#REVIEW: “THE SHACK”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
Director Stuart Hazeldine’s new Movie, The Shack, makes no bones about the fact that is about religion – specifically Christianity. The Movie stars Octavia Spencer, Avraham Aviv Alush and Sumire Matsubara as the personification of the Holy Trinity. Spencer’s Papa (as God as familiarly referred to) invites Mack (Sam Worthington) to a shack for the weekend to discuss matters of faith and forgiveness. In order to accept Papa into his heart, Mack ...
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#REVIEW: “LOGAN”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
Fans of Marvel Comics and the X-Men franchise have been waiting for a good Wolverine Movie for a long time now. They have suffered through bad origin tales and bare-bones storytelling. Unlike the character he plays, Hugh Jackman is getting older and his window to play an un-aging comic book character felt like it was getting smaller. This is why Mark Millar’s incredibly popular 2008 Graphic Novel Old Man Logan seemed destined for the big screen. ...
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#REVIEW: “BEFORE I FALL”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
It’s a mix between Mean Girls and Groundhog Day for a new generation, with an important message.
Before I Fall follows Samantha Kingston (Zoey Deutch) who has everything she could want going through high school: she’s popular, beautiful, has the most drooled after boyfriend and has a close knit of popular best friends. When she wakes up on February 12 she goes about her day as usual until she realizes its her last. Yet, she wakes up again only ...
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#REVIEW: “GET OUT”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
The trailer for Get Out debuted this past October, and I was at a loss for words after watching it. Was this an actual Feature Film, or some slickly-made prank? Who would bankroll such an audacious and wild vision? I looked into it further and discovered the Film was quite real and was the deranged product of comedian Jordan Peele. But despite my fondness for Key and Peele and being one of the fifteen people who actually watched Keanu in the theatre ...
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#REVIEW: “A UNITED KINGDOM”
Set amidst apartheid in Bechuanaland (now known as Botswana), A United Kingdom from Director Amma Asante (Belle) centers on the true story of its first President Sir Seretse Khama (David Oyelowo) and First Lady Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike). The two meet and fall in love in London, although duty calls Seretse to return to his African kingdom where both he and Ruth are faced with great disapproval from its people, his family and the British government towards their relationship, an ...
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#REVIEW: “THE GREAT WALL”
Review by Jonathan Godfrey for Mr. Will Wong
The marriage of Chinese and American cinema was inevitable. Shortly after Americans were educated on motion photography in the 1880s, the Chinese were taught the same techniques in the 1890s. Over the next 100+ years, these two countries would develop the most lucrative, privately-funded Film industries in the world. Both countries have thrived artistically and financially, and over the last few decades their relationship has elevated ...
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#REVIEW: “FIST FIGHT”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Charlie Day saves the day.
Fist Fight follows an overly-polite high school English teacher named Andy Campbell (Charlie Day) dealing with out-of-control senior class pranks, a dysfunctional administration, job cuts, a pregnant wife at home, and his daughter’s talent show all on the last day of the school year. But when Campbell tries to save his job he ends up getting the toughest and scariest colleague, Ron Strickland (Ice Cube), fired. This ...
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#REVIEW: “A CURE FOR WELLNESS”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Ambitious corporate executive Lockhart (Dane DeHaan) is on the rise at his company on Wall Street. After discovering illegal activities, his superiors task him with retrieving the company’s CEO Pembroke (Harry Groener) from a “wellness centre” in the Swiss Alps and bringing him back to the United States to sign an impending deal. But Lockhart is immediately suspicious of the spa and the facility’s director, Dr. Heinreich Volmer (Jason Isaacs) ...
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#REVIEW: “XX”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
This past January, the female-led horror anthology XX was unleashed on audiences at the Sundance Film Festival. The idea behind the Film is simple -- four unconnected stories about women, directed by female Filmmakers and starring female Leads.
Each of the Films are between 10-20 minutes in length, and are each very different in style and scope: The Box concerns a family slowly starving themselves for mysterious reasons; The Birthday Party involves ...
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#REVIEW: “JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2”
Review by Jonathan Godfrey for Mr. Will Wong
Bad men have a boogeyman and his name is John Wick. Like a pale horse rider he kills the wild beasts of the earth… and his efforts are far from exhausted. John Wick: Chapter 2 begins where the first Film left off, with John in pursuit of his stolen car. Like the first Film, John engages in knife fights, gun fights, and fist fights of the first order. Keanu Reeves underwent five more months of training to endure John’s latest outing, and the ...
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