#REVIEW: “DUNKIRK”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
There is a long-standing urban legend that audience members fled their seats in terror during the premiere of the Lumière Brothers’ The Arrival of a Train. The train in the revolutionary 1896 Short Film came right at the screen and the audience feared it would run them over. The rumour has since been debunked, and our understanding of Film as a medium has grown substantially since. But 121-years later, I watched people’s fearful reactions watching ...
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#REVIEW: “A GHOST STORY”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
I am officially declaring the summer of 2017 to be the Season of Awesome Indies. Adding to a year already rife with exceptional independent films comes Writer/Director David Lowery’s A Ghost Story: a Movie whose main character looks like my 10-year-old nephew’s last Halloween costume. The idea that a ghost’s corporeal form is a sheet with two holes for eyes seems almost too juvenile for a Movie as complex as A Ghost Story, but rest assured this ...
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#REVIEW: “GIRLS TRIP”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
Some movies should be watched with a group of friends in a theatre full of people laughing uproariously. Girls Trip is one of those movies. Packed with more celebrity cameos than an entire season of SNL, this hilarious Movie from Director Malcolm D. Lee is one of the most delightful comedies of the year.
Ryan (Regina Hall), a successful author and motivational speaker, has been selected as the keynote speaker for Essence Fest in New Orleans and is ...
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#REVIEW: “WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
As War for the Planet of the Apes opens, Caesar (Andy Serkis) is still showing mercy to those who wish to eradicate his people. This mercy naturally comes back to bite him when the Colonel (Woody Harrelson) and his troops infiltrate the Apes’ village and kill Caesar’s wife and son. The Ape leader quickly trades his pacifist beliefs for vengeance upon the humans and, accompanied by his closest advisors, looks to end the war Koba began in Dawn.
At ...
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#REVIEW: “SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
After fighting alongside The Avengers, Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Tom Holland) has returned to high school and is waiting on his next mission from Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.). When Peter discovers Adrian Toomes/The Vulture’s (Michael Keaton) operation selling illegally-modified alien weaponry, he begins to investigate – but may be in way over his head.
Spider-Man: Homecoming’s script is credited to six screenwriters (Director Jon Watts ...
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#REVIEW: “THE BEGUILED”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
Remakes are tricky animals: the director is faced with the dilemma of both honouring the original and putting their own unique stamp on the new Film. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, and sometimes the director hits out of the park and is awarded with the Best Director Award at Cannes. The Beguiled elevates itself above the source material and marks a welcome return to form for Writer/Director Sophia Coppola.
The Film opens in 1863 when Amy ...
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#REVIEW: “DESPICABLE ME 3”
Review by Jonathan Godfrey for Mr. Will Wong
Illumination Entertainment celebrates their tenth year in animation with the release of Despicable Me 3. Eric Guillon, the company’s illustrious character designer, helms D3. It’s his first Feature Film as a Director, and he is helped in his efforts by veteran Kyle Balda (Minions, The Lorax, etc.). Eric’s touch is beloved by all, as Despicable Me is a world crafted largely by his unique talents. These talents were put to the test yet again as ...
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#REVIEW: “THE BIG SICK”
One of this summer's biggest sleeper hits comes by way of Sundance where not only did it pick-up distribution, but also wide acclaim and tons of buzz along the way.
The Big Sick is the semi-autobiographical love story of comedian Kumail Nanjiani and wife Emily V. Gordon, its script which they co-wrote. Initially to be a one night stand, the couple's story begins at Kumail's stand-up gig where Emily (played by Zoe Kazan) heckles him, a then fledgling funnyman. With his parents set on an ...
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#REVIEW: “OKJA”
This is the future of Film. Auteur Director Bong Joon-Ho's latest effort Okja will be looked back upon as being groundbreaking and rightfully so.
Centering on a young South Korean countrygirl Mija (Ahn Seo-hyun) and her beloved superpig Okja, the Film is on one level is about the undying love between a girl and her pet, but on a larger scale a commentary about human consumption of animals and animal welfare.
Okja the superpig, is part of an experiment from the Mirando Corporation, led now by ...
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#REVIEW: “BABY DRIVER”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
Auteur directors like Edgar Wright are becoming rarer as sequels and franchises continue to dominate the box office week after week. With Baby Driver, Wright has delivered a smart Movie which boasts original characters in an original story doing incredible things. This is a Movie with car chases make the audience catch their collective breaths as if they themselves were in the passenger. A movie where the beats of the music are as important as the ...
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