Joe Leydon

The logline smacks of "Groundhog Day" -- a virginal high-school senior repeatedly relives the same day until he achieves enlightenment, if not defloration -- but "Premature" winds up resembling nothing...

After scoring a surprise box office success with his "2016: Obama's America," an agitprop portrait of our current U.S. president as a "breathtakingly anti-American" radical, conservative author and sociopolitical commentator...

What if Elvis Presley's identical twin brother hadn't been delivered stillborn? What if he had been surreptitiously adopted and raised to adulthood by other parents, without the King ever knowing,...

A sci-fi thriller as generic as its title, "Alien Abduction" generates only low-voltage shocks, taking a found-footage approach to its familiar scenario about hapless earthlings hunted by inquisitive extraterrestrials. Released...

It's a suggestion every filmmaker dreads reading while perusing notes from a producer: "Can't you make your protagonist more likable?" But in the case of "Sequoia," such a recommendation might...

Choreographer Elizabeth Streb extols the virtues and values of dance as contact sport, carnival sideshow and high-risk daredevilry in "Born to Fly," a biographical portrait of the artist as a...

Neither as purposefully spooky nor as inadvertently campy as the low-budget '50s sci-fiers it often recalls, "Honeymoon" is the sort of flat and forgettable genre exercise that fills holes in...