What the makers of modern, Hollywood versions of Godzilla fail to realize is that audiences don’t enjoy the character’s movies because of the visual effects, the massive destruction, or the rational explanations of the...
2010s / Comedy / Drama / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published December 27, 2013 · Last modified July 31, 2018
Martin Scorsese (Shutter Island, Shine A Light) directs the Terence Winter (Get Rich or Die Tryin’, “Boardwalk Empire”) adaptation of the best-selling memoir from multimillionaire stock broker Jordan Belfort, turning it into the closest thing...
Zero Dark Thirty, or ‘oh dark thirty’, the military’s way of saying ‘sometime in the middle of the night’, (here, it alludes to the local time of the attack on the compound in Pakistan reenacted...
by Vincent Leo · Published December 20, 2005 · Last modified May 29, 2019
It’s a tall order to have to remake a well-known classic, especially one that still is able to thrill audiences today. Despite its popularity, King Kong is an example of a classic film that actually could...
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.
