#REVIEW: “THE LADY IN THE VAN”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
Prior to its world premiere at TIFF last year, Director Nicholas Hytner’s Film The Lady in the Van had been a Book, a Play, and even a Radio Play on the BBC. The Film’s roots are more than evident in Alan Bennett’s beautiful script. This of course, is no surprise since in addition to writing the Book he also lived the story so deftly brought to life by Alex Jennings (Bennett) and Maggie Smith (Miss Shepherd).
The Lady in the Van tells the ...
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#REVIEW: “THE FINEST HOURS”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
During a horrific winter storm in 1952, oil tanker SS Pendleton is cut in half along the coast of Cape Cod by heavy winds and waves, killing the captain and a number of crew members. With the remaining crew clinging to hope on half a ship, the local branch of the Coast Guard send a few men in on a suicide mission to save them. And if that sounds at all far-fetched, it really should not – it is actually based on a true story.
There is not much to ...
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#REVIEW: “FIFTY SHADES OF BLACK”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Director Michael Tiddes and comedic star Marlon Wayans have teamed together in recent years on horror spoofs A Haunted House and its Sequel. They return for a third time with the regretfully-unfunny parody of BDSM Romance, Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades of Black. Screenwriters Rick Alvarez and Marlon Wayans are tasked with carrying the weight of crafting some heavy-hitting jokes, however the Film alas gives us only a few memorable ...
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#REVIEW: “KUNG FU PANDA 3”
Things are peaceful for our beloved kung fu-fighting panda Po (Jack Black) until one day his estranged father Li (Bryan Cranston) shows up and turns his world upside down. Determined to bring him back to a secret land of pandas to reconnect Po with his heritage, his adopted dumpling-making goose father suddenly becomes threatened. Meanwhile, being named successor dragon warrior to Oogway (Randall Kim), who was banished to a life in the spiritual realm by Kai (J.K. Simmons), Po learns ...
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#REVIEW: “THE 5TH WAVE”
Review by Jonathan Godfrey for Mr. Will Wong
In today’s world, Dystopic Sci-Fi has become opium of the masses. From teen fiction to their cinematic cousins there’s a lot of people trying to cash in on the formula. The 5th Wave is the latest concoction. The books began in 2013, and the Trilogy is set to wrap-up later this year. The Film rights were purchased in 2014, and were adapted to the screen by Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich).
Starring Chloë Grace Moretz, the story is as follows: ...
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#REVIEW: “DIRTY GRANDPA”
In a way, DIRTY GRANDPA from Director/Writer Dan Mazer (Borat, Bruno) is a bit of a throwback to the quintessential raunchy Comedy. It is offensive, outright lewd actually and a double-fisted bird flip to the political correctness of the world we live in today. But if you can forgive this and realize how through its ridiculousness that it is all in good fun, you'll be just fine.
Jason (Zac Efron), a handsome and promising young lawyer, is about to get married in a week to beautiful ...
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#REVIEW: “SVENGALI”
Three years almost after its initial release in the UK, Music-Dramedy SVENGALI gets a release domestically, even if in Home Entertainment format. The Film written, directed by and starring Welshman Jonny Owen centers on Dixie (Owen), a naïve Postman who leaves his life behind in South Wales, taking his girlfriend Shell (Vicky McClure) to London, as he decides one day to pursue his dream of becoming Music's next Svengali.
He comes across on the internet, a promising quartet The Premature ...
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#REVIEW: “13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLIDERS OF BENGHAZI”
Review by Jonathan Godfrey for Mr. Will Wong
The 2012 Battle of Benghazi was an absolute Charlie Foxtrot. In other words, a mess. On September 11th, 2012, a band of armed Libyans attacked what was then a secret American outpost. From that day forward the catastrophe that cost lives for both sides has been as misunderstood as it’s been paraded about as an example of injustice.
In 2014, Mitchell Zuckoff released his Book “13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi.” ...
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#REVIEW: “RIDE ALONG 2”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Director Tim Story returns to the screen with the duo of Ice Cube and Kevin Hart in the sequel to the surprisingly hilarious Ride Along, Ride Along 2. The first Movie introduced us to the future brother-in laws as the Sequel follows what seems to be a short amount of time from the first installment however with the same general story this time around and lackluster jokes Ride Along 2 is far from a joy ride, but more of a ride soon to be ...
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#REVIEW: “ANOMALISA”
Review by Jonathan Godfrey for Mr. Will Wong
Charlie Kaufman is Cinema’s snow leopard. Like the endangered animal, his beauty is rarely seen. He’s written for Spike Jones (i.e. Being John Malkovich) and Michel Gondry (i.e. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). He made his directorial debut in 2008 with Synecdoche, New York. All of his work has been artistic in its ability to provoke people, and poetic in its expressions of love. His latest Film, Anomalisa, shares these beloved ...
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