#REVIEW: “KRAVEN THE HUNTER”

Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong All things, whether good or bad, must come to an end and with J.C. Chandor’s Kraven the Hunter (that was postponed for roughly 18 months) the Sony Pictures-MCU experiment is finally over, and somehow single individuals are in dismay. What started this year with a meme about a mother in the Amazon, slowly became the perfect allegory for all of the Sony Pictures-Marvel movies – a web is something a spider creates to trap its prey, but without a ... Read more

#REVIEW: “THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE WAR OF ROHIRRIM”

Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong Long before The Two Towers, there was another battle of good and evil waged at Helm's Deep. Cut to princess Hera (Gaia Wise) at the top of a hill, gazing out at the majesty of Middle-earth. Our anonymous narrator notes that after her time, no one sang songs of her. A compelling riddle: if no one felt like writing a song about her, why make a feature film? Did she change her name? Was her story cut short? The answer, I'm afraid, is nowhere near ... Read more

#REVIEW: “A COMPLETE UNKNOWN”

By Mr. Will Wong James Mangold returns with A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, a companion piece in ways, to his Oscar-winning WALK THE LINE. The Bob Dylan Biopic is a worthy successor to that, if not an even greater cinematic feat. This Biopic introduces us to a young Robert Zimmerman also known as Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet), arriving in New York City from the midwest with the hopes of meeting his idol Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy) in the hospital. And he does that, impressing him with his raw talent, ... Read more

#REVIEW: “Y2K”

Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong At the tail-end of 1999, many wondered if there would be some kind of worldwide technological meltdown when we crossed over into the year 2000 because computer clocks weren't programmed to represent years using four digits. Maybe the year "00" would force laptops to turn into bricks and airplanes to fall from the sky. Of course, nothing happened. Kyle Mooney's Y2K imagines a world where those fears were completely justified and then some. At ... Read more

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#REVIEW: “MARIA”

Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong After Jackie and Spencer, two of the most beautiful and empathic biopics of the last ten years, Pablo Larraín turns his camera on Maria Callas, in–you guessed it–MARIA. Set during her final days as she struggles to regain her legendary voice, Maria encapsulates a somber ending to a magnificent life. Callas skips back and forth through time, suffusing even her fondest memories with a shadowy grief. Maria is as much Pablo ... Read more

#REVIEW: “WICKED PART I”

Review by Mr. Will Wong Truly a landmark moment!  Director Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians) had the monumental task of bringing iconic musical Wicked to the big screen and is it ever a triumph! Full disclosure, I have never seen the stage production, so I came into the Film completely blind. And it didn’t even matter one bit. This Wicked Witch of the West origins story centers around Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), a social outcast who likewise is rejected by her own family because of her ... Read more

#REVIEW: “SEPTEMBER 5”

By Mr. Will Wong Based on true events surrounding the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis, Swiss Director Tim Fehlbaum's SEPTEMBER 5 is riveting storytelling, which surely will be at the forefront of awards season discussion. The Drama centers on the ABC Sports broadcast team who were assigned to cover the Olympics, only to find themselves very quickly pivoting in what would become groundbreaking first-of-its-kind live news coverage of terrorism.  Led by Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard) and ... Read more

#REVIEW: “RED ONE”

Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong 'Tis the holiday season and we’re getting into the Christmas spirit and joy with Director Jake Kasdan’s newest feature, Red One. There is *a lot* happening throughout the Movie, and a lot of that is forgivable, but it is important to note this isn't your typical Christmas movie -for one, there is an abundance of swearing, so discretion should be used. Despite some overproduced CGI, Red One still manages to be enjoyable even if is a bumpy road ... Read more

#REVIEW: “GLADIATOR II”

Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong How amazing is it that well into his 80s, Sir Ridley Scott still is delivering some of his best work? Gladiator II proves well worth the 26-year wait for a sequel.  The CGI may be a little messy and over the top, but the performances, acting, Script and direction all come together masterfully, to create an entertaining bounty of excellence. The Film now focuses on Lucius (Paul Mescal) some twenty years after the first Gladiator film, as Rome has ... Read more