#REVIEW: “RICKI AND THE FLASH”
Fans of Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married will find plenty to like about his latest, Ricki and The Flash. Penned by Academy Award Winner Diablo Cody (Juno), the Film in may ways acts as a companion piece to the other, both centering ultimately on a wedding. At the heart of the Story is Linda (Meryl Streep), who is estranged from her three children after divorcing husband Pete (Kevin Kline), beginning a new life in L.A.
Certainly not short on talent, Linda's Rock Star dreams never ...
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#REVIEW: “SHAUN THE SHEEP”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Already released in Europe this past winter, Shaun the Sheep Movie finally lands in Canada this week with plenty of heart and charm to spare.
Shaun, the titular Sheep, spends his days at Moss Bottom Farm with the rest of his Flock, a Sheepdog named Bitzer and the Farmer that watches over them all. Shaun becomes tired of his every day routine, and decides to shake it up one day with the Flock’s help. But when a mix-up leads to the Farmer losing his ...
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#REVIEW: “MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION”
The fifth installment of the wildly-popular Mission Impossible Franchise is every bit a thrill ride and with a well-reputed penchant for bringing the excitement every time, the lingering question is just how big a rush Rogue Nation delivers.
This latest chapter directed by Edge of Tomorrow Helmer Christopher McQuarrie, has Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) in England with trusty sidekick Benji (Simon Pegg), squaring-off against The Syndicate, a group of ex-Operatives. At the center of it all is ...
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#REVIEW: “VACATION”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
From Writers/Directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein comes the newest installment in a beloved Hollywood institution. After meeting him 30 years ago, a grown-up Rusty Griswold (Ed Helms) decides to takes his own family on the vacation that his dad Clark (Chevy Chase) took him on at famed Walley World.
Rusty and his family go on the same vacation every single year to a cabin and realized that he is the only one who actually enjoys ...
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#REVIEW: “PAPER TOWNS”
Review by Jonathan Godfrey for Mr. Will Wong
Everything has changed and nothing has changed. One of the oldest stories ever written is about a boy who goes off to become a man. Nearly three thousand years later we are still charmed by it. This is the beauty of narrative, it can be threaded through time, time and time again.
Paper Towns is the Story about a boy who goes off to become a man. His name is Quentin “Q” Jacobson, and he is played by Nat Wolff. Quentin acts as Narrator and ...
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#REVIEW: “PIXELS”
Let's be transparent. Adam Sandler's recent body of work has left much to be desired, but beneath the misfires remains an inkling of hope that he could regain that fine form that had us at his comedic mercy in a stretch that began in the '90s. People still love Adam Sandler and if a multi-film deal with a certain internet streaming service isn't proof enough, let Pixels be your evidence that Sandler perhaps has been forgiven for the universal panning of That's My Boy and Jack & Jill. Oh ...
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#REVIEW: “SOUTHPAW”
Training Day Director Antoine Fuqua has managed to make a Film about Boxing which somehow speaks eloquently both to Women and Men. Make no mistake though - this isn't exclusively about Sport, it's actually much, much more than that.
SOUTHPAW has an incredible amount of buzz surrounding it and for a start Fuqua got the casting right. Although the numbers don't reflect it, Jake Gyllenhaal appears to have hit a sweet spot in his career which has seen a remarkable depth and quality ...
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#REVIEW: “TRAINWRECK”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
In 2005, Judd Apatow unspooled The 40-Year-Old Virgin and instantly became the go-to Comedy Mastermind. And while his Cast has had unparalleled success since, Apatow’s features as a Writer/Director have not. So for his fifth Feature, he decided to stay behind the camera and let someone else write the Story. And when that someone happens to be Comedic Goddess Amy Schumer, all bets are off.
Amy (Schumer) is a writer for a low-brow men’s magazine, ...
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#REVIEW: “ANT-MAN”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Last May when Edgar Wright announced he no longer would be directing the hotly-anticipated adaptation of Ant-Man, a cloud of uncertainty clouded the Project... despite production having not yet begun. However Peyton Reed manages to do what most people thought was impossible, and that is making this Film another successful entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As far as first installments go, Ant-Man is right up there with what started the Marvel ...
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#REVIEW: “SELF/LESS”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
From Director Tarsem Singh (The Fall, Mirror Mirror) comes his seventh Film Self/Less, which begins in promising form, but unfortunately finishes a bit too predictably. Screenwriting Brothers Alex & David Pastor have attempted to bring us an interesting supernatural Story, but it too often gets bogged-down in discussion of morality that make this intriguing body-swapping Thriller less compelling.
Self/Less focuses on Damian (Ben Kingsley) ...
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