#REVIEW: “SPOILER ALERT”
Review by George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
I despise movie spoilers almost as much as I dislike movie trailers, which I only watch after I’ve seen the film. Whether you go to the Cinema to see a movie based on a title or a Performer or a Director, your viewing experience should engulf you with surprises and plot twists, rather than have you sit in your seat waiting to hear that punchline to a joke you saw in the trailer or know in advance that a main character in the movie dies due to a ...
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#REVIEW: “WHITE NOISE”
Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong
An 'airborne toxic event' lurches into the lives of an unsuspecting family in White Noise, an adaptation of the Don DeLillo Novel and Noah Baumbach's most expensive movie yet--likely ever!
Adam Driver is Jack, a university professor and academic to the core of his being, but he's not alone! White Noise poses the question 'what if everyone in the world--including André 3000--was an insatiable academic?' with hilarious results. Baumbach is not at ...
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#REVIEW: “BONES AND ALL”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Bones and All is a delicious, satisfying feast.
Based on the Novel of the same name by Camille DeAngelis, the Film follows Maren (Taylor Russell) who has a peculiar craving for human flesh. She’s been raised by her single father, Frank (Andre Holland), and they’ve moved from town to town each time Maren succumbs to her craving. On Maren’s 18th Birthday, Frank abandons her. Only leaving behind a cassette tape and Maren’s birth certificate. ...
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#REVIEW: “THE MENU”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Tyler (Nicholas Hoult) is on a date with Margot (Anya Taylor-Joy). We do not know much about them initially; what we do know is they are waiting on a dock and that Tyler is such a serious foodie that he chastises Margot for smoking and potentially ruining her palate. More people begin arriving and they are quickly whisked off to Hawthorn, an exclusive posh restaurant located on its own remote island. Run by the world-renowned Chef Slowik (Ralph ...
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#REVIEW: “SHE SAID”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Director Maria Schrader’s She Said is a riveting film that documents the groundbreaking reporting by journalists Jodi Kantor (Zoe Kazan) and Megan Twohey (Carey Mulligan). Their influential reporting started a movement, helped break decades of silence surrounding sexual assault, changed constitutional laws and more.
She Said focuses on the traumatic stories from survivors of convicted predator Harvey Weinstein. Mainly on the stories that were ...
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#REVIEW: “BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS”
Review by George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
Renowned Journalist/Documentarian Silverio Gama (Daniel Gimenez Cacho) returns for a quick visit to his native Mexico with his wife and two teenaged children prior to being the recipient of a prestigious award in Los Angeles, where he has lived for fifteen years. It is a contentious return home, filled with gloom, arguments, and surreal images.
BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS arrives with baggage. First screened at the Venice and ...
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#REVIEW: “BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Moviegoers have been inundated superhero fatigue and that is not to say that there haven’t been incredible entries over the last while, because there have been, but there has been the fair share of misses also. With the newest entry in the MCU, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever has the toughest task - addressing the tragic death of its titular character and star Chadwick Boseman.
The opening of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a beautiful celebration ...
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#REVIEW: “PINOCCHIO”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Guillermo del Toro exquisitely reinvents Carlo Collodi's classic tale of the wooden marionette.
Woodcarver Geppetto’s (David Bradley) life is turned upside-down when his only son, Carlo, dies suddenly. Geppetto plants a pine cone which grows into a tree in memory of his son. One night, in drunken grief, Geppetto cuts down the tree and carves out a boy. That’s when a blue fairy named Wood Sprite (a perfectly-cast Tilda Swinton) casts a spell ...
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#REVIEW: “ARMAGEDDON TIME”
Review by George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
Acclaimed Screenwriter/Director James Gray (Ad Astra, The Yards, The Lost City of Z) returns to the big screen after a three-year absence with his most personal and assured work to date. Set in Queens, New York in 1980, ARMAGEDDON TIME is a semi-autobiographical, atmospheric Dramedy that features outstanding performances and will resonate strongly after the theatre curtain falls.
Paul Graff (played by Michael Banks Repeta with finesse and assurance ...
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#REVIEW: “BLACK ADAM”
Review by Adam Lo for Mr. Will Wong
Black Adam comes almost a decade and half after Dwayne Johnson announced interest in playing the anti-hero based on the DC Comics character. Having taken place 5,000 years ago in the fictional Middle Eastern country of Kahndaq, an ancient Egyptian slave Teth Adam (Johnson), is bestowed the almighty powers of the Ancient Gods. However, he is imprisoned for millennia by the Wizard Shazam after he misused his powers— eventually freed from his tomb, ready to ...
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