Richard Lester (A Hard Day’s Night, The Three Musketeers) replaces a disgruntled Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon, Conspiracy Theory) as the director for Superman II after many scenes, about three quarters of it, had been filmed by Donner...
Tim Burton (Dark Shadows, Alice in Wonderland) surely must have heard many of his casting choices in films over the years, with a plethora of young actresses with pasty skin and big eyes, as reminiscent...
2010s / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 6, 2011 · Last modified January 6, 2020
The Adjustment Bureau is the latest Hollywood adaptation of a Philip K. Dick work, this time of one of his short stories, “Adjustment Team” (one presumes the title was changed to ‘Bureau’ to make the...
A fictional adaptation based on the autobiographical book by Danny Wallace, Yes Man hermistars Jim Carrey (Horton Hears a Who, The Number 23) as Carl Allen, a bank loan officer who becomes a bit of a...
1990s / Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published March 7, 2007 · Last modified February 13, 2019
The Phantom Menace marks the first new Star Wars theatrical feature in over 15 years, and it seems the fans that watched the earlier films as children have now grown up to adulthood. As a consequence, not...
1980s / Action / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published November 11, 2006 · Last modified September 16, 2020
The seeds of Alien Nation started late in 1985 when producer Richard Kobritz looked for a writer for another horror project after Christine involving a killer doll for Columbia Pictures called Mechanicals. He eventually hired...
2000s / Action / Adventure / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published January 18, 2005 · Last modified January 6, 2020
In the comic book world, Elektra has always been more of a third-tier “superhero,” who has had her purpose and enjoyed a brief moment in the spotlight due to her philandering with a well-known...
Here’s another one of those movies that the critics had a feeding frenzy over, tearing it mercilessly apart, and proclaiming it one of the worst films of the year. Yet again, I watch it...
2000s / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published November 20, 2000 · Last modified March 29, 2019
Red Planet is the fourth attempt in the last year to try to make the same storyline work and come up short. Supernova, Pitch Black and Mission to Mars all dealt with an Earth-mission to another planet, only to have...
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.
