#REVIEW: “THE LOST DAUGHTER”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
College Professor Leda (Olivia Colman) goes to a seaside town in Greece for a quiet work holiday. What she gets instead is a loud family that invades her daily beach visits. However, she finds a kindred spirit among the family in young mother Nina (Dakota Johnson). As the days go on, Leda becomes more obsessed with Nina and her young daughter, forcing her to confront her unsettling past.
Director and Screenwriter Maggie Gyllenhaal does an exquisite ...
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#REVIEW: “DON’T LOOK UP”
Review by George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
Late one night and alone, astronomy graduate student Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) believes she discovered an asteroid and immediately contacts her professor, Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio), with the news, who arrives with a number of astronomy students in tow. While crunching numbers, their faces freeze in fear as they ascertain that this piece of rock (the size of Mount Everest) is hurling towards Earth and will completely destroy the ...
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#REVIEW: STEVEN SPIELBERG’S “WEST SIDE STORY”
Review by George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
Having to wait a full year to see the Steven Spielberg remake of the classic WEST SIDE STORY has been frustrating to say the least. I was salivating to see triple Oscar-winning Director not only tackle his first time helming a Movie Musical but also see how he and Screenwriter Tony Kushner (Angels in America, Lincoln) would address some of the racial insensitivities portrayed in the original version. And, on a purely selfish note, as a rabid Stephen ...
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#REVIEW: “SINGLE ALL THE WAY”
By Mr. Will Wong
'Tis the season for a festive little Rom-Com! We love Michael Urie (Ugly Betty) and are thrilled he lands the starring role as Peter in SINGLE ALL THE WAY from Director Michael Mayer.
Trying to avoid the constant pressure from his family because of his being single, Peter decides to bring his best friend Nick (Philemon Chambers), posing as his lover, home to silence them. This doesn't stop them from trying to set him up! Though Peter strikes a connection with James (Luke ...
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#REVIEW: “THE HAND OF GOD”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
The Hand of God is Filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino’s most personal film to date and is a visually stunning love letter to his native Naples. The Film takes place in 1980s Naples, Italy, and follows Fabietto (Filippo Scotti) and his delightful family. Fabietto’s life forever changes when he is inadvertently saved from a heartbreaking accident by soccer legend Diego Maradona.
What's most exciting about The Hand of God is the constant tug between ...
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#REVIEW: “BLACK FRIDAY”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
With so many other Horror movies tackling holidays and unofficial holidays, it was only a matter of time before the scariest retail holiday of all, BLACK FRIDAY, was turned into a Horror flick.
Taking place in the weening hours of Thanksgiving night, a group of big box toy store employees are setting up for the surge of customers waiting in line. When they enter, some buy their toys and leave, while others meander around the store. Except they are ...
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#REVIEW: “THE BEATLES: GET BACK”
Review by George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
If I asked you why Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona and you know the answer, you’re in for an exceptional early Holiday gift; if you don’t, sit yourself down and bask in what is the glory of Director Peter Jackson’s multi-part, three-night Docuseries THE BEATLES: GET BACK that will launch exclusively on Disney+. As a lifelong fanatic of this group that not only revolutionized music, their impact can be found in the social strata that exist ...
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#REVIEW: “C’MON C’MON”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Mike Mills’ latest is a special film that has the power to make us feel less alone.
Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) is a Radio Journalist who travels the country interviewing kids about their thoughts on their world and future. When his sister Viv (Gaby Hoffman) asks him to care for her son Jesse (Woody Norman) while she aides to Jesse’s father, Johnny heads to California. Viv soon realizes she may need more time, so Johnny brings Jesse along to New ...
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#REVIEW: “HAWKEYE”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Finally the original Avengers all have their own moment to shine, it’s only been over a decade after all! I will admit there is a little bit of disappointment that between Black Widow and the first two episodes of Hawkeye we have yet to find out what really happened in Budapest. I digress though, as those first two episodes of Hawkeye are terrific and pack that holiday punch the season truly needs. 'Tis the season to shoot arrows and beat up bad ...
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#REVIEW: “HOUSE OF GUCCI”
By Mr. Will Wong
HOUSE OF GUCCI has long been on atop our most anticipated of 2021, and does it live-up to our hopes? In ways it does, but it is unable to avoid some issues despite some phenomenal performances from its Oscar-caliber Ensemble.
Based on Sara Gay Forden's outstanding 2001 Book "House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed", Ridley Scott is tasked with bringing to the big screen this ambitious chronicling of both the rise of an empire and the ...
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