#REVIEW: “ANOTHER SIMPLE FAVOR”
By Mr. Will Wong
Let's be real. Favours are never that simple. Picking up where we left in 2018's A SIMPLE FAVOR, the stakes are upped in this latest installment of Paul Feig's Dark Comedy Mystery series, ANOTHER SIMPLE FAVOR. Set in scenic Italy, we get even more deception, crazy plot twists, and of course, laughs.
We catch up with Stephanie (Anna Kendrick), going from Mommy Blogger to popular Crime Author after helping cracking the case on alluring "friend" Emily (Blake Lively). The two ...
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#REVIEW: MARVEL’S “THUNDERBOLTS*”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
* This is an attempt at a spoiler-free review. But we can’t promise complete safety. Read at your own risk. *
Marvel's Thunderbolts* is an entertaining, fun thrill ride with a new group of Marvel — anti? — Heroes that delivers darker themes and excellent character development.
Ensnared in a death trap set by Valentina (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), an unconventional team of antiheroes — Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), ...
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#REVIEW: “THE ACCOUNTANT 2”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
When I first saw 2016’s The Accountant, I didn’t remember having strong feelings for the Movie. One way or another, and when the Sequel got announced I sort of questioned why. It didn’t receive any high praise or love, and it didn’t receive vitriol neither, so a sequel nine years later was unexpected. But thanks to Screenwriter Bill Dubuque (Ozark) this latest installment makes several improvements on its predecessor. The Accountant 2 is ...
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#REVIEW: “THE LEGEND OF OCHI”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Isaiah Saxon may or may not ring a bell, but his latest effort The Legend of Ochi is one of the most beautiful live action hybrid movies in recent memory. I don’t mean it using that horrifying cross bred that Alvin and the Chipmunks use but Ochi uses animatronics, puppetry, and anything else you can think of to bring this Movie to life and my God, does it ever do it tenfold! This is as beautiful an atmosphere and world (and story but more on that ...
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#REVIEW: “SINNERS”
Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong
In Writer-Director Ryan Coogler‘s vampire musical Sinners, a pair of Michael B. Jordans (as twins Smoke and Stack) return to Mississippi to open the hottest club in town–literally. Sinners posits that great music is a double-edged sword: an eternal bridge between the past, present and future, and–unfortunately for the locals–a doorway to demonsville. As Smoke and Stack recruit the town’s finest talent for their grand opening, ...
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#REVIEW: “THE WEDDING BANQUET”
By Mr. Will Wong
But really, how do you mess with perfection? Writer and Director Andrew Ahn's remake of the 1993 classic by Ang Lee certainly has big shoes to fill and while nothing will ever top the original, he does a great job telling this iteration through a fresh lens. True, we've made progess in leaps and bounds in the acceptance of being LGBTQ since the time the original film debuted, but generational pressures and stigmas still exist to this day.
At the center of this remake, we ...
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#REVIEW: “WARFARE”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Alex Garland – the man of a thousand different ideas and concepts is back with something similar to his last outing – Civil War – but this time with a Co-Director in war veteran Ray Mendoza in the incredibly unsettling yet realistic look at war in Warfare. The Movie is one of the most unflinching, unsettling looks at war ever depicted on-screen in a non-Documentary film period. It is 90 straight minutes of one unspecific mission where Ray and ...
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#REVIEW: “DROP”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Trying to write a ‘new’ Horror movie isn’t an easy task when it seems everything under the sun has really been done already. But sometimes it’s just about the right blend of Comedy and Terror along with some well-thought performances that can make a movie stand apart from the pack. DROP thankfully, has aScript co-written by Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach (the team behind Truth or Dare and Fantasy Island) and is directed by Christopher Landon ...
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#REVIEW: “FREAKY TALES”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
With a title like FREAKY TALES, you kind of expect something weird and freaky. And Writer/Director duo Anna Fleck and Ryan Boden sort of deliver on that promise with an Anthology of four interconnected tales all taking place over the course of two nights in Oakland, California in 1987 – one involving a group of punks taking on Neo-Nazis, one involving a rap battle, one involving an aging enforcer trying to get out of the game and another involving a ...
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#REVIEW: “A NICE INDIAN BOY”
By Mr. Will Wong
Roshan Sethi's A NICE INDIAN BOY brings back the RomCom in the best way possible in a way that feels familiar, yet fresh, giving a very knowing wink all the cliches of the genre.
The story centers on Naveen (Karan Soni, who also happens to be the real-life partner of Sethi), a young Doctor who's constantly told at family weddings "he's next". Little do they know that Naveen is actually into men and a traditional Indian wedding just might not be in the cards for him. Or is ...
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