The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
Terry Gilliam’s passion project finally arrives on the big screen after decades of production limbo and a variety of aborted efforts to bring a “Don Quixote” film to completion. The closest he came before...
Terry Gilliam’s passion project finally arrives on the big screen after decades of production limbo and a variety of aborted efforts to bring a “Don Quixote” film to completion. The closest he came before...
2010s / Comedy / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published November 12, 2015 · Last modified December 11, 2019
Monty Python’s Terry Jones directs and co-scripts this silly special effects-driven comedy, reportedly inspired by an H.G. Wells story (“The Man Who Could Work Miracles”), that delivers on a few decent laughs, but not...
1990s / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published February 20, 2007 · Last modified November 21, 2019
Surely there is very real and very convincing data that the planet cannot survive the excesses of the human race: the proliferation of atomic devices, uncontrolled breeding habits, the rape of the environment, the...
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT isn’t so much an original movie as it is an anthology slapped together of a recreation of some of the best sketches of their television show from their...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 22, 1998 · Last modified February 27, 2019
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is am attempt at a very literal film translation of the infamous 1971 novel by Hunter S. Thompson relating his drug-induced hallucinatory trip through Las Vegas when trying to cover...
1980s / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published October 30, 1998 · Last modified February 4, 2019
A young boy (Warnock) jumps into a time hole with six dwarves who have stolen the Supreme Being’s (Richardson, Rollerball) map for time travel locations. They then proceed to go from age to age, including meeting...
by Vincent Leo · Published May 12, 1997 · Last modified January 16, 2019
The legendary Baron Munchausen (Neville, Little Women), fabled to tell wild and fanciful stories, in the late 18th Century finds himself at the end of his life, just as the Age of Reason begins. The...
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.