Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
Sonic the Hedgehog is based on the popular video game created by Sega, primarily seen as an effort to give to their console and portable systems a mascot and platform game to compete with...
Sonic the Hedgehog is based on the popular video game created by Sega, primarily seen as an effort to give to their console and portable systems a mascot and platform game to compete with...
First-time feature director Nahnatchka Khan scores nicely in her first feature directorial duty, after a few notable production efforts on television, including the hit, “Fresh Off the Boat”, with Always Be My Maybe (a play...
2010s / Action / Horror / Science Fiction / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published October 8, 2018 · Last modified October 10, 2018
Set in San Francisco, we follow the exploits of scrappy and unscrupulous investigative reporter of some notoriety, Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy, The Revenant), played with manic aggressiveness from Tom Hardy. Michelle Williams plays Eddie’s...
2010s / Animation / Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy
by Vincent Leo · Published June 19, 2015 · Last modified September 25, 2018
Many Pixar fans, while loyal through superfluous and underwhelming sequels, have been anxiously awaiting their favorite animation studio to go back to the kind of ingenious and original films that have taken family animation...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published May 17, 2014 · Last modified July 13, 2018
British film director Gareth Edwards is no stranger to monster movies. After all, he put his name on the proverbial map with one in the low-budget, high-concept monster flick entitled, appropriately enough, Monsters in 2010. Edwards...
1980s / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published November 9, 2007 · Last modified January 22, 2019
In San Francisco, a rich heiress and her maid are found murdered, leaving the husband everything, including the accusation for the killings. That man is Jack Forrester (Bridges, Starman), whose marriage allowed him to rise...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 1, 2007 · Last modified February 7, 2019
Tom Berenger (Major League, Butch & Sundance) plays a rich San Francisco businessman named Tom Merrick, recently involved in a terrible car accident that sees him need major face and body reconstruction in order to...
You have to concede at least a certain brilliance to any consciously manipulative film in which a man looks into the eyes of a puppet, only for the puppet (represented by a dummy, a...
Although many people associate Bullitt with the 10-minute car chase at the heart of the film, and for cementing McQueen’s (and his Ford Mustang) iconic coolness factor, it is also cited by many as the film...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 29, 2006 · Last modified July 9, 2018
The fifth and final Dirty Harry film may not go out with a bang, but it is an amusing and exciting enough cop thriller to please the genre fans. There are no social obstacles to hurdle...
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.