#REVIEW: “EDGE OF TOMORROW”
Review by Jonathan Godfrey for Mr. Will Wong
Space Marines: soldiers of fortune fighting for the future. A concept birthed by pulp fiction, and an aesthetic sculpted by Gamers. In the beginning only Outcasts and Adolescents daydreamed of becoming Space Marines. Most saw it as a stunted counter-culture, but in time the culture grew. So much so that it’s burst forth from its bubble and run into the mainstream.
Elements of the Space Marine can be found in Films from Aliens to Elysium. However, ...
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#REVIEW: “CHEF”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Jon Favreau is back again in his newest movie Chef which focuses on the fall from grace for Chef Carl Casper, played none other by Jon Favreau himself. Upon going into the Film the first estimation is that the Movie will be soulfully focused on food and the different creations that he makes with his creative mind. Unfortunately, this is not the case and it focuses more on Favreau’s Character development/independence. Surprisingly, cooking or ...
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#REVIEW: “A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
It sounded bizarre and insane on paper, but Ted turned out to be one of the funniest comedies in years. And like many others, I find it to be infinitely re-watchable (lengthy Third Act notwithstanding). So when they announced that Seth MacFarlane’s follow-up would be called A Million Ways to Die in the West, I was a bit skeptical. Jumping from a contemporary comedy about a foul-mouthed stuffed bear to a period western-comedy seemed like a bit of a ...
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#REVIEW: “MALEFICENT”
If there are two things you can take away from Disney’s Maleficent 3D, it is that there truly are two sides to every story. She might be deemed Mistress of All Evil, but what series of events led to her becoming that way?
Maleficent takes us way, way back to the Fairy’s childhood. As a radiant young girl, she falls in love -  despite a great divide between Humans and Fairies - with a young boy named Stefan.  As it happens in life, ambition takes us in different directions and her heart ...
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#REVIEW: “BLENDED”
Let's face it. It's been a long drought for Adam Sandler.  The fact that we repeatedly give him chances despite it all is rather  indicative of our true love for the former Saturday Night Live Alumni, right? When it was learned that he would collaborate once again with Drew Barrymore in the Romantic-Comedy Blended, many of us saw that glimmer of hope.  Let's get what needs to be said out of the way first - the Film unnecessarily  is longer than it needs to be, but beneath it all, this ...
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#REVIEW: “GODZILLA”
Review by Jonathan Godfrey for Mr. Will Wong
The charts displayed a seismic anomaly and a crew was sent to investigate. What was this mysterious movement, and could it be settled? The questioning minds ran as their heart rates quickened. Boom, boom, BOOM! The circumstances became explosive. A New Age had dawned in the recesses of a nuclear facility, an age of Monsters. This was not a nightmare, it was waking reality. Humanity had been eclipsed…
It’s Blockbuster season. Eye Candy abounds, ...
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#REVIEW: “MILLION DOLLAR ARM”
Review by Jonathan Godfrey for Mr. Will Wong
Movies and Baseball go together like peanuts and Cracker Jacks. This all began nearly seventy years ago when Gary Cooper played Lou Gehrig in The Pride of the Yankees. Thereafter the genre developed and eventually solidified itself in the 1980s. Since then it has picked up steam with each passing decade. In the 2010’s this increasing momentum has helped to expand the Genre’s scope, and Disney’s Million Dollar Arm is perfect evidence of this ...
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#REVIEW: “NEIGHBORS”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Hype can make or break a film. Marketing and PR teams work tirelessly deciding just how much excitement they want to drum up for their Films. And ever since an incomplete version was screened at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March, the hype for Neighbors has just increased by the week. And for a Comedy, that could be especially intimidating.
But this is one of those times where you should believe the hype.
Mac (Seth Rogen) and Kelly (Rose ...
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#REVIEW: “LOCKE”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
I went with my gut and skipped the previews going into Locke. Tom Hardy plays the Titular Character Ivan Locke, a dedicated Construction Manager and all-around family man. On the evening before the biggest moment of his career, he gets a phone call that changes everything.
While it may not sound like much, what follows is a rather intriguing and downright compelling 85-minutes of cinematic creativity. The entire movie takes place inside Ivan’s ...
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#REVIEW: “BIOPHILIA” (TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL EXCLUSIVE)
Review by Jonathan Godfrey for Mr. Will Wong
With the One World Trade Center nearly complete TriBeCa is again the artistic haven it was in the 90’s. There is no greater evidence of this than the Neighbourhood’s 12th annual Film Festival that wrapped this past Sunday.
Though focused on narrative Films and Documentary features an Icelandic Girl nevertheless entered her cinematic concert into the contest. Björk’s Biophilia Live follows in the footsteps of a series she began twenty years ...
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