JoBeth Williams stars as suburban Ohio housewife and mother Cathy Palmer, who escapes her joyless marriage in her spare time by reading her favorite romantic thriller novels, all starring a Modesty Blaise-like globe-hopping female...
1980s / Comedy / Romance / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 14, 2019 · Last modified March 15, 2019
Rosanna Arquette stars as Roberta Glass, a dreamy, but largely lonely and dissatisfied New Jersey housewife who contents herself to reading about the mysterious lives of others through perusing the personals in the local...
Roseanne Barr stars as Ruth Pratchett, a devoted wife to her accountant hubby Bob (Begley Jr.), and mother to two precocious children. One day while attending a swank party, Bob meets and eventually has...
by Vincent Leo · Published December 28, 2012 · Last modified January 22, 2019
A 1960 family comedy that is quite entertaining for fans of Doris Day (The Man Who Knew Too Much, That Touch of Mink), made at the peak of her popularity. It plays as one long...
David Ondaatje (if the last name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s the nephew of famous novelist Michael) writes and directs (his first attempt at both) this throwback thriller based on the Marie Belloc Londes...
by Vincent Leo · Published January 29, 2007 · Last modified February 6, 2020
Alice Tate (Farrow) is a well-to-do Manhattan housewife who is irresistibly drawn to another parent who brings his child to her school, Joe the sax player (Mantegna), who finds himself also unable to walk away...
Bewitched is a cute idea for a movie, but that’s all it is. It certainly sounds funnier to hear about than to actually watch. It’s not a remake of the television show of the...
The seed for Dressed to Kill was planted in 1974 when filmmaker Brian De Palma adapted Gerald Walker’s 1970 novel, “Cruising”, about an undercover cop searching underground gay clubs for a serial killer. De...
by Vincent Leo · Published December 29, 2002 · Last modified December 9, 2019
After hearing about the cast of the lavish musical screen recreation of the acclaimed Bob Fosse production, Chicago, I was very skeptical that such a musical could be pulled off by a cast that isn’t...
The Hours is the kind of film that either has resonance with you or it doesn’t. It didn’t really for me, but being a young(ish) male, I doubt that it was necessarily meant to. ...
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.
