#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 ... Read more

#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 ... Read more

#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 ... Read more

#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 ... Read more

#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 ... Read more

#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 ... Read more

#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 ... Read more

#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 ... Read more

#REVIEW: “THE UPRISING”

Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong It's 1381, the plague's taken half the English population, and Andrew Garfield plows mud every day before he visits the graves of his wife and children. Meanwhile, King Richard II can't be bothered to leave his room (he's having bad dreams like everyone else) and the kingdom is almost bankrupt, so it's time to impose more taxes on the peasants! When Garfield is commanded to pay the 'death tax' for losing his family years ago, he rightfully snaps, ... Read more

#REVIEW: “ONSLAUGHT”

Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong A hardened war vet with a sizeable gun collection in charge of a small trailer park (Adria Arjona, simmering inside and out) gets some unexpected parenting time with her little girl (adorable newcomer Blake Kennedy). Meanwhile, a mad scientist (Dan Stevens, quietly unhinged) experiments on glowy-eyed former servicemen--borderline zombies--in an attempt to create the perfect super soldier. When his experiment goes awry, the soldiers converge ... Read more