The film that launched Natalie Portman's career wouldn't have starred the future Oscar winner at all if her parents had ...

Released in 1994, Luc Besson’s Leon: The Professional is considered a masterpiece. A crime thriller, the movie featured Natalie Portman as Mathilda and Jean Reno as Leon, the hitman with a heart.

Léon’s sacrifice for Mathilda, the grenade trap that stops Stansfield, and the meaning of the final plant scene ...

Luc Besson’s taste for wacky plots, extravagant action and grandiose romance reached its climax with this deeply strange and much-loved crime movie about a 12-year-old girl, Mathilda, (Natalie Portman ...

It must be Luc Besson appreciation month, as "deluxe editions" of Besson's visually opulent The Fifth Element and artistically violent Leon The Professional have recently surfaced. Of course, the ...

One of the most oft-filmed cities on the planet, New York takes on a renewed sense of the exotic in Luc Besson’s 1994 action drama, Leon: The Professional. Accompanied by Eric Serra’s imaginative ...

Unlike La Femme Nikita, Besson's ultra-stylish female hit-woman action/drama, Leon: The Professional never got a remake, which, looking at Point of No Return, is a good thing. Maybe it's because ...