#REVIEW: “ANT-MAN”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Last May when Edgar Wright announced he no longer would be directing the hotly-anticipated adaptation of Ant-Man, a cloud of uncertainty clouded the Project... despite production having not yet begun. However Peyton Reed manages to do what most people thought was impossible, and that is making this Film another successful entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As far as first installments go, Ant-Man is right up there with what started the Marvel ...
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#REVIEW: “SELF/LESS”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
From Director Tarsem Singh (The Fall, Mirror Mirror) comes his seventh Film Self/Less, which begins in promising form, but unfortunately finishes a bit too predictably. Screenwriting Brothers Alex & David Pastor have attempted to bring us an interesting supernatural Story, but it too often gets bogged-down in discussion of morality that make this intriguing body-swapping Thriller less compelling.
Self/Less focuses on Damian (Ben Kingsley) ...
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#REVIEW: “BIG GAME”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Writer/Director Jalmari Helander brings his latest, an Finnish/English Movie in BIG GAME, to the big screen and it translates to some big fun! It is endlessly-entertaining from start to finish, with plenty of over-the-top action sequences which we can't get enough of.
Big Game focuses on of-age Oskari (Onni Tommila) as he is tasked with the responsibility from his father and village to go into the woods and bring back a trophy kill. However, ...
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#REVIEW: “MINIONS”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Kyle Balda and Pierre Coffin team-up to co-direct the newest animated feature from Illumination Studios, those adorable Twinkie-esque beings we love from Despicable Me, the Minions. Sometimes Spinoffs work with beloved characters, and other times they are disastrous. Both thankfully and fortunately, this Spinoff does not fall into either. It is hilarious, but panders to the youngest of children that leaves the Audience mostly, leaving us older ...
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#REVIEW: “MAGIC MIKE XXL”
Review by George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
They’re back! The uber-hunks with the rock-hard, washboard abs so defined you could grate Parmesan cheese on reunite on screen in MAGIC MIKE XXL, the sequel to the wildly successful and entertaining 2012 hit about the lives, loves and dreams of a bunch of ridiculously handsome working class guys who make a living as male strippers. While the original Movie, directed by Steven Soderbergh, was loosely based on Channing Tatum’s experience as an exotic ...
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#REVIEW: “SUITE FRANÇAISE”
Inspired by the acclaimed, post-humously-released Novel by War Prisoner Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française is set in a Nazi-occupied France during WWII. Nazi soldiers are assigned to billets, hosted by reluctant French Villagers. We meet Lucille (Michelle Williams) and her Mother-in-Law Madame Angellier (Kristin Scott Thomas) as Husband and Son to both respectively, is sent-off to war. Tension grows thick as a Nazi Lieutenant named Bruno (Matthias Schoenaerts) enters the picture, assigned ...
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#REVIEW: “TERMINATOR GENISYS”
Review by Jonathan Godfrey for Mr. Will Wong
In 1984 an all new time-travelling romance hit the silver screen. Two star-crossed lovers on the edge of tomorrow birthed a messiah in the mouth of madness. The mouth was that of the mechanical monstrosity titled, Terminator. Mother and Child survived the ordeal only to face it again years later. Judgment Day: the machines sought to punish humanity for its hubris. The Mother and Child stayed alive. Our extinction was thwarted… time and time ...
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#REVIEW: “TED 2”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
In the summer of 2012, Seth MacFarlane introduced us to Ted, a foul-mouthed, stoner teddy bear. The idea sounded positively demented on paper, but ended up being outrageously hilarious from beginning to end. Three years later, and a year after striking-out with his Western sendup A Million Ways to Die in the West, MacFarlane is bringing Ted back for more.
Newlyweds Ted (MacFarlane) and Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth) want to conceive, but are unable to do ...
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#REVIEW: “THE OVERNIGHT”
I hesitate to call THE OVERNIGHT a Swingers' Comedy because it is and it isn't. Really, it's a lot more complicated than that and a lot more delicate than that label suggests. Parks & Recreation Star Adam Scott not only stars, but produces the Film, which is directed and written by Patrick Brice. It goes to some awkward and uncomfortable places that most Comedies are afraid to go to, and in that regard it is groundbreaking in that it has something to say.
The Film centers on a ...
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#REVIEW: “MAX”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Director and Co-Writer Boaz Yakin (The Rookie, Safe, Now You See Me) takes a very different step in his writing direction as he takes on the heartfelt story of the Belgian Malinois dog, Max, and how he copes with the new world after returning from Afghanistan. This Story does seem slightly far-fetched but it works due to the interweaving stories that all center around Max and focuses on more of the dynamic and relationships that dogs can bring into ...
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