#REVIEW: “THE ROOM NEXT DOOR”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth when they worked at the same magazine. However, as they grew-up and developed their own careers, they naturally grew apart. When Ingrid runs into an old colleague from the magazine, she asks about Martha. She learns Martha has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. This leads the two to meet again in this extreme, tender situation after years of being out of ...
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#REVIEW: “MUFASA: THE LION KING”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Picking up a few years following 2019's The Lion King, Simba (Donald Glover) leaves the Pride Lands to go on a mysterious mission to bring Nala (BeyoncĂŠ) back. Simba leaves their young daughter, Kiara (Blue Ivy Carter), in the care of Pumbaa (Seth Rogen) and Timon (Billy Eichner). Thankfully for the rambunctious warthog and meerkat, Rafiki (John Kani) comes with a story to keep Kiara â and them â invested. Here, we are taken into Mufasaâs ...
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#REVIEW: “NOSFERATU”
Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong
Dracula!!! Ever heard of him? Robert Eggers' Nosferatu might make you wish you never had. His reinvention of the classic, hall of fame monster is arguably the most flat-out foreboding, hair-raising, (and least charming!) version ever put to film.
It's 1838 as winter descends on Victorian England. I had no idea Nosferatu was a Christmas movie. Ellen Hunter (Lily-Rose Depp) teeters on the brink of madness, haunted by visions of an obsessive ...
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#REVIEW: “KRAVEN THE HUNTER”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
All things, whether good or bad, must come to an end and with J.C. Chandorâs Kraven the Hunter (that was postponed for roughly 18 months) the Sony Pictures-MCU experiment is finally over, and somehow single individuals are in dismay. What started this year with a meme about a mother in the Amazon, slowly became the perfect allegory for all of the Sony Pictures-Marvel movies â a web is something a spider creates to trap its prey, but without a ...
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#REVIEW: “THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE WAR OF ROHIRRIM”
Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong
Long before The Two Towers, there was another battle of good and evil waged at Helm's Deep. Cut to princess Hera (Gaia Wise) at the top of a hill, gazing out at the majesty of Middle-earth. Our anonymous narrator notes that after her time, no one sang songs of her. A compelling riddle: if no one felt like writing a song about her, why make a feature film? Did she change her name? Was her story cut short? The answer, I'm afraid, is nowhere near ...
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#REVIEW: “A COMPLETE UNKNOWN”
By Mr. Will Wong
James Mangold returns with A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, a companion piece in ways, to his Oscar-winning WALK THE LINE. The Bob Dylan Biopic is a worthy successor to that, if not an even greater cinematic feat.
This Biopic introduces us to a young Robert Zimmerman also known as Bob Dylan (TimothĂŠe Chalamet), arriving in New York City from the midwest with the hopes of meeting his idol Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy) in the hospital. And he does that, impressing him with his raw talent, ...
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#REVIEW: “Y2K”
Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong
At the tail-end of 1999, many wondered if there would be some kind of worldwide technological meltdown when we crossed over into the year 2000 because computer clocks weren't programmed to represent years using four digits. Maybe the year "00" would force laptops to turn into bricks and airplanes to fall from the sky. Of course, nothing happened. Kyle Mooney's Y2K imagines a world where those fears were completely justified and then some. At ...
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#REVIEW: “MARIA”
Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong
After Jackie and Spencer, two of the most beautiful and empathic biopics of the last ten years, Pablo LarraĂn turns his camera on Maria Callas, inâyou guessed itâMARIA. Set during her final days as she struggles to regain her legendary voice, Maria encapsulates a somber ending to a magnificent life. Callas skips back and forth through time, suffusing even her fondest memories with a shadowy grief. Maria is as much Pablo ...
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#REVIEW: “WICKED PART I”
Review by Mr. Will Wong
Truly a landmark moment! Director Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians) had the monumental task of bringing iconic musical Wicked to the big screen and is it ever a triumph! Full disclosure, I have never seen the stage production, so I came into the Film completely blind. And it didnât even matter one bit.
This Wicked Witch of the West origins story centers around Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), a social outcast who likewise is rejected by her own family because of her ...
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