#REVIEW: “SPIRAL”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Detective Zeke Banks (Chris Rock) is a good cop who ratted out his partner and has never been forgiven by his peers. He takes lead on a grisly subway murder alongside his rookie partner Detective William Schenk (Max Minghella) and immediately starts drawing similarities to the Jigsaw killer. When packages start arriving at the police station to taunt Zeke, it becomes clear they are dealing with a copycat.
SPIRAL, or SPIRAL: FROM THE BOOK OF SAW as it ...
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#REVIEW: “CRUELLA”
By Mr. Will Wong
One Hundred and One Dalmatians' Cruella de Vil has become synonymous with greed, evil and vanity. Director Craig Gillespie gets the tall order of giving us an origins story for one of Disney's most iconic villains of all time, and does it with great style and flare in Disney's CRUELLA. If anyone knows how to deliver a story about a misunderstood hero, it would be this Filmmaker responsible for films like Lars and the Real Girl and I, Tonya.
CRUELLA traces the journey of a ...
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#REVIEW: “WRATH OF MAN”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Patrick Hill, or H for short (Jason Statham), has just landed a job at armored cash truck company Fortico Security. He is the strong, silent type, and his co-workers do not know what to make of him. When he dispatches an entire group of thieves and kidnappers with relative ease, the company calls him a hero. But there is a lot more to H than he is letting on.
Much like a major chunk of Co-Writer/Director Guy Ritchie’s oeuvre, WRATH OF MAN is a ...
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#REVIEW: “RIDERS OF JUSTICE”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Markus (Mads Mikkelsen) has to return home suddenly from a tour in Afghanistan after his wife dies in a freak train accident. He does not get along with his daughter Mathilde (Andrea Heick Gadeberg) and spends his nights drinking and smoking. That is, until Mathematician and train passenger Otto (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) shows up with two friends claiming the accident may have actually been a preplanned means of assassinating a government witness.
When I ...
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#REVIEW: “IN THE HEIGHTS”
By Mr. Will Wong
Based on Lin-Manuel Miranda's 2007 Tony Award-winning Musical of the same name, comes Jon M. Chu's big screen adaptation of IN THE HEIGHTS. Set in Washington Heights, the story embodies the beauty, struggles and hopes of living in a predominantly Latinx neighbourhood, known also as "Little Dominican Republic".
The story is set around bodega owner Usnavi (Anthony Ramos), young, hard-working and likable. He had lost his parents and is hoping to re-connect with his roots in ...
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#REVIEW: “PROFILE”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
There are very few movies that can leave you shaken for weeks, even months. Profile is that movie. It is thought-provoking while shedding light on how even the strongest people can get sucked into a dark web, subjected to the terrors that come with it. Timur Bekmambetov directs and writes with Britt Poulton and Olga Kharina, bringing to life this incredibly harrowing story.
Amy (Valene Kane) is a reporter for a British paper as she goes undercover ...
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#REVIEW: “THE KILLING OF TWO LOVERS”
Review by Mr. Will Wong
After premiering last year at Sundance to much acclaim, we now get a chance to witness this compelling look at standards of masculinity and what happens when people fall out of love, while still trying to keep their family intact.
Directed, written and produced by Robert Machoian, THE KILLING OF TWO LOVERS centers on David (Clayne Crawford) who in a last ditch attempt to save his marriage and family, agrees to an open-relationship with wife Nikki (Sepideh Moafi). ...
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#REVIEW: “MORTAL KOMBAT”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
MMA Fighter Cole Young (Lewis Tan) is the kind of fighter who takes any match if money involved. When a mysterious assassin targets him, Cole escapes and finds himself thrust into a world of warriors, fighters and adversaries all training to compete in a tournament called Mortal Kombat.
With a movie like MORTAL KOMBAT, you immediately lower your expectations. You are not going to be watching an Oscar-worthy globetrotting epic filled with nuanced ...
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#REVIEW: “CHAOS WALKING”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
In the distant future, humans have looked to colonize on new planets and the all-male colony living in the New World have been afflicted with something referred to as ‘The Noise’ which manifests one’s thoughts for everyone to see and hear. Todd (Tom Holland) yearns to both control his noise and to impress the local mayor David (Mads MIkkelsen). When a spaceship crash-lands near his farm and the lone survivor is a young woman named Viola (Daisy ...
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#REVIEW: “BROTHERS BY BLOOD”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Brothers by Blood sadly doesn’t deliver the punch it promises even with its talented Cast. While the Movie may have you believe Brothers by Blood is a gritty Crime-Drama in the underbelly of the Philadelphia mob, it is more about a pair of cousins trying to figure out how to get their lives and gang back together from a rival family gang. However, one cousin is a hot head who cannot be trusted and the other is just trying to save the family.
The ...
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