed as live action if its millions of fans would still find it funny without the cute cartoon kids using foul...
by Vincent Leo · Published December 30, 2000 · Last modified March 17, 2019
Based on real events that happened back in 1991, and chronicled in Sebastian Junger’s bestseller, this is a mostly speculative account of what happened on board a fishing vessel in the North Atlantic which...
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.