Dark Phoenix (2019)
Simon Kinberg takes over the directorial duties this time out, covering ground he’s covered before in his (and Zak Penn’s) screenplay to X-Men: The Last Stand, which took from one of the most popular...
Simon Kinberg takes over the directorial duties this time out, covering ground he’s covered before in his (and Zak Penn’s) screenplay to X-Men: The Last Stand, which took from one of the most popular...
Style Wars is a documentary look at the street art among the youth of New York in the early 1980s, especially in the South Bronx, particularly in graffiti art and break-dancing. The film takes...
by Vincent Leo · Published August 23, 2007 · Last modified December 9, 2019
Dan Evans (Heflin) is a struggling, drought-stricken rancher desperate for money who agrees to help escort Ben Wade (Ford), the leader of a band of outlaws, at gunpoint to take the train to Yuma where,...
Runaway Train was originally an Akira Kurosawa project called back in the mid-1960s, which would have been an American production for the famous Japanese filmmaker. The screenplay was written, but unfortunately, the project never...
1970s / Comedy / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published May 24, 2004 · Last modified May 10, 2019
Silver Streak is the first of two Colin Higgins scripts to emulate the lighter side of Hitchcock (Foul Play is the other), and even though no one would ever confuse the quality of this film with...
Helen gets fired from her job, then catches a train…and misses the train…well, she does both! You see, this film explores how Helen’s life would progress if she catches the train and if she...
1930s / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published November 21, 1996 · Last modified January 18, 2019
A young woman (Lockwood, Night Train to Munich) heads home by train for her wedding, but along the way discovers that the woman she has tea with (Whitty, Suspicion) mysteriously disappears. After searching the train and questioning fellow...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.