#REVIEW: “ONLY THE BRAVE”
Review by Jonathan Godfrey for Mr. Will Wong
Most heroes go unnoticed. Only so many stories are written. Only so many films are made. The story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots is an important one, and Only the Brave tells it cinematically.
Director Joseph Kosinski does a good job balancing the beauty of ILMs effects with the performances of his leading men, and woman. Josh Brolin plays Eric Marsh, a bullheaded man from North Carolina who feels the call to fight fires in Arizona. There he ...
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#REVIEW: “TYLER PERRY’S BOO 2! A MADEA HALLOWEEN”
Madea is the gift that keeps giving. Hot off the 2016 success that was Tyler Perry's Boo! A Madea Halloween, mashing-up the bankable Franchise's signature humour with a dash of horror, moviegoers have shown their relentless devotion to the brainchild starring, written, produced and directed by Tyler Perry.
This latest installment in the Series sees Brian's (Perry) daughter Tiffany (Diamond White) celebrate her 18th birthday. While she has plans to capture the attentions of a fraternity hunk in ...
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#REVIEW: “GEOSTORM”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
After extreme natural disasters ravage the Earth, multiple countries band together to create a network of satellites to control the weather. Years later, the satellites are malfunctioning and attacking various parts of the world. With nowhere to turn, the US government calls-in disgraced former space station commander Jake Lawson (Gerard Butler) to figure out what is going on – before the titular catastrophe destroys everything on Earth.
Without ...
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#REVIEW: “UNA”
Based on the stageplay Blackbird, Benedict Andrew's Una has been in the wings for quite some time after doing the festival rounds in 2016. While lagging in its pacing until late, the Drama which has the leanings of a Thriller, garners our attention based on the strength of its performances from leads Rooney Mara and Ben Mendolsohn.
The Film centers on a young woman, Una (Mara), in search of answers after having had no closure for several years. At the tender age of 13 she is promised love and ...
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#REVIEW: “THE FOREIGNER”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
In the opening minutes of The Foreigner, Quan Ngoc Minh (Jackie Chan) watches as the dress shop where is daughter (Katie Leung) is shopping is blown-up as collateral damage from an origination identifying itself as the Authentic IRA bombing of a nearby bank. Devastated by the loss of his only remaining family member, Quan goes on a mission to discover those responsible. His investigations bring him to Northern Irish politician Liam Hennessy (Pierce ...
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#REVIEW: “MARK FELT: THE MAN WHO BROUGHT DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
A President under fire from Congress and the media turns to backdoor deals with the FBI to clean-up his messes. His efforts to change the national conversation are thwarted when someone close to the situation talks to the media and the men in charge at the FBI, including a man everyone describes as a boy scout with a strict moral code, cannot find the leak. Despite what you may think, I am not discussing recent events in the United States but rather ...
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#REVIEW: “GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
The basics about Winnie the Pooh are well-known: Christopher Robin was based on a real boy, and the bear shared his name with a proud Canadian city. It turns out the one piece of that story we were all missing was the utter misery the real Christopher Robin’s felt about the books. In Goodbye Christopher Robin, Screenwriters Frank Cottrell Boyce and Simon Vaughan introduce the world to a dysfunctional family and a deeply-unhappy little boy.
Upon his ...
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#REVIEW: “HAPPY DEATH DAY”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) wakes up in a stranger’s dorm room after a late night of drinking. Embarrassed, she leaves and spends the day trying to forget it is her birthday. On her way to a party that evening, she is murdered. She wakes up in bed moments later and has déjà vu as she plays out the same events as the previous day, including getting murdered. And then it happens again. Rather quickly, Tree realizes she will not stop reliving the ...
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#REVIEW: “THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (NEW AND SELECTED)”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Think Noah Baumbach’s The Royal Tenenbaums but even more next-level. The Meyerowitz Stores (New and Selected) is a Family Drama focused on three children, their relationship with each other and their father. Something in this Film. While feeling very much familiar like the rest of Baumbach’s work, this arguably is his greatest and most ambitious project to date. Netflix certainly is stamping itself a new player in the Awards Season race and The ...
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#REVIEW: “BREATHE”
Andy Serkis' directorial debut is an ambitious one, but is able to soar emotionally thanks to its phenomenal leads.
Produced by Jonathan Cavendish (Bridget Jones Series), Breathe is based on the true story of his father Robin (Andrew Garfield), a British World War II veteran who sadly is crippled by Polio at the age of 28. Defiant about remaining in the confines of a hospital, he and wife Diana (Claire Foy) go against the wish of their doctors taking his respirator home knowing well that he ...
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