Dragged Across Concrete is writer-director S. Craig Zahler’s further exploration of the seamy underbelly of American society, particularly through the prism of how that experience causes ripple effects that throw even innocent people into...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 10, 2007 · Last modified December 16, 2019
The proverbial lumps of coal (boy, isn’t this phrase becoming a trite cliché for movie critics?) called the family Christmas movie get trotted out toward the end of almost every year. For every good...
Brooke (Aniston) and Gary (Vaughn) are live-in lovers that get into a heated argument about Gary’s choice of slacking, rather than voluntarily assisting his insufferable girlfriend with the daily chores. Brooke gets so frustrated that she...
Jon Favreau stars as Mike, is a recently relocated New Yorker trying to make it big as a comedian/actor in Hollywood, but finding that the road to his dreams is filled with one detour...
by Vincent Leo · Published August 2, 2005 · Last modified November 25, 2019
The funny bone is in the arm of the beholder, and mine is undoubtedly tickled by Wedding Crashers when it is playing as a comedy. It doesn’t always try, as first-time screenwriters Steve Faber and Bob...
2000s / Action / Comedy / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published June 12, 2005 · Last modified July 2, 2019
Mr. and Mrs. Smith is a potentially smart romantic comedy buried underneath too many layers of dumb summer blockbuster action extravaganza. If all you’re looking for is a little jocularity, a little romantic chemistry,...
Following ten years after Get Shorty, Be Cool is the second installment in the Chili Palmer saga, adapted from the novel by Elmore Leonard. Alas, the magic of the original is just not there, as it mostly...
Will Ferrell delivers again, with a little help from his friends, in this scattershot comedy that manages to hit just enough hilarious moments to look past the fact that there isn’t a well-developed, cohesive...
2000s / Action / Comedy / Sports
by Vincent Leo · Published June 21, 2004 · Last modified May 10, 2019
Rawson Marshall Thurber may be a first-time big-screen writer-director, but he had already made a splash in sports comedy with a series of television commercials for Reebok called, “Terry Tate: Office Linebacker”. Thurber started...
Starsky & Hutch is yet another big screen recreation of an old classic TV show, and like many others that have been made in recent years, it isn’t so much an homage or a...
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.
