In this follow-up to the wildly popular kinky romance drama Fifty Shades of Grey, we find perpetually blushing publishing-house editorial assistant Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson, A Bigger Splash) making it through life without the help or attention...
by Vincent Leo · Published February 17, 2008 · Last modified November 12, 2019
Actress Julie Delpy writes and directs her starring vehicle with 2 Days in Paris, a look at the tricky relationship that emerges between a French woman and an American man, especially in the culture clashes...
1970s / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published May 11, 2005 · Last modified July 6, 2021
John Carpenter began writing a number of script treatments just out of film school, some of which would be turned into movies. Prior to his breakthrough with Halloween, Eyes originally came to producer Jack...
Some dramas which revolve around relationships, especially with people who speak from raw emotion, make me feel like a voyeur, peeking in on private conversations and intimate moments I wouldn’t ever see otherwise. Then...
by Vincent Leo · Published January 23, 2002 · Last modified March 18, 2019
Here’s a film that’s grown on me over the years. My initial review of this film knocked it for being lesser in terms of humor than its two sequels, but in retrospect, much of...
1970s / Horror / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published May 21, 2000 · Last modified April 22, 2019
By this point in his career, Ray Milland was basically coasting off of his former popularity making TV movies and b-movies like FROGS, so it’s really not a surprise they happened to actually get...
A young Baltimore lad nicknamed Pecker (Furlong, Terminator 2) spends his time taking picture with his thrift store camera of his weird friends and family and displays them in his own photography exhibit. His photographs...
by Vincent Leo · Published February 23, 1999 · Last modified January 22, 2019
In my humble opinion, Rear Window is one of the true masterpieces of cinema. To this day, I can’t find one aspect of this film that doesn’t inspire a feeling of awe, from Hitchcock’s (Strangers on...
This quirky comedy stars Robert De Niro (Goodfellas, Midnight Run) as Wayne “Mad Dog” Dobie, a timid police photographer who saves the life of a local crime boss, Frank (Bill Murray,Groundhog Day), during a robbery....
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.
