#REVIEW: “STARDUST”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
It is 1971 and David Bowie (Johnny Flynn) is traveling to the United States for the first time. He is a virtual unknown and hoping to gain some traction despite his latest record flopping. It is on this journey that Bowie will be inspired to become Ziggy Stardust.
While I admire Co-Writer/Director Gabriel Range boldly opening Stardust with the rather innocuous phrase “What follows is [mostly] fiction” (alongside an all-too brief homage to 2001: A ...
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#REVIEW: “THE CROODS: A NEW AGE”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
The Croods, led by patriarch Grug (Nicolas Cage), are searching for food and a new home. They happen upon both when they come across a beautiful area with walls on each side. They also discover another family living there: the Bettermans, who more than live up to their family name. As the two families squabble and feud, they must learn to come together if they hope to survive.
Much like the original film, The Croods: A New Age feels inconsequential ...
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#REVIEW: “VANGUARD”
By Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
2020 has been a whirlwind rough year all around, and sometimes it is nice just to unwind, relax, and watch something absolutely unhinged and extensively fun, Vanguard is exactly that. Vanguard pairs Director Stanley Tong back with legendary Jackie Chan (previous collaborations include Super Cop and Rumble in the Bronx) for an absolute exhilarating Action-Comedy that more than delivers. The amount of pure uninterrupted blissful joy that Vanguard packs into ...
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#REVIEW: “THE DONUT KING”
Review by George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
To this day, I still have vivid memories, as a young boy in Montreal, of being taken to RBI Richstone Bakery for a chocolate glazed doughnut while my mother waited to have the live chicken she picked out for dinner to be slaughtered and plucked at the open air market across the street. It instilled in me my love of doughnuts and I do take credit for buying a few of the 500,136,000 doughnuts Tim Hortons sold in Canada in 2011.Hence, I salivated over the ...
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#REVIEW: “THE STAR WARS LEGO HOLIDAY SPECIAL”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Thanks to Director Ken Cunningham and Writer David Shayne, the Holidays have arrived early this year, and audiences finally get a worthy Star Wars Special in the form of LEGO! The best part of The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special is that the 45-minute Feature is non-canonical, so anything and everything can happen and it certainly packs a fun Holiday punch. While the Voice Cast (for the most part) here is played by talent who did not originate their ...
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#REVIEW: “FREAKY”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
After brutally murdering a group of high schoolers and putting the entire town on alert, the Blissfield Butcher (Vince Vaughn) sets his sights on high schooler Millie (Kathryn Newton). She gets away after he stabs her, but on Friday the 13th, the pair wake up to find they have swapped bodies. Now Millie, in the Butcher’s body, must confront and stop his murderous rampage, in her body no less, within 24 hours – or their body swap will remain ...
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#REVIEW: “INSIDE PIXAR”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
New Disney+ series Inside Pixar focuses on different aspects of bringing to life a Pixar movie from all different aspects with a focus on upcoming Disney+ exclusive Soul. The first two episodes run at approximately ten minutes each, centering on Kemp Powers who co-wrote and co-directed Soul as well as Deanna Marsigliese who talks about creating characters and animations for Pixar as a whole and not solely Soul.
In our first episode, Kemp Powers ...
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#REVIEW: “COME AWAY”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Brenda Chapman is no stranger to the whimsical world of imagination, and with her in the Director's chair for her third Feature, Come Away. We get to see the characters from beloved stories told in a new way and how they became the titular characters we know and cherish today. This is Marissa Kate Goodhill's first time writing a Feature and it is a strong effort. Goodhill's Script and Chapman’s direction, plus some engaging performances from this ...
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#REVIEW: “LOVE, ANTOSHA”
By Mr. Will Wong
Editor-turned-Director Garrett Price makes his Feature debut with LOVE, ANTOSHA, which premiered to raves at Sundance. The Documentary centers on Actor Anton Yelchin, who passed away tragically at the age of 2017 in 2016. Yelchin was known best for his work in films like Charlie Bartlett, Smurfs, three Star Trek films as Pavel Chekov, Fright Night and the highly-acclaimed Like Crazy.
Price gives us intimate access to Yelchin's path to becoming one of Hollywood's ...
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#REVIEW: “HILLBILLY ELEGY”
By Mr. Will Wong
Based on J.D. Vance's Memoir of the same name, Ron Howard's latest effort HILLBILLY ELEGY brings together a phenomenal Ensemble Cast to tell the Author/Capitalist's inspiring story of overcoming the odds to thrive in life despite a troubled past.
The Film centers on Vance played both by Gabriel Basso (adult) and Owen Asztalos (young), whom is taken-in by his grandmother (Glenn Close) after his mother Bev (Amy Adams) is unfit to care for him. Bev is battling substance ...
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