#REVIEW: “BODIES BODIES BODIES”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Bodies Bodies Bodies is a fun, fresh whodunnit with an outstanding ensemble of upcoming talent.
It follows newly-sober Sophie (Amandla Stenberg) and her girlfriend Bee (Maria Bakalova) who travel to Sophie’s rich childhood friend David’s (Pete Davidson) family mansion for a hurricane party. Once there, it becomes clear that all of Sophie’s friends are wealthy, self-absorbed, and drug-addicted. This makes the reserved Bee feel even more like an ...
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#REVIEW: “LUCK”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Sam Greenfield (Eva Noblezada) is 18-years-old and has the worst luck imaginable. She moved around various orphanages as a child and is now on her own for the first time. Sadly, she is not doing as well as she hoped. One day, Sam’s luck changes when she gets a hold of a lucky penny and after a run-in with a talking cat named Bob (Simon Pegg), she ends up in a world where good luck and bad luck are more than just abstract ideas.
There is a whole lot ...
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#REVIEW: “BULLET TRAIN”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Ladybug (Brad Pitt) is an Assassin trying his hand at Pacifism after a few too many bad experiences. His job this time is simple enough – retrieve a briefcase from a bullet train and get off the train. Simple enough, right? Wrong. Seems like there are other assassins on the train, and they all have different objectives, agendas and connections to one another.
And of course, they all want to kill each other.
If that sounds like your idea of a good ...
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#REVIEW: “EASTER SUNDAY”
Review by Mr. Will Wong
Though EASTER SUNDAY takes elements we've seen before in Dysfunctional Family Comedies, it still does it in an impactful way speaking in a voice that is long overdue to be seen and heard.
Comedian Jo Koy is featured front and center here in this latest effort from fellow Funnyman/Director Jay Chandrasekhar. Koy places a fictionalized version of himself, Joe Valencia, who is struggling to get that next big gig, auditioning for an upcoming TV Series. He must balance ...
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#REVIEW: “DC LEAGUE OF SUPER-PETS”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
For as long as both DC Comics and Marvel have been making Television Shows and Movies, they’ve been in constant competition, which has pushed the other really to further than possiby imagined. Now with a full-fledged big screen adventure for the DC Animation Department, audiences find themselves with DC League of Super-Pets welcoming families back to theatres. This is one of the purest, most heartwarming, family-friendly, movies to come out in ...
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#REVIEW: “NOPE”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
OJ Haywood (Oscar-winner Daniel Kaluuya) is certain something strange is going on in the sky above his family’s horse ranch. Something not of this world. But he needs proof. So together with his sister Emerald (Keke Palmer), they devise a plan to get whatever it is captured on film. By any means necessary.
Before going any further, I must highlight right from the jump that NOPE is nothing like Writer/Director Jordan Peele’s previous films, Get Out ...
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#REVIEW: “VENGEANCE”
Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong
'You're a guy who already has everything. Why do you need a Podcast?', asks one of the Supporting Characters in B.J. Novak's directorial debut Vengeance, which he also writes and stars in. Instantly, this Movie needs to dig itself out of a hole. Our Protagonist has everything. He's just trying to get one more thing. The stakes could not be lower. And the new thing he's trying to get? It's a Podcast. Remember when I said the stakes could not be ...
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#REVIEW: “NEON LIGHTS”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Tech Tycoon Clay Amani (Dana Abraham) is not well. His mental health is a mess and he is haunted by childhood traumas. On the suggestion of his Therapist, Clay goes into seclusion in his isolated estate and attempts a family reunion with his estranged siblings. Feelings and secrets are revealed, as is a whole lot of awkwardness. As Clay begins unravelling – due in no small part to his trusted advisor Denver Kane (Kim Coates) – his guests start ...
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#REVIEW: “WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Based on the global best-selling Novel by Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing follows Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones) who lives in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina. She was abandoned by her family as a child and raised herself. The people of the nearest town, Barkley Cove, shut her out of their community and labelled her the Marsh Girl. Rumours about Kya have always spread around town. So when Chase Andrews (Harris Dickinson), a man she was once ...
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#REVIEW: “MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
This delightful Film takes place in '50s London and follows widowed cleaning lady Ada Harris (Lesley Manville). She’s spent most of her life living and providing for other people and their dreams, rather than tending to herself and having dreams of her own. But that all changes one day while cleaning one of her rich client’s apartment. When she lays her eyes on a beautiful Dior dress she decides she must have one of her own. After working to raise ...
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