#REVIEW: “ME BEFORE YOU”
Review by Jonathan Godfrey for Mr. Will Wong
Catharsis is an emotional tragedy that brings about physical renewal. Catharsis is what many will experience when watching Me Before You. Adapted to the screen by the author of the book, Me Before You is a story about choices. How difficult they are to make, and how difficult they are to stand by.
The Film stars Emilia Clarke as the effervescent Louisa “Lou” Clarke. She lives in a sleepy market town where jobs are scarce and her father is ...
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#REVIEW: “POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Where does one even start with a Movie that is written by the three members of The Lonely Island and directed by two of the three members? Well for starters it is the most entertaining Movie of the year. That is not hyperbole, it is outright outrageously hilarious for a Movie that runs 86 minutes where approximately 75 of those minutes are spent laughing uncontrollably. I honestly cannot remember a time where I was so overjoyed by a Movie that I was ...
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#REVIEW: “JANE GOT A GUN”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Jane Hammond (Natalie Portman) and her husband Bill (Noah Emmerich) lead a peaceful life after escaping from the clutches of the brutal Bishop Boys gang, led by John Bishop (Ewan McGregor). Their lives are shattered when Bill returns home riddled with bullets after a duel with the gang and the promise that John is coming to finish the job. With no one to turn to, Jane enlists the help of her ex-lover Dan Frost (Joel Edgerton) to help defend Bill and ...
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#REVIEW: “ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
When Lewis Carroll first introduced Wonderland, people were astounded at the fantastical world he had created. It was place where smiling cats, talking rabbits and blood thirsty queens existed beyond the realms of imagination and seemed as real to his readers as they did to young Alice. In 2010, Tim Burton reimagined that world as a vivid Technicolor acid trip and people flocked to the cinemas to meet his new Alice and follow her down the rabbit hole. ...
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#REVIEW: “X-MEN: APOCALYPSE”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Bryan Singer is back with his fourth X-Men Film as he attempts to continue the franchise he built back in 2000 and then returned to in 2014. X-Men: Apocalypse picks up shortly after Days of Future Past in which we see our new heroes and anti-heroes facing their greatest challenge yet, Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac). From start to finish X-Men: Apocalypse is an absolute delight and a blast. Singer returns to form and gives us the third X-Men Movie we ...
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#REVIEW: “THE INTERVENTION” (INSIDE OUT FESTIVAL)
Those of you attending the Inside Out Festival are in for a real treat. The Opening Gala this year is relationship dramedy THE INTERVENTION written, acted and directed by Clea Duvall. The Film focuses on four couples who retreat at the home of troubled couple Ruby (Cobie Smulders) and Peter (Vincent Piazza). After noticing constant vicious fighting between Ruby and Peter, out of concern, their friends including Jessie (Duvall) and Sarah (Natasha Lyonne), Jack (Ben Schwartz) and Lola (Alia ...
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#REVIEW: ARIANA GRANDE – “DANGEROUS WOMAN”
I admit it, I had my doubts about Ariana Grande's longevity at first. Who'd have guessed that the girl from Nickelodeon's Victorious would go on to be a bona fide recording artist? Now onto her third album, DANGEROUS WOMAN, Grande's body of work keeps getting stronger and stronger. I'll admit it, I'm sold finally.
Following a successful formula so far which has combined ballads and slinky mid-tempo jams, this Disc not only is a cut from the same cloth as her first two discs, but a ...
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#REVIEW: “NEIGHBORS 2”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
With the extensive team of five writers, Andrew Jay Cohen, Brendan O’Brien, Nicholas Stoller, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg comes the sequel to the ridiculously entertaining Neighbors, Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising picks-up exactly where the audience expects it too, our two main characters having sex again, but actually, with the fraternity brothers living in a different space, filling the audience in with their ...
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#REVIEW: “THE NICE GUYS”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
The original Lethal Weapon starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover was released the year I was born. While this makes me feel ancient (especially with that new Fox series remake on the way this fall), it also strikes me as absolutely criminal that the Film’s writer, Shane Black, has only had middling success ever since. The once hot young talent rocked the 1990s, before blasting off again with his directorial debut Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang in 2005 – ...
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#REVIEW: “THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Directing duo Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly team-up with screenwriter Jon Vitti to bring to the big screen one of the most popular mobile games in recent memory, Angry Birds. When first announced that there was going to be an Angry Birds Movie, there was a mixed reaction because the fandom behind the birds and pigs has fizzled a bit since becoming a worldwide phenomenon and the idea behind a 90 minute Movie with a cohesive story behind it seemed ...
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