#REVIEW: “DOCTOR STRANGE”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
After a car accident leaves his hands with permanent nerve damage, hotshot neurosurgeon Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) travels across the world in search of a way to get his life back. Instead, he discovers The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) and the hidden world of mystic arts and alternate dimensions.
The comparisons between Doctor Strange and Inception are apt as both Films spend an immense chunk of their running time devoted to explaining ...
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#REVIEW: “TROLLS”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
From the screenwriting duo behind the Kung Fu Panda Trilogy (Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger) comes a new Movie about the toys that took the nation by storm in the 1960s and 1990s. Trolls stars a lovable cast with some really catchy tunes. When a Movie brings such sheer and utter joy as well as suspense to its young audience, does it really matter what the bigger 'kids' think? Trolls is a fun, energetic, upbeat experience that will have that child ...
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#REVIEW: “HACKSAW RIDGE”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
The topic of war consumes majority of the news all over the world. The subject is never a positive one and has a major impact not only on the people directly involved, but on the world as a whole. It seems as if war is something that will never end because it’s complete chaos. People are seeking refuge, being taken from their families, and soldiers and innocent civilians are dying everyday. So in the world we live in today, a Film with a positive ...
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#REVIEW: “INFERNO”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
Franchises are popular with moviegoers because it they know they won’t be let down. The predictability and recognizable characters are like a comfortable pair of old slippers that promise familiarity in a multiplex full of jump scares, subtitles, and violent Action Flicks. Retreading familiar ground for the third installment in his successful Robert Langdon Trilogy, Ron Howard’s Inferno is sure to draw fans of the Dan Brown-penned Series.
Based ...
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#REVIEW: “MOONLIGHT”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Moonlight, after garnering great critical reception in its Festival run, now is ready to embraced by the Filmgoing public. It is a depiction of what its like to be a human, regardless of race and gender.
The Film follows a man through three stages in his life. The first beginning when he’s a child, the second as a teenager, and the third as the man he’s become. It’s a story about the human connection and the search everyone has with trying to ...
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#REVIEW: “CHRISTINE”
On July 15, 1974, Sarasota news reporter Christine Chubbuck commit suicide live on-air. Forty two years later, people still are asking "why?".
After a successful run on the Festival circuit, Antonio Campos' Christine gets a theatrical release with those of us in Toronto getting a chance to see it first post-TIFF '16, where it received universal acclaim for Rebecca Hall's mesmerizing performance in its titular role. The darkly-humorous Drama chronicles Chubbuck's final days before her death, ...
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#REVIEW: “JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
Few action stars guarantee box office revenue as consistently as Tom Cruise. His familiar presence on screen is a balm to audiences who believe that action and smart stories should go hand-in-hand. If in recent years, he seems reluctant to encourage fans to see past his million watt smile to the character he is portraying it is simply because wants to give the world what it wants: Tom Cruise the Commodity. With big opening weekends and even bigger ...
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#REVIEW: “OUJIA: ORIGIN OF EVIL”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
This is a rare Horror Film that works because it cares about its characters and story more than only scaring the audience. Ouija: Origin of Evil will also shock the Horror crowd being a Sequel that is actually better than its predecessor.
A widowed mother and her two daughters, in 1965 Los Angeles, add a Ouija board to bolster their séance scam business. When the youngest daughter uses it to contact her late father, she ends up inviting evil into ...
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#REVIEW: “KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
When the world is a frightening place, one of the greatest cures is comedy. Zach Galifianakis, Isla Fisher, Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot deliver exactly that in Keeping Up with the Joneses, which is downright funny.
The Movie starts with married couple Karen and Jeff Gaffney (Isla Fisher and Zach Galifianakis) who live in suburbia and discover they're getting new neighbours. Things start to get suspicious for the couple when they realize the new ...
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#REVIEW: “THE ACCOUNTANT”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
This weekend I want you to go see a movie starring Ben Affleck as a brilliant, rich martial arts expert with a strong moral code. His character is handy with any weapon from a Gatling gun to a leather belt, has a secret identity, and despite always saying the wrong thing women still desire him. Before you don your cowl and utility belt I should probably mention that Affleck plays an autistic accountant in this Gavin O’Connor directed Film and not the ...
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