#REVIEW: “X-MEN: APOCALYPSE”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Bryan Singer is back with his fourth X-Men Film as he attempts to continue the franchise he built back in 2000 and then returned to in 2014. X-Men: Apocalypse picks up shortly after Days of Future Past in which we see our new heroes and anti-heroes facing their greatest challenge yet, Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac). From start to finish X-Men: Apocalypse is an absolute delight and a blast. Singer returns to form and gives us the third X-Men Movie we ...
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#REVIEW: “THE INTERVENTION” (INSIDE OUT FESTIVAL)
Those of you attending the Inside Out Festival are in for a real treat. The Opening Gala this year is relationship dramedy THE INTERVENTION written, acted and directed by Clea Duvall. The Film focuses on four couples who retreat at the home of troubled couple Ruby (Cobie Smulders) and Peter (Vincent Piazza). After noticing constant vicious fighting between Ruby and Peter, out of concern, their friends including Jessie (Duvall) and Sarah (Natasha Lyonne), Jack (Ben Schwartz) and Lola (Alia ...
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#REVIEW: ARIANA GRANDE – “DANGEROUS WOMAN”
I admit it, I had my doubts about Ariana Grande's longevity at first. Who'd have guessed that the girl from Nickelodeon's Victorious would go on to be a bona fide recording artist? Now onto her third album, DANGEROUS WOMAN, Grande's body of work keeps getting stronger and stronger. I'll admit it, I'm sold finally.
Following a successful formula so far which has combined ballads and slinky mid-tempo jams, this Disc not only is a cut from the same cloth as her first two discs, but a ...
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#REVIEW: “NEIGHBORS 2”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
With the extensive team of five writers, Andrew Jay Cohen, Brendan O’Brien, Nicholas Stoller, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg comes the sequel to the ridiculously entertaining Neighbors, Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising picks-up exactly where the audience expects it too, our two main characters having sex again, but actually, with the fraternity brothers living in a different space, filling the audience in with their ...
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#REVIEW: “THE NICE GUYS”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
The original Lethal Weapon starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover was released the year I was born. While this makes me feel ancient (especially with that new Fox series remake on the way this fall), it also strikes me as absolutely criminal that the Film’s writer, Shane Black, has only had middling success ever since. The once hot young talent rocked the 1990s, before blasting off again with his directorial debut Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang in 2005 – ...
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#REVIEW: “THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Directing duo Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly team-up with screenwriter Jon Vitti to bring to the big screen one of the most popular mobile games in recent memory, Angry Birds. When first announced that there was going to be an Angry Birds Movie, there was a mixed reaction because the fandom behind the birds and pigs has fizzled a bit since becoming a worldwide phenomenon and the idea behind a 90 minute Movie with a cohesive story behind it seemed ...
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#REVIEW: “MONEY MONSTER”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Lee Gates (George Clooney) is the egotistical host of Money Monster, a wildly-audacious financial news show (think Mad Money, but with more of a taste for the theatrical). As senior producer Patty Fenn (Julia Roberts) and the crew settle-in for the show, they are interrupted by a gunman named Kyle (Jack O’Connell). He takes Gates hostage on live television, forces him to wear a bomb vest and then begins demanding answers about an investment that ...
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#REVIEW: MEGHAN TRAINOR – “THANK YOU”
When you debut at the top there's nowhere else to go but down, right? Meghan Trainor replies with a defiant "nah to the ah to the no, no, no" on her impressive sophomore effort, THANK YOU. After giving us a colourful selection of Doo-Wop-Pop offerings on her debut disc TITLE in 2015, she comes back quickly with this seamless progression, which better showcases the 22-year-old Massachusetts native's maturity as both a singer and a songwriter.
The 12-track offering, with a 15-track Deluxe ...
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#REVIEW: “A BIGGER SPLASH”
After making big waves in Venice last fall, A Bigger Splash is set to do exactly as its name suggests. Provocative, daring and sexy, it is impossible not to be swept away into the tangled web that is the world of our four central characters in this re-teaming of Director Luca Guadagnino and his muse Tilda Swinton. You might’ve been mesmerized by their pairing in 2009's I Am Love? Think - just as juicy and scandalous, with a dark twist of suspense.
Rock icon Marianne (Swinton) and her ...
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#REVIEW: “THE MEDDLER”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
When Lorene Scafaria’s The Meddler was set to premiere at TIFF I joked to anyone who would listen that it was a Biopic about my mother. Months later when I finally saw the Movie in preparation for this review, I told my mother I was seeing a Movie about her. Ten minutes after the lights went down I was shaking my head and laughing because I realized that The Meddler is less about my own sanity challenged mother and more about everybody’s crazy ...
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