#REVIEW: “THE FABULOUS FOUR”
By Mr. Will Wong
We never grow tired of the tried and true, and Jocelyn Moorhouse (Proof, The Dressmaker) is back with Comedy THE FABULOUS FOUR. We love that four female buddy trope where ladies get in trouble, hash-out their long suppressed issues and everything ends in a big celebration. This Film is no different and it's same script, different Cast. But have you seen this iconic, decorated Cast?
The story centers on introverted Lou (Susan Sarandon) who is an accomplished doctor, who ...
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#REVIEW: MARVEL STUDIOS’ “DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
It’s been eight years since the Merc with the mouth graced the screens in a respectable way (looking directly at Origins) and the world has never been the same, nor has Marvel. A lot has changed, which is summarized in the opening minutes of Shawn Levy’s Deadpool & Wolverine. Here, the greatest team-up that no one ever thought would be possible, is possible. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we have now entered the Mutant Era as Marvel ...
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#REVIEW: “TWISTERS”
Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong
In 1996, Twister firmly established that--in the context of cinema--running from (and towards) tornados, watching them suck random people into the sky, and experiencing their devastating impact on anonymous small towns will forever be fun and cool. 28 years later, Twisters takes this idea and.. does it a second time. It's not so much a sequel as a soft remake featuring some of the same tech, and a similar 'will-they-or-won't-they' romantic ...
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#REVIEW: “NATIONAL ANTHEM”
By Mr. Will Wong
Photographer-turned-Director Luke Gilford makes a very notable Feature debut with NATIONAL ANTHEM, which already has done the Festival circuit to much acclaim. The queer coming-of-age story, based on Gilford's Photbook National Anthem: America's Queer Rodeo, takes place against a Western backdrop and is unlike anything we've ever seen or felt.
The New Mexico-set Drama centers on 21-year-old Dylan, who is working as a construction worker to make ends meet for himself, his ...
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#REVIEW: “FLY ME TO THE MOON”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Kelly Jones (Scarlett Johansson) is a marketing executive from New York City at the top of her game. She gets recruited by Moe Berkus (Woody Harrelson) who works under Nixon's White House to convince Congress and the public that NASA can pull off the Apollo 11 moon landing. When she arrives she meets reluctant Cole Davis (Channing Tatum) who’s running the mission. He doesn’t want this dangerous mission to become a marketing ploy. Yet, ...
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#REVIEW: “LONGLEGS”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
There are marketing campaigns that get audiences so hyped-up for a movie that you think to yourself, there is no way the movie can possibly live up to that hype. Well, in the case of Oz Perkins' terrifying hellscape Longlegs, the marketing somehow feels undersold! Even without being a gorefest, it confidently is being touted as “the scariest movie” of the decade, year, and so forth. Longlegs may be one of the most psychologically-taxing Horror ...
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#REVIEW: “MaXXXine”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
The final entry to the X Trilogy is a sultry and gritty love letter to '80s Tinseltown and its filmmaking.
Writer-Director Ti West has created a Trilogy of Slasher Films that pay homage to different decades of filmmaking. X — our first introduction to Maxine (Mia Goth) —brought us back to the '70s and paid homage to Grindhouse Cinema like the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. With Pearl, West mixed the period's melodrama and ...
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#REVIEW: “A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Lupita Nyong’o gives a formidable performance in this deeply moving Sci-Fi Horror about human connection and mortality.
The beloved franchise that John Krasinski created is in safe hands under a new Writer-Director. What made The A Quiet Place films stand out was the intimate story of family, sacrifice, and connection within a big concept world about the possible end of humanity. Micheal Sarnoski who worked with Krasinski on the story development ...
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#REVIEW: “KINDS OF KINDNESS”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
A man is trying to take back control of his life.
A missing woman comes home and might not be herself.
Members of a cult are searching for a spiritual healer.
Those three loglines make up Co-Writer/Director Yorgos Lanthimos’ triptych Anthology fable KINDS OF KINDNESS. They loosely connect based on themes and the appearance of one character, but upon first glance, do not really have anything to do with one another. Each story stars the same stable ...
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#REVIEW: “INSIDE OUT 2”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Pixar’s Inside Out 2 is the most fun we’ve had with anxiety.
This enchanting Sequel to the beloved original, once again follows Riley (Kensington Tallman) and the emotions in her head. Now in her teens, Riley is adjusting to moving from Minnesota to San Francisco and the changes keep coming. When she attends a three-day hockey skills summer camp with her two best friends, Grace (Grace Lu) and Bree (Sumayyah Nuriddin-Green) she learns ...
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