#REVIEW: “7 DAYS IN ENTEBBE”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Since the 50s, Palestinians have created the Freedom Fighter movement against the Israelis. Yet, the Israelis labeled these Freedom Fighter movements as acts of terrorism. 7 Days in Entebbe tells the story of one week in 1976 when the Freedom Fighters hijacked an Air France flight that was travelling from Tel Aviv to Paris. They managed to divert the plane to Entebbe, Uganda where they held 106 people hostage in one airport terminal. Quickly, the ...
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#REVIEW: “THOROUGHBREDS”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Olivia Cooke and Anya Taylor-Joy deliver perfect rapport and razor-sharp performances.
Thoroughbreds follows the slow building friendship of audaciously privileged teenagers Amanda (Olivia Cooke) and Lily (Anya Taylor-Joy). After Amanda commits a debatably heinous act and surrenders to who she really is, she becomes an outcast in her suburban Connecticut neighbourhood. When her mother sets up study-dates, or play-dates as Amanda describes them, with ...
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#REVIEW: “THE STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
The Strangers: Prey At Night follows a family while on a road trip to send their angst-ridden teenage daughter Kinsey (Bailee Madison) to boarding school. One night Kinsey, her parents Cindy (Christina Hendricks) and Mike (Martin Henderson) and her brother (Lewis Pullman) spend a night in a seemingly-deserted mobile home park. But when three psychopathic strangers in masks show up, the family is forced to endure a night of terror.
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#REVIEW: “A WRINKLE IN TIME”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
A Wrinkle In Time is based on the Novel of the same name by Madeleine L’Engle. The Story follows teenager Meg Murry (Storm Reid) and her little brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe). Their ambitious scientific father (Chris Pine) disappeared four years ago when he went searching for new planets using a concept called a Tesseract to travel there. When three mysterious women, called Mrs. Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon), Mrs. Who (Mindy Kaling) and Mrs. ...
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#REVIEW: “LADY AND THE TRAMP” BLU-RAY COMBO PACK MULTI-SCREEN EDITION
It literally has been years since we've seen the classic LADY AND THE TRAMP, but we're thrilled we got a chance to reconnect with it once again in its Blu-ray Combo Pack Multi-Screen Edition. As a child we didn't realize how visceral a moviegoing experience the Film was, but seeing it again now brought back all those fond memories and struck a chord even more emotionally now in our adult years.
The unlikely romantic tale centering on English Spaniel named Lady (Barbara Luddy) and a stray ...
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#REVIEW: “RED SPARROW”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
When the Trailer for Francis Lawrence’s Red Sparrow first dropped, many thought “Wow, this looks like the Black Widow Movie we’ve all been waiting for.”. Before we get any further, we need to clarify right here for those who haven't read the 2013 Jason Matthews Novel on which this is based, this is NOT Black Widow and bears little resemblance to that Comic Book character. The repeated scenes of rape and graphic torture ensure we know ...
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#REVIEW: “DEATH WISH”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Dr. Paul Kersey (Bruce Willis) is a successful surgeon living with his family in suburban Chicago. During a botched burglary, his wife is murdered and his daughter is assaulted and left in a coma. With no leads in the police investigation, Kersey decides to take the law into his own hands as a vigilante.
Despite its grim subject matter, this remake of Death Wish is entertaining enough on the surface. Director Eli Roth uses his background in Horror ...
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#REVIEW: “ANNIHILATION”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Lena (Natalie Portman), a biologist and professor, has finally started moving on after the disappearance of her soldier husband Kane (Oscar Isaac). When he suddenly reappears, she is elated but knows something is wrong. The pair get brought into a secure facility, where Lena learns that her husband was the only survivor from a team sent into “The Shimmer” – a classified environmental disaster zone. Wanting to save her husband, Lena joins a new ...
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#REVIEW: “EVERY DAY”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
From the Director of The Vow and the Screenwriter of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl comes a Teen-Romance that on paper looks like a W Network Movie of the Week, but surprisingly is better than anyone could’ve expected. Every Day is The Notebook meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers if the latter were a little more Freaky Friday. Sucsy creates a world that truly is engaging and thought-provoking. The Film is the perfect Rom-Com that should’ve been ...
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REVIEW: “GAME NIGHT”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
A group of friends meet for a weekly game night at the home of Max (Jason Bateman) and Annie (Rachel McAdams). Max’s overbearing and overachieving brother Brooks (Kyle Chandler) joins the group one week, and then invites them over to his house for his own game night. He plans a murder mystery for the group, but ends up getting kidnapped for real. Thinking it is all part of the game, the group starts combing through clues about his disappearance – ...
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