#REVIEW: “THE LAST WORD”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
The Last Word follows Harriet Lauler (Shirley MacLaine) who is cruel to anyone who comes in contact with her and takes control of everything around her. But now in the later years of her life, she begins to ponder death, what people will say when she's gone, and who will remember her. One night she stumbles on the Obituary Pages in her local newspaper and she comes up with an idea. She meets with the obituary writer, Anne Sherman (Amanda Seyfried), ...
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#REVIEW: “TABLE 19”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
Few actresses are as universally-adored as Anna Kendrick. Her awkward adorableness allows her to coast through roles that would otherwise leave audiences cringing. In Table 19, Kendrick revisits her adorkable niche as Eloise McGarry, a dumped, former maid of honour who attends the wedding of her oldest friend to prove she’s not still hung-up on the best man. Since this is a Rom-Com she is clearly not over her ex and instead decides to ruin the day ...
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#REVIEW: “THE SHACK”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
Director Stuart Hazeldine’s new Movie, The Shack, makes no bones about the fact that is about religion – specifically Christianity. The Movie stars Octavia Spencer, Avraham Aviv Alush and Sumire Matsubara as the personification of the Holy Trinity. Spencer’s Papa (as God as familiarly referred to) invites Mack (Sam Worthington) to a shack for the weekend to discuss matters of faith and forgiveness. In order to accept Papa into his heart, Mack ...
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#REVIEW: “LOGAN”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
Fans of Marvel Comics and the X-Men franchise have been waiting for a good Wolverine Movie for a long time now. They have suffered through bad origin tales and bare-bones storytelling. Unlike the character he plays, Hugh Jackman is getting older and his window to play an un-aging comic book character felt like it was getting smaller. This is why Mark Millar’s incredibly popular 2008 Graphic Novel Old Man Logan seemed destined for the big screen. ...
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#REVIEW: “BEFORE I FALL”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
It’s a mix between Mean Girls and Groundhog Day for a new generation, with an important message.
Before I Fall follows Samantha Kingston (Zoey Deutch) who has everything she could want going through high school: she’s popular, beautiful, has the most drooled after boyfriend and has a close knit of popular best friends. When she wakes up on February 12 she goes about her day as usual until she realizes its her last. Yet, she wakes up again only ...
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#REVIEW: “GET OUT”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
The trailer for Get Out debuted this past October, and I was at a loss for words after watching it. Was this an actual Feature Film, or some slickly-made prank? Who would bankroll such an audacious and wild vision? I looked into it further and discovered the Film was quite real and was the deranged product of comedian Jordan Peele. But despite my fondness for Key and Peele and being one of the fifteen people who actually watched Keanu in the theatre ...
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#REVIEW: “A UNITED KINGDOM”
Set amidst apartheid in Bechuanaland (now known as Botswana), A United Kingdom from Director Amma Asante (Belle) centers on the true story of its first President Sir Seretse Khama (David Oyelowo) and First Lady Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike). The two meet and fall in love in London, although duty calls Seretse to return to his African kingdom where both he and Ruth are faced with great disapproval from its people, his family and the British government towards their relationship, an ...
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#REVIEW: “THE GREAT WALL”
Review by Jonathan Godfrey for Mr. Will Wong
The marriage of Chinese and American cinema was inevitable. Shortly after Americans were educated on motion photography in the 1880s, the Chinese were taught the same techniques in the 1890s. Over the next 100+ years, these two countries would develop the most lucrative, privately-funded Film industries in the world. Both countries have thrived artistically and financially, and over the last few decades their relationship has elevated ...
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#REVIEW: “FIST FIGHT”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Charlie Day saves the day.
Fist Fight follows an overly-polite high school English teacher named Andy Campbell (Charlie Day) dealing with out-of-control senior class pranks, a dysfunctional administration, job cuts, a pregnant wife at home, and his daughter’s talent show all on the last day of the school year. But when Campbell tries to save his job he ends up getting the toughest and scariest colleague, Ron Strickland (Ice Cube), fired. This ...
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#REVIEW: “A CURE FOR WELLNESS”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Ambitious corporate executive Lockhart (Dane DeHaan) is on the rise at his company on Wall Street. After discovering illegal activities, his superiors task him with retrieving the company’s CEO Pembroke (Harry Groener) from a “wellness centre” in the Swiss Alps and bringing him back to the United States to sign an impending deal. But Lockhart is immediately suspicious of the spa and the facility’s director, Dr. Heinreich Volmer (Jason Isaacs) ...
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