2000s / Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published July 12, 2008 · Last modified April 17, 2019
With Hellboy II: The Golden Army, writer-director Guillermo del Toro (Blade II, Mimic) continues his tradition of making visually magnificent spectacles that succeed not just through gorgeous eye candy, but by giving his characters the room to...
The original 1980 John Carpenter chiller, The Fog, wasn’t a great film by any means, but it did have interesting atmospherics and has achieved minor cult status for lovers of old school horror. Even so,...
2000s / Action / Horror / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published April 3, 2004 · Last modified May 7, 2019
Mike Mignola’s “Hellboy” was a favorite comic of mine for a short while, back when it first appeared in Dark Horse comics in the pages of John Byrne’s “Next Men”, back in the early...
Kill Me Later is based on a short film of the same name, and that’s probably how it should have stayed. At 90 minutes, there just isn’t enough to sustain heavy interest without a lot...
by Vincent Leo · Published February 16, 2002 · Last modified April 16, 2019
It’s time Reese Witherspoon finally comes to terms with the fact that she could very well be the most appealing comedienne working in films today. If she were to do more comedies and fewer...
Scheming step-siblings take delight in controlling the social lives of various students at a New York prep school. Sebastian (Phillippe) plots to seduce every girl in school, while Kathryn (Gellar) delights in tormenting ex-boyfriends and new...
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.
