#REVIEW: “A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
As I await the birth of my first child, I find myself asking many questions about who I am now and what kind of parent I am going to be. This might seem trivial, but it explains the headspace I was in when I sat down to watch A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. The film centers around Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys), a young Journalist tasked with writing a profile piece on Mister Rogers (Tom Hanks). Vogel has a strained relationship with his father, Jerry ...
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#REVIEW: “21 BRIDGES”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Director Brian Kirk and Writers Adam Mervis and Matthew Michael Carnahan work together to create a thrilling action-packed Cop Drama that truly packs a punch. 21 Bridges has a stellar Cast that truly shines through and delivers an electrifying ride for the audience as we try to uncover the twists and turns the Movie keeps hitting the audience with.
Michael (Toronto's Stephan James) and Ray (Taylor Kitsch) roll-up to a restaurant ready to take the ...
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#REVIEW: “FROZEN 2”
By George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
2013's FROZEN, based loosely on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen went onto both stratospheric commercial success and Oscars glory, branded a classic not only in the animated realm. Forget all about how the children absolutely loved it; curmudgeons light up and were unbale "let it go"! It had to have been daunting for Disney to come up with a Sequel worthy as a successor. Not only did they do this, succeeded wildly!
FROZEN 2 opens with ...
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#REVIEW: “THE GOOD LIAR”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Betty (Helen Mirren) is recently widowed and looking for companionship. She makes an online dating profile and matches with Roy (Ian McKellen). They meet for a date and are easily smitten with each other. Their relationship grows quickly and before long, Roy has moved in with her. But what Betty does not know is that Roy is a life-long con man – and she is his latest mark.
The Trailers for The Good Liar portrayed the Film as a clever and twisty ...
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#REVIEW: “CHARLIE’S ANGELS”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Hello Angels, I am a product of the early 90s and loved cheesey Action Flicks and the 2000/2003 Charlie’s Angels films were essentially that. However, with Elizabeth Banks behind the camera and penning, she takes what made Charlie’s Angels great, removing the camp and made it a real bona fide badass Action Flick, with some amazing talent, resulting in a genuinely great world-building Feature.
The Movie centres around Elena (Naomi Scott) who is a ...
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#REVIEW: “DOCTOR SLEEP”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
“Here’s Johnny!” Unless you grew up watching Johnny Carson on late night, chances are you immediately thought of Jack Nicholson peeking his head through a broken door frame – or you pictured any number of the parodies that followed. That moment and many others from The Shining have been burned into the collective minds of multiple generations. And while the Film inspired multiple readings and theories, we never saw a followup in the nearly ...
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#REVIEW: “LAST CHRISTMAS”
Review by Mr. Will Wong
LAST CHRISTMAS aims to taking some tried, tested and true ways at tackling the heartfelt Holiday Rom-Com with a few new angles, but depends perhaps a bit too much on the charm of its stars than the strength of its story.
Kate (Emilia Clarke) just can't help but keep making bad decisions. Practically homeless, she struggles to maintain her job at a Christmas decoration shop owned by Santa (Michelle Yeoh) and also find a real keeper in a boyfriend. She drinks too much, ...
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#REVIEW: “MIDWAY”
Review by George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
MIDWAY opens with a scene of a large number of shirtless men doing calisthenics aboard a naval warship then segues into scenes of sailors filled with bluster, macho-posturing and insults. This when we also meet the main character, the rea-life fighter pilot, Dick Best. As portrayed by Ed Skrein (Game of Thrones, Deadpool), he’s a cocky daredevil who likes to disable his plane on training runs, evoking fear in his flying partner. Then, out of nowhere, ...
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#REVIEW: “THE IRISHMAN”
Review by George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
Martin Scorsese is back with a vengeance. Working from Charles Brandt's book on Frank Sheeran, I Heard You Paint Houses and adapted for the screen by Steven Zaillian (Schindler’s List), this master Director has assembled a triumvirate of actors (one was coaxed from semi-retirement) and created a film of such magnitude that it must be seen and savoured. THE IRISHMAN, with its running time of 210 minutes, may be one of filmdom’s greatest gangster ...
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#REVIEW: “ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD” – QUENTIN TARANTINO, LEONARDO DICAPRIO AND BRAD PITT LIVE IN CONVERSATION
By George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
We were thrilled to be invited to attend a special screening of Quentin Tarantino’s latest epic, ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD followed by a live streamed moderated panel discussion with the Director and its stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie.
As always, Tarantino was effervescent and exuberant. His inspiration for making this Movie was that he was making a movie with an older actor (that he would not name) and one day he watched him ...
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