1917 (2019)
1917 takes place in Northern France amid the Great War. Lance Corporals Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) and Schofield (George MacKay) are two British soldiers commanded to carry orders from their General (Colin Firth) across No...
1917 takes place in Northern France amid the Great War. Lance Corporals Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) and Schofield (George MacKay) are two British soldiers commanded to carry orders from their General (Colin Firth) across No...
Billy Batson is a trouble-making fourteen-year-old living in a foster home in Philadelphia, having been abandoned by a young mother he’s been searching for since she left him at a crowded carnival many years...
Jessica Chastain (The Huntsman, Crimson Peak) stars as the Machiavellian strategist Elizabeth Sloane, a shrewd and brilliantly effective lobbyist in Washington DC, whose main goal in any situation is to win at any cost, even...
2010s / Action / Comedy / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 12, 2016 · Last modified February 13, 2019
Sacha Baron Cohen (Les Miserables, The Dictator) continues his formula of crass, envelope-pushing comedies with The Brothers Grimsby (aka Grimsby outside of the US). The formula consists of trying to elicit laughs through sheer outrageousness, absurdity, and lots and...
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...
2010s / Action / Superhero / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published August 17, 2010 · Last modified June 12, 2019
Many before me have commented that Kick-Ass, the movie, is also a kick-ass movie, and I’ll just say that I agree with that assessment. Having been a minor fan of the Mark Millar/John Romita Jr....
by Vincent Leo · Published August 20, 2007 · Last modified June 12, 2019
Set 150 years ago, Tristan is a young man in the small English town of Wall who aims to win the hand of the local beauty (Miller) in exchange for a star that has fallen...
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...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.