Keanu (2016)
Sketch comedy stars Key & Peele aim to take their humor to the big screen with Keanu, an action-comedy that sees the racial stereotype-breaking comedians have to embrace those stereotypes in order to infiltrate a...
Sketch comedy stars Key & Peele aim to take their humor to the big screen with Keanu, an action-comedy that sees the racial stereotype-breaking comedians have to embrace those stereotypes in order to infiltrate a...
1980s / Action / Comedy / Martial Arts / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published November 13, 2008 · Last modified November 25, 2018
A jumbled mix of various genres popular among African-American moviegoers, Motown king Berry Gordy lent his name and label’s music to this film that blends blaxtploitation, martial arts, and music videos into a lowbrow...
by Vincent Leo · Published April 16, 2007 · Last modified February 11, 2019
Two small time thieves named Val (Henry, Star Trek: Insurrection) and Porter (Gibson, Lethal Weapon 4) put the moves on a Chinese gang to steal $140,000. They are supposed to split it evenly, but Val needs the money...
Lucy Emerson (Wiest) is a divorced mother of two teenage sons, Michael (Patric) and Sam (Haim), who relocates to the strange oceanside California town of Santa Carla, which is filled with a mix of punk...
I like films about superheroes. I like Robert Townsend. A film by Robert Townsend about superheroes would seem like it couldn’t miss with me. It does — and by a lot. Meteor Man was created...
1960s / Comedy / Drama / Western
by Vincent Leo · Published November 29, 2003 · Last modified May 2, 2019
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was a nostalgic Western at the time of its release, and in time, most people were nostalgic for this film itself. It’s a deceptively complex film, and a...
1990s / Action / Martial Arts / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published July 11, 1998 · Last modified February 11, 2019
LAPD Detectives Riggs (Gibson, Conspiracy Theory) and Murtaugh (Glover, The Rainmaker) are back on the streets, this time trying to bring down a Chinese Triad who are involved in importing Chinese slaves, and using them to counterfeit money...
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.