Derek Zoolander (Stiller, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb) is back, the eternally daft and narcissistic male supermodel, now retired and reclusive, who has been persuaded by a ‘fashion police’ agent working for Interpol,...
1990s / Mystery / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published September 15, 2015 · Last modified May 15, 2024
In late 1989, Australian filmmaker Alex Proyas wrote the first script for Dark City, a fantasy concept that had percolated in his mind since he was a child deathly afraid of the dark. Proyas...
1990s / Horror / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 1, 2015 · Last modified April 22, 2019
Flatliners is a difficult film to pigeonhole. It’s sci-fi, but not really, and it’s horror, but not really that either. It’s more like a supernatural drama/thriller that dabbles with the question of the afterlife,...
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...
Yes, it’s another farfetched serial killer flick, clutching desperately at a new twist to the genre, but the contortions the plot goes through to try to make this premise fly is downright embarrassing. It’s...
Phone Booth is B-movie theatrics given A-movie treatment. If this were an independent short film, like the student film where this reportedly draws its inspiration, End of the Line, it would be a terrific idea, at...
Obviously, I will be in the minority of people who don’t think A Few Good Men is a great movie worthy of an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. Personally, I find the direction by Rob...
Those who think Young Guns one of the best Westerns ever made must either not have seen many or have incredibly short term memories. I would not even claim that Young Guns is a good film at all,...
The story: A writer (Dreyfuss, Jaws) reminisces about his journey with three of his friends to find the missing body of a dead boy when they were twelve. Stand by Me is a simple story (based on...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.
