#REVIEW: “DETROIT”
She time and again has riveted us with an outstanding body of work which includes Black Hawk Down, The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty. Academy Award-winning Director Kathryn Bigelow is back and just as impactful as ever on her latest effort, DETROIT. The Film gives us a look at what took place at the Algiers Motel incident during the racially-charged Detroit 12th Street Riots in 1967. Three black men were killed and nine people were brutally beaten, including seven black men and two white ...
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#REVIEW: “THE DARK TOWER”
Review by Jonathan Godfrey for Mr. Will Wong
Stephen King put pen to paper in 1970, and wouldn’t complete his first Dark Tower Novel until 1982. Seven books would follow over the next 30 years, as well as a series of comics that further fleshed out the times and trials of Gunslinger Roland Deschain. Bringing us to today, and the release of the aptly- titled Feature Film, The Dark Tower.
After ten years of production, director Nikolej Arcel was finally able to lift the ...
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#REVIEW: “LADY MACBETH”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
Great feminist heroes can also be the villains of their own stories. Based on a book by Russian novelist Nikolai Leskov, Lady Macbeth is not the Shakespearean tale of a woman gone mad but a shockingly modern tale of a woman willing to do anything to stay in control of her own life.
Lady Katherine was wed, she is reminded by her husband Alexander (Paul Hilton), for a piece of land he wanted even less than he wanted her. Her father-in-law (Christopher ...
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#REVIEW: “ATOMIC BLONDE”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
In a year that has already boasted several great Action Movies, Atomic Blonde leads with its best stiletto forward. Charlize Theron has proven her mettle as a dramatic actress and seems to have spent 2017 trying to show the world she can kick butt with the boys. Unafraid to take a hit or throw a punch, Theron is the perfect heroine for this mid-summer blockbuster.
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 both East and West Germany were in a state of chaos. ...
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#REVIEW: “VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS”
Visionary Luc Besson worked with many great artists on groundbreaking The Fifth Element, including Jean Claude Mézières. Mézières is best known for his work on the Comic Book “Valérian.” Fast-forward twenty years. Besson has a studio (Europacorp), a Film Complex (Cité du Cinéma), and the means to extend his fantastical filmmaking even further. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is the culmination of his genius.
Its story takes place in the distant future, and centers on a ...
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#REVIEW: “DUNKIRK”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
There is a long-standing urban legend that audience members fled their seats in terror during the premiere of the Lumière Brothers’ The Arrival of a Train. The train in the revolutionary 1896 Short Film came right at the screen and the audience feared it would run them over. The rumour has since been debunked, and our understanding of Film as a medium has grown substantially since. But 121-years later, I watched people’s fearful reactions watching ...
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#REVIEW: “A GHOST STORY”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
I am officially declaring the summer of 2017 to be the Season of Awesome Indies. Adding to a year already rife with exceptional independent films comes Writer/Director David Lowery’s A Ghost Story: a Movie whose main character looks like my 10-year-old nephew’s last Halloween costume. The idea that a ghost’s corporeal form is a sheet with two holes for eyes seems almost too juvenile for a Movie as complex as A Ghost Story, but rest assured this ...
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#REVIEW: “GIRLS TRIP”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
Some movies should be watched with a group of friends in a theatre full of people laughing uproariously. Girls Trip is one of those movies. Packed with more celebrity cameos than an entire season of SNL, this hilarious Movie from Director Malcolm D. Lee is one of the most delightful comedies of the year.
Ryan (Regina Hall), a successful author and motivational speaker, has been selected as the keynote speaker for Essence Fest in New Orleans and is ...
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#REVIEW: “WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
As War for the Planet of the Apes opens, Caesar (Andy Serkis) is still showing mercy to those who wish to eradicate his people. This mercy naturally comes back to bite him when the Colonel (Woody Harrelson) and his troops infiltrate the Apes’ village and kill Caesar’s wife and son. The Ape leader quickly trades his pacifist beliefs for vengeance upon the humans and, accompanied by his closest advisors, looks to end the war Koba began in Dawn.
At ...
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#REVIEW: “SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
After fighting alongside The Avengers, Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Tom Holland) has returned to high school and is waiting on his next mission from Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.). When Peter discovers Adrian Toomes/The Vulture’s (Michael Keaton) operation selling illegally-modified alien weaponry, he begins to investigate – but may be in way over his head.
Spider-Man: Homecoming’s script is credited to six screenwriters (Director Jon Watts ...
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