#REVIEW: “DUMBO”
Review by Mr. Will Wong
Disney's live-action version of DUMBO flies high and low.
Taking inspiration from Disney's 1941 animated classic of the same name, DUMBO is a live-action retelling of the timeless tale of a baby elephant who overcame the odds to save his owner's (Danny Devito) floundering circus, giving it new life when it is discovered that he can fly. Dumbo, as he is named unfortunately, is taken under the guidance of Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell), an amputee war veteran and his two ...
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#REVIEW: “US” REVIEW
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Moments after opening my presents this past Christmas, I grabbed my phone and watched the gift Jordan Peele gave the Internet: the Trailer for his new Movie, Us. 150 seconds later, I knew the tale of a family being stalked and tortured by their mysterious doppelgängers had become one of my most anticipated films of the year. And after finally having the Film blasted into my eyeballs, it’s a great feeling to know my excitement did not go ...
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#REVIEW: “HOTEL MUMBAI”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
First-time Feature Director Anthony Maras also co-writes the Script with John Collee and tells the story of the 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai that entrapped hotel guests and employees inside the Taj Hotel. The Movie simply is magnificent and will rock audiences to the core as it is also truly terrifying. The performances from the Principal Cast make Hotel Mumbai one of the most captivating yet toughest movies to watch in quite some time.
The Movie ...
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#REVIEW: “FIVE FEET APART”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Stella (Haley Lu Richardson) has Cystic Fibrosis and spends her time living in a hospital, confined to a moderately quarantined existence. She has a regimented pill schedule, a YouTube page and is doing everything she can to live in spite of the insurmountable odds against her. By chance, she meets Will (Cole Sprouse), another teenager living with CF on her floor. They start up a friendship which gradually grows into something much deeper, but the ...
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#REVIEW: “CAPTAIN MARVEL”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Vers (Brie Larson) is still learning how to use her incredible powers. She knows very little of her past, but knows she is part of an intergalactic war between the Kree and the Skrulls. After she crash lands on Earth circa 1995, she teams up with S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) to find out more about the weapon that may help end the war – and hopefully, the secrets of her mysterious past.
10 years and 20 movies later, Marvel Studios ...
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#REVIEW: “INSTANT FAMILY” ON BLU-RAY
INSTANT FAMILY is a Film of the now. We've finally embraced that there is nothing more relatable than a family with dysfunction. Director/Writer Sean Anders crafts a heartwarming Film which doesn't shy away from the ugly side of what it takes to be a family and does it with a lighthearted finesse.
The Comedy centers on a couple, Pete (Mark Wahlberg) and Ellie (Rose Byrne) whom after receiving a lot of taunting from their family, jokingly and then eventually seriously, decide to pursue ...
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#REVIEW: “HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
It has been a year since Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) reluctantly became the Chief of Berk. He continues in his quest to create a safe haven for captured dragons, but when an assassin named Grimmel (F. Murray Abraham) appears with the intention of destroying Hiccup’s trusted dragon Toothless, the new Chief must change course in order to save the people of his village and his best friend.
Oh, and there’s a Light Fury now too – and she has Toothless ...
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#REVIEW: “FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Writer and Director Stephen Merchant tells the story of a young girl from Norwich, England whose dream it was to be a WWE Superstar. He tells a story so masterful that focuses on family and what lengths we go to for family. But with a Wrestling backdrop. Make no mistake though - this isn't just simply a Wresting film.
The Movie focuses on the Knight family, Ricky Knight (Nick Frost), Julia Knight (Lena Headey), Zak Knight (Jack Lowden), and Saraya ...
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#REVIEW: “ISN’T IT ROMANTIC”
Review by George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
When we first meet a teenaged Natalie, she is in front of a TV set swooning over Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. Her mother (Ab Fab’s Jennifer Saunders in a delicious cameo) curtly says that Romantic-Comedies are tripe and that kind of love would never be in her daughter’s future, as “lovely she is not”. Fast-forward years later and Natalie (Rebel Wilson) is a junior Architect, living and working in New York City. She’s insecure, unassertive ...
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#REVIEW: “THE WIFE” ON BLU-RAY
By Mr. Will Wong
While it premiered at TIFF '17, Björn Runge's THE WIFE's path to the Oscars has been a slow, steady burn, not unlike unraveling of its characters. The Drama based on Meg Wolitzer's Novel of the same name, centers on celebrated Writer Joseph Castleman (Jonathan Pryce) and his wife, Joan (Glenn Close). They receive the surprise that Joseph will be awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature. Together with their son David (Max Irons), they are Stockholm-bound. The Story is told much ...
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