#REVIEW: “CAFÉ SOCIETY”

Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong There are few figures in Hollywood more divisive than Woody Allen. The Writer/Director has his detractors and they will eagerly line-up to say why they won’t watch his Movies. I begin with this acknowledgement only to highlight why it is important to set aside personal biases and look at a Movie as an individual being separate from whatever history or opinions one may have about its creator. While many aspects of Café Society can be paralleled to ... Read more

#REVIEW: “STAR TREK: BEYOND” (BARCO ESCAPE EXPERIENCE)

Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong The Star Trek that Gene Roddenberry first introduced the world to in 1966 has moved past the small screen, to the big screen, and now thanks to the Barco Escape Experience the Starship Enterprise is ready to once again boldly go where no one has gone before. The new ultra-panoramic format has finally arrived at Cineplex’s Scotiabank Theatres in Toronto, Edmonton, and Vancouver just in time for Star Trek Beyond. The Barco Escape Experience is a ... Read more

#REVIEW: “LIGHTS OUT”

Review by Jonathan Godfrey for Mr. Will Wong Lights Out began as a short. In 2013, David Sandberg submitted nearly three minutes of scares to Bloody Cuts first ever Film Challenge, “Who’s There.” Sandberg took home “Best Director” that year, and gained massive internet attention thereafter. Later he teamed up with James Wan to stretch his short into a feature, and scare us silly this summer. Teresa Palmer stars as Rebecca, a troubled woman from a troubled home. Her mother has ... Read more

#REVIEW: “ICE AGE: COLLISION COURSE”

Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong It has been four years since Mike Thurmeier delivered an installment in the Ice Age Franchise and along with him we have Writers Michael J. Wilson and Michael Berg returning in Ice Age: Collision Course is a perfect Sequel that the target audience will enjoy immensely. While some of the jokes and gags are geared to the parents and an older audience, which they will enjoy, the Film more grabs the children’s attention. This Movie starts off ... Read more

#REVIEW: “LIFE, ANIMATED”

Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong I want to start this review on a more personal note than the other reviews for Hot Docs. I have a brother who suffers from autism and I understand the struggles and hardship associated with it. But I also understand the wrong and terrible stigmas associated with autism as well. There are different levels of autism ranging from high functioning verbal to low functioning non-verbal and my brother falls in the realm of non-verbal and relatively high ... Read more

#REVIEW: “ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS THE MOVIE”

The phenomenon of BBC series AbFab is something that has spread far beyond its unsuspecting roots as a French & Saunders sketch. Lauded for its uncensored brevity, AbFab in many ways has had a cultural impact and the way we see women in Television and Film. After a successful initial run in the early to mid '90s and revivals thereafter, its latest incarnation comes in Film form as an international release, Absolutely Fabulous The Movie. Director Mandie Fletcher returns and Jennifer Saunders ... Read more

#REVIEW: “EQUALS”

Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong I have been unable to shake or replicate the feeling I had watching Director Drake Doremus’ Like Crazy at TIFF in the fall of 2011. The intimacy and poignancy of the romance at the heart of that Film, brought to life by future Oscar-nominee Felicity Jones and the late Anton Yelchin, was just as beautiful as it was devastating. And that’s without even mentioning the supporting turn from some up-and-comer named Jennifer Lawrence. I mention all ... Read more

#REVIEW: “GHOSTBUSTERS”

Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong Years ago, scientists Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig) and Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy) wrote a book together about the paranormal. Very few believed their theories – but Yates continued her research while Gilbert tried to distance herself away. But when ghosts start appearing across Manhattan, the two are brought together alongside nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon) and subway worker Patty Tolan (Leslie Jones) to investigate, research ... Read more

#REVIEW: “THE DEBT”

Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong The word "debt" immediately brings to mind stacks of bills marked past due and a bright red bank balance preceded by a negative sign. In Writer/Director Barney Elliot’s new Movie, The Debt, financial debts are least of his characters’ worries: the obligations of karmic and moral debt weigh much heavier in these three intersecting storylines. Oliver Campbell (Stephen Dorff) has devoted the last two years of his life to engineering a land deal in ... Read more

#REVIEW: “WIENER DOG”

Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong Writer/Director Todd Solondz brings what is being referred to as a Sequel to Welcome to the Dollhouse, Wiener-Dog is a heart warming story about how a small change can bring so much joy and love into life. The story focuses on a wiener-dog as he manages to enrich four separate lives/families as he moves from family to family in this beautifully-told cohesive story. The Movie starts off with a family consisting of Danny (Tracy Letts), Dina (Julie ... Read more