#REVIEW: “WHERE’D YOU GO BERNADETTE”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
The Film is a study of what creative repression does to a person’s psyche.
Bernadette Fox (Cate Blanchett) is an agoraphobic mother and wife with an intolerant personality. She typically spends her days cleaning her rundown mansion, fighting with neighbours, and picking her daughter Bee (Emma Nelson) up from school. Her repetitious life drastically changes when Bee asks for a family vacation to Antartica as her graduation present. This request ...
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#REVIEW: “BLINDED BY THE LIGHT”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Javed (Viveik Kalra) is a Pakistani teenager living in a small English town in 1987. Like the rest of his family, he works to help pay the bills. His father Malik (Kulvinder Ghir) has aspirations and dreams for his son, but Javed just wants to be a writer. After he discovers the music of Bruce Springsteen, Javed becomes determined more than ever to live life on his terms.
In a season that has given us superheroes, singing CGI lions, killer dolls, ...
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#REVIEW: “GOOD BOYS”
Review by Mr. Will Wong
Who doesn't love a good boy gone bad? Gene Stupnitsky's GOOD BOYS premiered at SXSW to warm reception earlier this earlier this year. Audiences can now enjoy the antics of three pre-teens Max (Jacob Tremblay), Thor (Jacob Tremblay) and Lucas (Keith L. Williams), known as the inseparable Bean Bag Boys. Labelled as "randoms" by the cool kids, they see an opportunity to get elevated when Max gets invited to a Kissing Party which his crush Brixlee (Millie Davis) also will ...
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#REVIEW: “47 METERS DOWN: UNCAGED”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
In 2017 Johannes Roberts made 47 Meters Down and it was received better than anticipated, a genuinely thrilling Shark Movie. Forward to today, Roberts and Co-Writer Ernest Riera are back with 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, and it is exactly what audiences could hope for in a film from the genre - suspenseful and having you on the edge of your seat, concicse and to the point. And of course some bloody shark violence, which is what everyone came for, no?
The ...
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#REVIEW: “THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE 2”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
The Angry Birds and Green Pigs were against each other in the first Film, but this time we see them come together to fight a common threat. After a gigantic ice ball parts of the Green Pig Island, they learn there’s a mysterious third island. This island is called Eagle Island and their leader, Zeta (Leslie Jones), is trying to infiltrate both pig and bird islands. This leads to the pigs and birds teaming up on a mission to deactivate the ice ball ...
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#REVIEW: “LUCE”
Review by George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
At first glance, Luce Edgar (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) may be just too perfect. Not only is he an A-student at the high school he attends in Arlington Virginia, he is a master debater and a star athlete. Beloved and respected by both teachers and students at school, his adoptive white parents, Amy and Peter (Naomi Watts and Tim Roth) could not be more proud of him and his accomplishments thus far. Ten years ago, they brought this seven year-old former child ...
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#REVIEW: “LIGHT OF MY LIFE”
Review by George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
In Casey Affleck’s directorial debut LIGHT OF MY LIFE, we eventually learn, without ever really know how or why, that a global plague had wiped out the female population. This knowledge helps the audience understand the movie’s opening – an overlong, uncut scene of a father (played by Affleck) and eleven year-old daughter (Anna Pniowsky) facing each other in sleeping bags as he tells her a made up fairy tale with tones of Noah’s ark. Affleck is ...
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#REVIEW: “SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
It’s Halloween in 1968. Stella (Zoe Margaret Colletti) and her friends are on the run from bullies and end up at the boarded-up mansion where Sarah Bellows used to live. Bellows is a local myth and stories abound about her being involved with multiple disappearances. The group stumble upon a book that belonged to Sarah, and not so soon after, notice that it has a mind of its own – writing grotesque stories in blood before their very eyes, all ...
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#REVIEW: “THE KITCHEN”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
The Kitchen follows three wives of New York City Irish gangsters in the late 1970s. When one of the jobs their husbands were working on goes wrong they are arrested and placed in prison for 3 years. With no income to provide for themselves and their families, the women, Kathy (Melissa McCarthy), Ruby (Tiffany Haddish), and Claire (Elisabeth Moss) take matters into their own hands and begin operating the Irish Hell’s Kitchen gang.
This is a gritty ...
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#REVIEW: “DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Dora (Isabela Moner) is no longer a child explorer on television, but an enthusiastic teenage explorer on the big screen. However, although Dora is grown up her parents (Eva Longoria and Michael Peña) still think of her as their young girl. So when they embark on a quest to discover a lost Incan civilization they send her to California to stay with her cousin Diego (Jeff Wahlberg). But when Dora doesn’t hear from her parents for an extended period ...
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