#REVIEW: “CLAYFACE”
By Mr. Will Wong
Based on the DC Comics Gotham Noir series and series of characters, CLAYFACE is a successful big screen adaptation for the giant.
This Film, directed by James Watkins, with a Screenplay by Mike Flanagan, centers on Mike Hagen (Tom Rhys Harries), an up-and-coming Hollywood actor whose face is disfigured horribly by a crime boss. He seeks the help of a Scientist to get medical treatment, but his body is transformed into clay-like substance where he can transform into ...
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#REVIEW: “WILDWOOD”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
In 2009, Laika completely changed and revolutionized the way audiences saw animation and specifically stop motion animation with Coraline. Since then, they’ve improved their craft and honed it to be something even more spectacular and magical with entries such as ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, Missing Link and now Wildwood – their longest movie to date earning a rare PG-13 rating but proving that 17 years of innovation and ...
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#REVIEW: “STREET FIGHTER”
By Mr. Will Wong
Nobody goes into the STREET FIGHTER hoping it will be a sweeping Awards Season epic. Nobody. What people go into STREET FIGHTER hoping for, is thrilling action, brutal finishes and maybe some humour in all of it. And if this is what you are looking for, this third film in the franchise is for you.
The Film from Director Kitao Sakurai delivers us the origins story in the friendship between Ken (Noah Centineo) and Ryu (Andrew Koji). Once inseparable as kids who learned martial ...
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#REVIEW: “SENSE AND SENSIBILITY”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Daisy Edgar-Jones shines in this atmospheric adaptation of the beloved Jane Austen classic about love and sisterhood.
Elinor (Edgar-Jones) and Marianne (Esmé Creed-Miles) Dashwood's lives get turned upside down following the death of their father. His Will left their home to their estranged brother-in-law John (Tom Brooke) and his family. After living as guests in their family home, they eventually leave, moving to a cottage in Devonshire. It here ...
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#REVIEW: “WHALEFALL”
Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong
A year after the death of Mitt--a borderline-abusive, deep sea-diving dad (Josh Brolin)--his son Jay (Austin Abrams) honours his memory the only way he knows how: diving underwater to find his remains. But Jay gets a truly raw deal when he's consumed whole by a sperm whale, forced to survive its belly with little more than a tank of oxygen. Whalefall is a movie that completely sold me on its premise alone. How can you possibly set a movie inside a ...
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#REVIEW: “THE SOCIAL RECKONING”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Aaron Sorkin’s back in his traditional procedural form with this companion sequel to The Social Network.
Unlike its predecessor, this time around Sorkin doesn’t follow Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (Jeremy Strong). His focus is on Facebook engineer Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) who enlisted the help of Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to blow the whistle on the social networks most guarded secrets in the ...
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#REVIEW: “VERITY”
By Mr. Will Wong
Colleen Hoover continues a winning streak in film adaptations beginning with the massive success that is IT ENDS WITH US. Director Michael Showalter (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) takes the reins here on her global bestseller, VERITY. If you are looking for something dark. twisty and fully enthralling, this is just what you need.
This Psychological Thriller centers on Lowen (Dakota Johnson) who in her own right is an accomplished Writer. She's NDA'd on an ask to ghost-write for ...
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#REVIEW: “DIGGER”
Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong
Digger Rockwell (Tom Cruise) is an oil baron with seemingly unlimited wealth. He tends to his terminally ill cat, ignoring numerous warnings that something horribly wrong is brewing just under the surface of his massive oil refinery in Greenland. When the shit hits the fan and a massive iceberg hurtles towards Europe, Digger must devise a strategy with the President (John Goodman) and every branch of the US government to contain the unfolding ...
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#REVIEW: “PRIMETIME”
By Mr. Will Wong
Lance Oppenheim's PRIMETIME is a riveting Psychological Horror that looks at a turning point in the ethics of Television, centering on Chris Hansen, who hosted controversial NBC Dateline program, "To Catch a Predator" in the early 2000s. This was the blueprint for what would become reality television.
The said show would have decoy actors posing as minors, luring men on the Internet under the pretense of them meeting for illicit encounters, while they secretly were being ...
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#REVIEW: “HEART OF THE BEAST”
By Mr. Will Wong
David Ayer is back and out to tug on our heartstrings with his latest, HEART OF THE BEAST. This survival thriller, penned by Cameron Alexander, takes us into the wilderness with retired special forces veteran James Belmomt (Brad Pitt) with his trusted best friend Odin (Uber).
James and Odin are enjoying the quiet life following their retirement, after after suffering a medical episode that results in his plane crashing, both he and Odin are forced to use every survival ...
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