In this second solo Ant-Man adventure, set before the cataclysmic events in the climax of The Avengers: Infinity War, ex-burglar Scott Lang (Rudd, Mute) is found serving out the final days of his two-year sentence under...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 13, 2013 · Last modified February 9, 2019
Robert De Niro (Silver Linings Playbook, Limitless) stars as Fred Blake (formerly a mob boss named Giovanni Manzoni), who, along with his wife Maggie (Pfeiffer, Dark Shadows) and two teenage children, Belle (Agron, I Am Number Four) and Warren (D’Leo, Cop Out),...
Johnny Depp (On Stranger Tides, The Tourist) stars as 18th Century Maine fishing industrialist Barnabas Collins, who unwittingly becomes the object of vengeance when he betrays his servant Angelique Bouchard (Green, The Golden Compass), who turns...
1980s / Comedy / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published May 26, 2012 · Last modified January 16, 2019
Filmed in 1985, this 1987 comedy is an omnibus of sporadic concepts, most of them revolving around the worlds of pop culture, utilizing a common theme of the kinds of things one might see...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 19, 2011 · Last modified February 7, 2019
Loosely based on the 1984 best-selling novel of the same name by John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick is a broadly dark, risqué comedy. It features a stellar cast, and Jack Nicholson (Prizzi’s Honor, The Postman Always...
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...
Based on Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 1920, The Age of Innocence paints a rather unflattering portrait of a society repressed, where upbringing and social standing marked the actual difference between favor and failure among...
1990s / Action / Fantasy / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published November 27, 2004 · Last modified May 16, 2019
I remember when I was much younger being completely entranced by this sequel to the mega-blockbuster, Batman, for its darkly complex, psychological world of gray-area shades of good vs. evil. Watching it today, I wince...
1980s / Comedy / Drama / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published May 25, 2004 · Last modified May 10, 2019
Two brothers, Frank and Jack Baker (played by real-life brothers Jeff and Beau Bridges), have spent the last 15 years playing gigs together at various lounges as the Fabulous Baker Boys, a two-man pianist...
Based on Janet Fitch’s best-selling novel of the same name, White Oleander plays more like a four-part drama on life-lessons than as a cohesive, conventional thriller. With such a uniquely constructed narrative, it becomes...
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.
