The Good Dinosaur (2015)
Offering up a sort of alternate prehistory on what might have happened had the theoretical asteroid that hit Earth 65 million years ago that wiped out all of the dinosaurs not occurred, dinosaurs are...
2010s / Adventure / Animation / Family
by Vincent Leo · Published November 25, 2015 · Last modified July 2, 2018
Offering up a sort of alternate prehistory on what might have happened had the theoretical asteroid that hit Earth 65 million years ago that wiped out all of the dinosaurs not occurred, dinosaurs are...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published November 21, 2014 · Last modified February 6, 2020
The Hunger Games films veer off into a different direction with Mockingjay, Part 1, as we no longer have a highly televised arena featuring combatants battling to the death so much as a battle for the people...
Indie film giant Jim Jarmusch writes and directs another genre musing with Only Lovers Left Alive, which offers a different take on the vampire movie, a subgenre that one would think would have few new...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published November 21, 2013 · Last modified February 6, 2020
Catching Fire is the much-anticipated follow-up to the wildly popular The Hunger Games, based on the young adult book series by Suzanne Collins. With the new film comes a new director, Francis Lawrence, who gives us...
2010s / Action / Mystery / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published April 7, 2011 · Last modified July 10, 2018
Oh, how to relate the plot? Jake Gyllenhaal (Prince of Persia, Jarhead) stars as Air Force Captain Colter Stevens, a U.S. pilot in the War in Afghanistan who finds himself inhabiting the body of a...
by Vincent Leo · Published October 18, 2008 · Last modified February 10, 2019
A politics hawk like myself will find the premise of W. fascinating above and beyond the merit of its filmmaking value. Oliver Stone (World Trade Center, U-Turn) has been an uneven director throughout his career, and if...
Although M. Night Shyamalan is a very talented writer and director, his films are becoming progressively more ambitious, and unfortunately, progressively tricky to suspend disbelief in. Lady in the Water is his most ambitious film yet,...
Nicely directed by quirky filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, and just as nicely performed in the comic subtlety department by veteran Bill Murray, Broken Flowers may lose more mainstream audiences expecting an obvious laugh riot, but those looking...
Gripping in parts, convoluted and stagnant in others, Syriana is screenwriter Steven Gaghan’s attempt to provide an insider’s peek into the varying forces at play in the continuing Middle Eastern oil and terrorism struggles, similar...
Remaking a time-honored classic film seems like a useless task, as part of the reason why the original is considered classic is due to the ability to endure over time and speak to different...
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.