#REVIEW: “ONSLAUGHT”
Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong
A hardened war vet with a sizeable gun collection in charge of a small trailer park (Adria Arjona, simmering inside and out) gets some unexpected parenting time with her little girl (adorable newcomer Blake Kennedy). Meanwhile, a mad scientist (Dan Stevens, quietly unhinged) experiments on glowy-eyed former servicemen--borderline zombies--in an attempt to create the perfect super soldier. When his experiment goes awry, the soldiers converge ...
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#REVIEW: “COYOTE VS. ACME”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Wile E. Coyote has been trying to capture the Road Runner for decades. Despite all of his meticulous planning and egregious number of ACME product purchases, he has never succeeded and always ends up getting injured. Burnt out, he happens to see an ad for a law firm specializing in cases involving faulty ACME purchases. And it’s not long after Wile E.’s lawyer Kevin Avery (Will Forte) files suit that they find out something more nefarious may be ...
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#REVIEW: “INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
In 2010, Blumhouse delivered the beloved Insidious that followed the Lambert family. That film ignited a franchise for the company with five instalments, two of which deviated from the Lamberts. We thought this franchise had come to an end in 2023 with the release of Insidious: The Red Door. This entry brought the Lamberts back and concluded their story. Now 16 years after the original’s release, Blumhouse and Writer-Director Jacob ...
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#REVIEW: “THE WRONG GIRLS”
By Mr. Will Wong
Writer/Director Dylan Meyer's Stoner Comedy THE WRONG GIRLS is a whacky escape highlighted by great chemistry between its two leads, Frankie (Kristen Stewart) and Molly (Alia Shawkat), but is that enough to keep its audience locked-in?
The Film centers on these two roommates who are barely getting by. In a case of mistaken identity, Frankie is handed a briefcase that contains a mysterious drug, which she and Molly consume - only to develop superpowers like telepathy and ...
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#REVIEW: “THE END OF OAK STREET”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
David Robert Mitchell (It Follows) returns with his latest effort, a family survival blockbuster that has a family in trouble, finding themselves in even deeper trouble. Did we mention there's dinosaurs too?
The Movie focuses on the Platt family, set in the '80s, Denise and Greg (Hathaway and McGregor) are having marital issues they’re trying to hide from their kids, Audrey and Brian (Maisy Stella and Christian Convery) but they’re doing a ...
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#REVIEW: “TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA”
Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong
Up-and-coming indie film director Kris (Hannah Einbinder) sets her sights on resurrecting the Camp Miasma slasher franchise (a riff on Friday the 13th, featuring a Trans killer). To flesh out her concept, she drives to the snowy, secluded campground of the original films for a meeting with Billy Presley (Gillian Anderson), star of the original Camp Miasma. The meeting morphs into a sleepover, and before long Kris is swimming in a ...
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#REVIEW: “TONY”
Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong
Anthony Bourdain, the legendary Chef, Writer and Documentary Host, left a legacy of countless celebrated travelogues and memoirs when he died in 2018. In 1975, Tony was--in his own words--"a spoiled, miserable, narcissistic, self-destructive and thoughtless young lout, and badly in need of a good ass-kicking." These are the same words that open Matt Johnson's hyper-specific new biopic--(and follow-up to Nirvanna The Band The Show The ...
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#REVIEW: “BATMAN: CAPED CRUSADER – SEASON 2″
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Rupert Thorne’s reign as the crime kingpin of Gotham City may be coming to an end, but the violence on the streets is only getting worse. If the GCPD have any hope of fixing things for good, then they will need to turn to and fully embrace the masked vigilante known as The Batman (Hamish Linklater).
And unlike last time, The Joker (Matthew Needham) has come to play.
I will not divulge much more specific details, but suffice to say, fans will be ...
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#REVIEW: “I WANT YOUR SEX”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Director Gregg Araki is back with his most accessible work to date.
I Want Your Sex follows Elliot (Cooper Hoffman), a Gen Z-er in desperate need of a job. To his luck, he lands a job working for the celebrated and provocative artist Erika Tracy (Olivia Wilde). Before his first week is complete, Erika proposes an enticing, yet unethical, offer to Elliot: that he become her submissive. This unprofessional relationship ...
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#REVIEW: “SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY”
Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong
The last time we saw Peter Parker at the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home, he had banished himself to a life of anonymity with a spell that saved New York and simultaneously forced everyone to forget who he was, including best friend Ned and love-of-his-life Mary Jane. It was very, very sad. But that ending was just scratching the surface. Spider-Man: Brand New Day is a two-and-a-half hour riff on the idea of a forgotten Peter Parker, and it is ...
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