#REVIEW: “THE KING’S MAN”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
As the war continues in the early 1900s, Pacifist Orlando Oxford (Ralph Fiennes) tries to keep his determined son Conrad (Harris Dickinson) from joining. Unknown to Conrad, Oxford is working with a secret club. This club has knowledge about a group of criminal masterminds who plan to destroy humanity. Oxford brings Conrad into his club and the group sets out to stop the tyrants.
Writer-Director Matthew Vaughn has made a prequel that does justice to ...
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#REVIEW: “RED ROCKET”
By Mr. Will Wong
Sean Baker who brought us mesmerizing The Florida Project back in 2017, is back with the even better Red Rocket. While Texas City is filled with small ambitions, this is some grand storytelling, carried by a larger-than-life performance by Simon Rex.
The story centers on a homeless Mikey (Rex) who returns to town, battered and bruised, hoping his estranged wife Lexi (Bree Elrod) will take him back in to live at her mother's house. It doesn't take long for us to understand the ...
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#REVIEW: “NIGHTMARE ALLEY”
Review by George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
Four years after winning an Oscar for the Toronto-helmed “The Shape of Water”, Auteur Guillermo del Toro is back on the big screen with NIGHTMARE ALLEY. Long since a dream project of his, del Toro pays homage to the classic Hollywood Film Noir genre from the '40s and '50s where the men were hardboiled and weary (think Humphrey Bogart in “The Maltese Falcon” or William Holden in “Sunset Boulevard") and the dames were shrewd and manipulative ...
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#REVIEW: “SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Opening exactly where we left off, Spider-Man’s (Tom Holland) identity as Peter Parker has been revealed to the world. With his future irrevocably destroyed and his closest family and friends caught in the fallout, Peter seeks out the help of Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch). Strange offers to perform a spell that will have everyone forgetting who the web slinger is, but Peter messes it up – and now familiar villains from other universes have ...
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#REVIEW: “THE TENDER BAR”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Adapted from J.R. Maguire’s Memoir, The Tender Bar takes a look at a son searching for a father figure. In 1972, J.R (played by Daniel Ranieri as a child and Tye Sheridan as a young adult) and his mother Dorothy (Lily Rabe) move into her father’s house in Long Island. The nine-year-old spends his days searching the radio for the voice of his absent father, who's a DJ. His uncle Charlie (Ben Affleck) takes him under his wing: introduces him to the ...
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#REVIEW: “THE LOST DAUGHTER”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
College Professor Leda (Olivia Colman) goes to a seaside town in Greece for a quiet work holiday. What she gets instead is a loud family that invades her daily beach visits. However, she finds a kindred spirit among the family in young mother Nina (Dakota Johnson). As the days go on, Leda becomes more obsessed with Nina and her young daughter, forcing her to confront her unsettling past.
Director and Screenwriter Maggie Gyllenhaal does an exquisite ...
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#REVIEW: “DON’T LOOK UP”
Review by George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
Late one night and alone, astronomy graduate student Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) believes she discovered an asteroid and immediately contacts her professor, Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio), with the news, who arrives with a number of astronomy students in tow. While crunching numbers, their faces freeze in fear as they ascertain that this piece of rock (the size of Mount Everest) is hurling towards Earth and will completely destroy the ...
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#REVIEW: STEVEN SPIELBERG’S “WEST SIDE STORY”
Review by George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
Having to wait a full year to see the Steven Spielberg remake of the classic WEST SIDE STORY has been frustrating to say the least. I was salivating to see triple Oscar-winning Director not only tackle his first time helming a Movie Musical but also see how he and Screenwriter Tony Kushner (Angels in America, Lincoln) would address some of the racial insensitivities portrayed in the original version. And, on a purely selfish note, as a rabid Stephen ...
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#REVIEW: “SINGLE ALL THE WAY”
By Mr. Will Wong
'Tis the season for a festive little Rom-Com! We love Michael Urie (Ugly Betty) and are thrilled he lands the starring role as Peter in SINGLE ALL THE WAY from Director Michael Mayer.
Trying to avoid the constant pressure from his family because of his being single, Peter decides to bring his best friend Nick (Philemon Chambers), posing as his lover, home to silence them. This doesn't stop them from trying to set him up! Though Peter strikes a connection with James (Luke ...
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#REVIEW: “THE HAND OF GOD”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
The Hand of God is Filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino’s most personal film to date and is a visually stunning love letter to his native Naples. The Film takes place in 1980s Naples, Italy, and follows Fabietto (Filippo Scotti) and his delightful family. Fabietto’s life forever changes when he is inadvertently saved from a heartbreaking accident by soccer legend Diego Maradona.
What's most exciting about The Hand of God is the constant tug between ...
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