#REVIEW: “CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS: THE FIRST EPIC MOVIE”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Tra-la-laaa! Growing up, reading was never something that truly grabbed my attention, until this uncanny superhero book came to my attention by Author Dav Pilkey, who created a world I have never otherwise been exposed to. This world while completely fictional and ridiculous, brought together two friends as they created Captain Underpants comic books to help them escape their realities. While the books are in ways 'juvenile', as an adult seeing ...
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#REVIEW: “WONDER WOMAN”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
Over the last 75 years there have been countless movies about superheroes yet only three of them have featured female protagonists in the lead role: Supergirl, Catwoman and Electra. Despite headlining her own massively popular TV show in the 1970s, Wonder Woman, the mother of all superheroines, has never been granted the same cinematic privileges as her male counterparts. Until now.
When Steve Trevor crash lands on the island of Themyscira during the ...
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#REVIEW: “PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
When franchises expand beyond three movies, there is always the worry of fatigue. That case often is true and it is rare that a successor is so well-made it can surpass its predecessors. In the case of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, this latest installment does exactly that. This is the Pirates sequel people have been waiting for since 2003's standout The Curse of the Black Pearl. Dead Men Tell No Tales brings back familiar ...
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#REVIEW: “BAYWATCH”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Mitch Buchannon (Dwayne Johnson) leads the elite Baywatch team of lifeguards in South Florida. He is reluctant to add disgraced Olympic champion Matt Brody (Zac Efron) to the team, but with drugs and dead bodies turning up on the beach, Mitch will need all the help he can get to find out who’s responsible.
As a religious viewer of the legendary 90s TV Series, it pains me to say that Baywatch is an all-around disappointment. Whatever promise of fun ...
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#REVIEW: “ALIEN: COVENANT”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
The Covenant ship is heading towards a distant planet on a colonization mission. On board are a small crew, alongside thousands of colonists and embryos – all in deep cryosleep. A freak shockwave hits the ship, killing the captain and a number of colonists. As the newly awakened crew assess the damage, they receive a radio transmission from a nearby planet – which may have a better chance for colonization than their original destination. Against ...
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#REVIEW: “EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Everything, Everything is unique from other illness driven teen romance films.
18-year-old Maddy (Amandla Stenberg) has never left her house. When she was a baby her doctor, who is also her mother, diagnosed her with SCID (severe combined immunodeficiency). People who suffer from SCID usually die during the early years of her life. But Maddy has survived because her mother has built their home to protect her from the contaminates outside. Maddy has ...
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#REVIEW: “CHUCK”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
When making a Biopic there are always a few challenges, most of which is to focus on the important parts of the subject's life and doing it concisely. With Philippe Falardeau’s Chuck, the Film manages to tread cautiously while also telling a very interesting story. The story focuses on Chuck Wepner, the Boxer from Bayonne, New Jersey who went 15 rounds with Muhammad Ali, the inspiration for Rocky, and then unfortunately fell off the deep end. The ...
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#REVIEW: “KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD”
Review by Jonathan Godfrey for Mr. Will Wong
The legend of King Arthur has been around for over a thousand years. It grew from humble origins to include an immortal wizard, a holy grail… and endless cinematic interpretations. Guy Ritchie offers up the latest, one that is delightfully experimental and incredibly well cast. Its story starts in the latter days of Romano-Britain, in Londinium to be exact. Where the great Uther Pendragon (Eric Bana) has been usurped by his brother Vortigern (Jude ...
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#REVIEW: “SNATCHED”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Emily (Amy Schumer) loses her job and boyfriend in the same day, and cannot find a friend to accompany her on a non-refundable vacation to Ecuador. After some persuading, she convinces her paranoid, overly-cautious mother Linda (Goldie Hawn) to join her. Linda is reluctant to partake in the same kind of debauchery as her daughter, but does accompany Emily on a day trip with a local young man – where the pair find themselves kidnapped and eventually ...
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#REVIEW: “THE WALL”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
In the latest feature from Amazon Studios, the psychology of war is as much a weapon as the bullets in a sniper’s gun. The Wall is a deceptively simple Movie with only one major set – a crumbling wall surrounded by junk piles and abandoned vehicles. One of the three leads has zero screen time and is recognizable only by his voice as he toys with his opponent over a two-way radio. Another is face down in the sand or off-screen for most of the Movie, ...
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