#REVIEW: “RIDERS OF JUSTICE”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Markus (Mads Mikkelsen) has to return home suddenly from a tour in Afghanistan after his wife dies in a freak train accident. He does not get along with his daughter Mathilde (Andrea Heick Gadeberg) and spends his nights drinking and smoking. That is, until Mathematician and train passenger Otto (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) shows up with two friends claiming the accident may have actually been a preplanned means of assassinating a government witness.
When I ...
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#REVIEW: “IN THE HEIGHTS”
By Mr. Will Wong
Based on Lin-Manuel Miranda's 2007 Tony Award-winning Musical of the same name, comes Jon M. Chu's big screen adaptation of IN THE HEIGHTS. Set in Washington Heights, the story embodies the beauty, struggles and hopes of living in a predominantly Latinx neighbourhood, known also as "Little Dominican Republic".
The story is set around bodega owner Usnavi (Anthony Ramos), young, hard-working and likable. He had lost his parents and is hoping to re-connect with his roots in ...
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#REVIEW: “PROFILE”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
There are very few movies that can leave you shaken for weeks, even months. Profile is that movie. It is thought-provoking while shedding light on how even the strongest people can get sucked into a dark web, subjected to the terrors that come with it. Timur Bekmambetov directs and writes with Britt Poulton and Olga Kharina, bringing to life this incredibly harrowing story.
Amy (Valene Kane) is a reporter for a British paper as she goes undercover ...
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#REVIEW: “THE KILLING OF TWO LOVERS”
Review by Mr. Will Wong
After premiering last year at Sundance to much acclaim, we now get a chance to witness this compelling look at standards of masculinity and what happens when people fall out of love, while still trying to keep their family intact.
Directed, written and produced by Robert Machoian, THE KILLING OF TWO LOVERS centers on David (Clayne Crawford) who in a last ditch attempt to save his marriage and family, agrees to an open-relationship with wife Nikki (Sepideh Moafi). ...
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#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 ...
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#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 ...
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#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 ...
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#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 ...
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#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 ...
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#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 ...
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