#REVIEW: “GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
The last time these beloved monsters shared the screen was in 2021's Godzilla vs. Kong. That battle brought Kong to his limits and forced him to live in Hollow Earth, while Godzilla remains on Earth fighting the monsters humanity isn’t capable to beat. Just as the title suggests, the monsters are back, along with Director and Co-Writer Adam Wingard, but this time around the duo team up to fight a common enemy.
The first signs on Earth that a ...
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#REVIEW: “THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS”
By Mr. Will Wong
Toronto's Fawzia Mirza has crafted an accomplished debut feature in THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS, which premiered at TIFF '23 to raves. The semi-autobiographical film, which saw previous incarnations as a stage play and a short film, is based on fact and fantasy and told through a unique lens.
The Comedy centers on Azra (one of two roles played by Amrit Kaur), a young gay Pakistani-Canadian woman who learns of her father's abrupt passing back home. She must travel home to send her ...
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#REVIEW: “ROAD HOUSE”
By Mr. Will Wong
If you've seen the 1989 original cult classic on which Doug Liman's ROAD HOUSE is based upon, you will come to love the brute action and laughs in this remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal. It is pure, mindless fun.
Dalton is an ex-UFC fighter who is trying to escape his past and finds himself in the Glass Keys at a rough and tumble bar. He takes on a job as bouncer they rather need the help. Ben Brandt (Billy Magnussen) is out to carry-out his criminal father's work, trying to ...
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#REVIEW: “IMMACULATE”
Sydney Sweeney's a nun on the run--or rather--a nun in training, fleeing her mysterious past, settling into a remote Italian convent. The longer she stays, the more apparent it becomes that most of the other nuns aren't particularly happy. It turns out this convent has a habit of torturing and killing its members, particularly the ones who want to escape, and thanks to some divine intervention--let's just say it involves a kind of conception that plays into the very apt title--she's on track to ...
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#REVIEW: “LOVE LIES BLEEDING”
Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong
New Mexico. Lou (Kristen Stewart) keeps a watchful eye on her sister (Jena Malone)'s abusive marriage to JJ (Dave Franco) while their dad--also Lou (Sr.)--(Ed Harris) runs a criminal organization out of the back of his shooting range. They may not know it, but the situation's a gasoline-drenched car, and Jackie (Katy O'Brian)--a competitive bodybuilder running from a mysterious past--is the molotov cocktail needed to blow the whole thing ...
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#REVIEW: “FRENCH GIRL”
By Mr. Will Wong
As the era of the Rom-Com remains a thing of the past, FRENCH GIRL defiantly reminds us how much we miss the genre.
Co-Writers and Co-Directors Nicolas Wright and James A. Woods pay tribute to their families and upbringing in this charming story, set in their hometown of Quebec City. We meet Gordon (Zac Braff), who accompanies his girlfriend Sophie (Evelyne Brochu) back home to her family farm, where he meets her family for the first time. Things get off a fumbling ...
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#REVIEW: “DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS”
By Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong
A gang of dangerous men chase after a mysterious briefcase, but due to an absentminded mixup in transit, the precious macguffin falls into the unwitting hands of two young women (Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan) on a queer coming-of-age roadtrip to Tallahassee. Mistaken identities, incompetent cops, brutal-yet-zany murders, and gangsters butting heads over fundamental differences of personality--just some of the entreés on the menu ...
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#REVIEW: “DUNE: PART TWO”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
The people of House Atreides have been wiped out on the spice mining planet of Arrakis. Survivors Paul (Timothée Chalamet) and his pregnant Mother Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) are now living amongst the native Fremen. Paul is intent on learning their ways and how they use the desert to their advantage, while also getting closer to the literal woman of his dreams, Chani (Zendaya). He is also looking for revenge against competing House Harkonnen and ...
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#REVIEW: “BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE”
By Mr. Will Wong
Director Reinaldo Marcus Green already has proven that he is a superb storyteller and 2021's KING RICHARD speaks for itself, going on to garner widespread acclaim and Oscar glory. He's back exploring another fascinating subject matter in BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE, but does lightning strike again for the talented Filmmaker?
Green teams with Screenwriters Terence Winter, Frank E. Flowers and Zach Baylin and we begin by witnessing the iconic Singer-Songwriter on the verge of ...
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#REVIEW: “LISA FRANKENSTEIN”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Lisa (Kathryn Newton) is a Goth introvert who spends her free time doodling in an abandoned graveyard. She does not get along with her new family and a freak storm has just re-animated a Corpse (Cole Sprouse) she may have been crushing on.
This is the set-up for LISA FRANKENSTEIN, a movie that takes place in 1989 and gleefully homages the decade’s eternally popular coming-of-age, self discovery genre by way of Tim Burton’s brand of macabre. The ...
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