#REVIEW: “MORTAL KOMBAT”

Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong MMA Fighter Cole Young (Lewis Tan) is the kind of fighter who takes any match if money involved. When a mysterious assassin targets him, Cole escapes and finds himself thrust into a world of warriors, fighters and adversaries all training to compete in a tournament called Mortal Kombat. With a movie like MORTAL KOMBAT, you immediately lower your expectations. You are not going to be watching an Oscar-worthy globetrotting epic filled with nuanced ... Read more

#REVIEW: “CHAOS WALKING”

Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong In the distant future, humans have looked to colonize on new planets and the all-male colony living in the New World have been afflicted with something referred to as ‘The Noise’ which manifests one’s thoughts for everyone to see and hear. Todd (Tom Holland) yearns to both control his noise and to impress the local mayor David (Mads MIkkelsen). When a spaceship crash-lands near his farm and the lone survivor is a young woman named Viola (Daisy ... Read more

#REVIEW: “BROTHERS BY BLOOD”

Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong Brothers by Blood sadly doesn’t deliver the punch it promises even with its talented Cast. While the Movie may have you believe Brothers by Blood is a gritty Crime-Drama in the underbelly of the Philadelphia mob, it is more about a pair of cousins trying to figure out how to get their lives and gang back together from a rival family gang. However, one cousin is a hot head who cannot be trusted and the other is just trying to save the family. The ... Read more

#REVIEW: “THE COURIER”

By George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong Based on true events, this espionage tale, set in the early '60s when Kennedy and Khrushchev were playing a dangerous version of “quien es mas macho” with nuclear warheads, THE COURIER is a compelling and powerful story of heroic activities coupled with the strong bond of friendship. Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze), uncomfortable with Khrushchev’s rhetoric, has a letter smuggled out of Moscow expressing his concerns for the world’s ... Read more

#REVIEW: “IN THE EARTH”

Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong A deadly virus is ravaging the world and Dr. Olivia Wendle’s (Hayley Squires) research may be the key to a cure. Her colleague Dr. Martin Lowery (Joel Fry, who you might recognize from Danny Boyle’s Yesterday) is worried about his friend when she suddenly goes radio silent, so he sets out on a two-day trek alongside park scout Alma (Ellora Torchia) to find Wendle’s research post. Their journey will be anything but easy. I was initially very ... Read more

#REVIEW: “WILLY’S WONDERLAND”

Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong In order to get new wheels for his car, a nameless drifter must spend the night cleaning up the abandoned children’s party restaurant, Willy’s Wonderland. He cleans and pays no attention to the animatronic animals on stage initially – that is, until they start attacking him. Oh and the nameless drifter is played by the immortal Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage. And he spends the entire Movie either silent, grunting or yelling while he gets soaked in ... Read more

#REVIEW: “MOFFIE”

By George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong MOFFIE, set in 1981 South Africa during the apartheid regime, opens with 16-year-old Nicholas (Kai Luke Brummer) ready to leave his loving family to serve in the military for two years as mandated by the government for all white boys that age. It is a shocking reminder of how vile the Caucasian white minority government was at that time. At war with Angola for fear of being overrun by communists, it was also anti-black, anti-British and anti-gay. Nicholas, ... Read more

#REVIEW: “FRENCH EXIT”

By Mr. Will Wong Patrick DeWitt adapts his darkly-comedic Novel FRENCH EXIT for the big screen and while it succeeds mostly, this really is a rich opportunity for screen legend Michelle Pfeiffer to strut her stuff and she is just mesmerizing. The Film, directed by Azazel Jacobs, centers on a widow named Frances (Pfeiffer) who realizes that she is running out of money after having lived many years privileged, and decides to move to Paris with her son Malcolm (Lucas Hedges) after selling ... Read more

#REVIEW: “GODZILLA VS. KONG”

Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong Five years after his last sighting, Godzilla has emerged and attacked the headquarters of a major technology company. With anxieties and fears running at an all-time high, a group of scientists must turn to the only titan left to save them: the giant ape they call Kong. That is the basic set-up of the GODZILLA VS. KONG battle royale, without mentioning the extended subplot involving “Hollow Earth” and whatever conspiracy tech company Apex ... Read more

#REVIEW: “BETTER DAYS”

By Mr. Will Wong Hong Kong's official entry at the 93rd Academy Awards is BETTER DAYS, from Director Derek Tsang, son of screen legend/TVB Executive Eric Tsang, whose film Soul Mate went on to which much acclaim in his native Hong Kong a few years back.   This compelling Adaptation of Young Adult Novel In His Youth, In Her Beauty, tackles the timely issue of bulling and makes a splash in doing so. The story centers on Chen Nian (acclaimed young Actress Zhou Dongyu) who is on the verge ... Read more