#REVIEW: “SNATCHED”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Emily (Amy Schumer) loses her job and boyfriend in the same day, and cannot find a friend to accompany her on a non-refundable vacation to Ecuador. After some persuading, she convinces her paranoid, overly-cautious mother Linda (Goldie Hawn) to join her. Linda is reluctant to partake in the same kind of debauchery as her daughter, but does accompany Emily on a day trip with a local young man – where the pair find themselves kidnapped and eventually ...
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#REVIEW: “THE WALL”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
In the latest feature from Amazon Studios, the psychology of war is as much a weapon as the bullets in a sniper’s gun. The Wall is a deceptively simple Movie with only one major set – a crumbling wall surrounded by junk piles and abandoned vehicles. One of the three leads has zero screen time and is recognizable only by his voice as he toys with his opponent over a two-way radio. Another is face down in the sand or off-screen for most of the Movie, ...
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#REVIEW: “BON COP BAD COP 2”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
Some movies are so Canadian you half expect to see a tiny, spinning maple leaf in the bottom corner declaring their patriotism to the world. If jokes about separatism, Céline Dion, and the rivalry between the Habs and the Leafs are your thing then you will definitely like Bon Cop, Bad Cop 2. Writer and star Patrick Huard returns as David Bouchard a tough Sûreté du Québec officer who reunites with his old buddy Martin Ward (Colm Feore) to crack a ...
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#REVIEW: “GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
The second installment also the Guardians of The Galaxy franchise is everything fans could hope for and so much more. This sequel while great on its own, certainly adds something new and exciting to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For starters, the Film itself is world-building without being blatant and always focused on the story itself.
The Film starts off with our heroes, the guardians, consisting of Star-Lord/Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), Gamora ...
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#REVIEW: “SPARK”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Aaron Woodley is at the helm of the beautifully-animated Movie Spark which is one of the Films that premiered at TAAFI last year. The Film centers around a teenage monkey named Spark (Jace Norman) as he tries to take down the evil Zhong (A.C. Peterson) after he overtakes planet Bana. Zhong was able to do this by harnessing the power of the kraken, a creature that creates blackholes and destroys planets. Spark is one of the remaining people left after ...
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#REVIEW: “COLOSSAL”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Gloria (Anne Hathaway) is struggling with alcoholism and depression. She is back in her small town, and works at a bar with her childhood friend Oscar (Jason Sudeikis). Gloria wakes up hungover one morning and discovers that a monstrous kaiju has been destroying buildings in Seoul, millions of miles away from her. She does not think much of it, but as her drunken nights continue alongside the kaiju attacks, Gloria quickly realizes the two may be ...
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#REVIEW: “UNFORGETTABLE”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
The highlight of this Film is the two lead performances.
Unforgettable follows Julia (Rosario Dawson) who recently got out of a mentally and physically-abusive relationship. Now engaged to a new man, Julia is looking forward to starting her life over. Settling into this new life means becoming a stepmother and dealing with her fiancé’s ex, Tessa (Katherine Heigl). It seems like a small feat compared to Julia’s previous relationship. But ...
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#REVIEW: “THE LOST CITY OF Z”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
James Gray delivers another incredible entry into his Filmography in The Lost City of Z (Two Lovers, We Own the Night). The Lost City of Z, based on a New York Times Article expanded into a Novel by David Grann, takes place over several years.
We follow Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) and his team co-led by Henry Costin (Robert Pattinson) throughout the Amazonian jungle in the 1920s on a discovery mission to find the ‘lost city’, an indigenous ...
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#REVIEW: “THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
I used to loathe the Fast and Furious Films, but that changed after watching Fast Five back in 2011. The Film completely rebooted the franchise, drastically reversing its focus on street racing to something closer to Ocean’s Eleven on steroids. Each subsequent entry has one-upped the previous Film in terms of ridiculous stunts and ludicrously entertaining action sequences. And The Fate of the Furious is no different. In fact – it is actually a bit ...
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#REVIEW: “PERFUME WAR”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
War can be an uncomfortable matter, but in some instances good can come from it. That is, one person's end to a journey can be someone else’s beginning. That is essentially the heartfelt and beautiful message that is told in the Documentary Perfume War. The Movie focuses on two subjects; Trevor Greene a solider for the Canadian army that was deployed to Afghanistan in 2005 and Barb Stegemann who is Trevor’s best friend trying to continue his ...
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