Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Hobbs & Shaw is a spinoff to the Fast & Furious series, putting together two of the more popular characters in the later stages of the series, mostly playing for laughs off of their competitive...
Hobbs & Shaw is a spinoff to the Fast & Furious series, putting together two of the more popular characters in the later stages of the series, mostly playing for laughs off of their competitive...
1990s / Mystery / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published September 15, 2015 · Last modified July 2, 2024
As a young boy, Alex Proyas was deathly afraid of the dark, even more so when he began experiencing recurring nightmares involving strange-looking bald men who come out at night and chase him with...
2010s / Action / Drama / Thriller / War
by Vincent Leo · Published March 16, 2015 · Last modified December 5, 2019
At its heart, ’71 is a standard caught-behind-enemy-lines story of someone trying desperately to make it back home alive, yet encountering trouble at seemingly every turn. The sparsely worded script by Gregory Burke ups the...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 2, 2015 · Last modified August 9, 2018
The Divergent series is like that stick of chewing gum you popped into your mouth before a big meeting that you keep chewing on long, long, long after the flavor has gone. You want to spit...
1970s / Action / Comedy / Drama
by Vincent Leo · Published December 2, 2013 · Last modified August 7, 2018
The Sugarland Express tells the tale, based on true events chronicled in 1969, of Clovis (Atherton, Ghostbusters) and Lou Jean Poplin (Hawn,Foul Play), a married couple from Texas who determine to travel hundreds of miles to Sugarland,...
by Vincent Leo · Published October 11, 2013 · Last modified January 15, 2020
David Lowery writes and directs this Badlands-esque, lyrically melancholy, Western-tinged, Texas-based drama about outlaw Bob Muldoon (Affleck), a convicted felon who makes his way out of prison to try to reconnect with Ruth Guthrie (Mara),...
2010s / Adventure / Drama / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published April 28, 2013 · Last modified August 9, 2018
Writer-director Jeff Nichols continues to impress with his character-driven pieces, and, coming after the acclaimed Take Shelter, Mud is sure to put his name even higher on many a film buff’s list of directors to follow. At...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 26, 2008 · Last modified March 6, 2019
Chevy Chase (Caddyshack, Modern Problems) stars as Nick Gardenia, a divorced writer who is abducted from his secluded Big Sur, California bungalow at gunpoint and forced to rob a bank by a couple of two-bit...
Thelma Dickinson (Davis, Quick Change) and Louise Sawyer (Sarandon, White Palace) are two Arkansas women stuck in stagnant relationships, who decide to finally do something fun for themselves when they go on a two-day fishing trip, or so...
Probably near the top of the list of sequels that never needed to be made is The Net 2.0, an in-name-only sequel to 1995’s very modest hit, The Net. The premise is simple: an attractive American...
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.