#REVIEW: “BALLERINA”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Eve Macarro (Oscar-nominee Ana de Armas) was orphaned as a young girl and has taken up training to be an assassin with the Ruska Roma clan. When she learns details about her fatherâs murder, she swears revenge and will not stop for anyone until she gets it â including the legendary Baba Yaga himself, John Wick (Keanu Reeves).
BALLERINA, or From the World of John Wick: Ballerina if youâre not into the whole brevity thing, is for better and worse, ...
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#REVIEW: “THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME”
Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong
Hundreds of immaculate, symmetrical compositions. Production Design as large and lavish as it is whimsical. An endless parade of A-listers cramming as many deadpan jokes as possible into their limited pockets of screen time. A distant father learning how to be *slightly* more emotionally available to his children. Have you guessed I'm reviewing the new Wes Anderson movie yet? The Phoenician Scheme, his latest dazzling dollhouse, fits snuggly with ...
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#REVIEW: “THE LIGHT BEFORE THE SUN”
By Mr. Will Wong
Having premiered at the Hamilton Film Festival last October, the Blue Mountain Film Festival this week, and now ImagineNATIVE's Short Film Program: Living in Two Worlds, Director Michael Greyeyes returns with an enthralling 30-minute short film, THE LIGHT BEFORE THE SUN. It is written by Canadian Comedy Award winner Rob Baker, with a story created by Tamara Podemski (seen currently in Apple TV+'s MURDERBOT, Prime Video's Outer Range) and Jamie Thomas King (Showtime's THE ...
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#REVIEW: “DANGEROUS ANIMALS”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Making a shark movie is always going to inevitably compared to the greatest shark movie of all time, Jaws. Whether or not if itâs a fair comparison or not. Thankfully though, the only comparisons between Dangerous Animals and Jaws is the fact that there are sharks - and the resemblance ends there. Nick Lepard gets his first credited Screenplay in a big way here, bringing new terrors to the water, and itâs the humans that are arguably the most ...
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#REVIEW: “KARATE KID: LEGENDS”
Review by Mr. Will Wong
There already have been remakes and spinoffs of this timeless David and Goliath tale, but what makes Jonathan Entwistle's latest reboot different and unique?
KARATE KID: LEGENDS comes at a time when fans of the franchise are getting ready to say goodbye to what has been a very successful branch-off of its legacy in series COBRA KAI. It centers on Li Fong (Ben Wang) who together with his mother (Ming-Na Wen) move to New York City after coping with some trauma back in ...
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#REVIEW: “BRING HER BACK’
Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong
Danny and Michael Philippou burst onto the Horror scene with their feature debut Talk to Me in 2022, a cult hit that yielded a sequel deal almost immediately. The premise was arguably the star of the show: a severed hand that possesses its victims--y'know, nothing too crazy--except the horrifying appendage is relentlessly exploited for viral internet fame by a group of obnoxious Aussie teens! What made Talk to Me truly a cut above your standard ...
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#REVIEW: “JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Writer-Director Laura Piani brings us this cute, funny new Rom-Com.
Agathe (Camille Rutherford) lives in the fantasy world of a Jane Austen novel. She wants to have a sweeping romance like those which Austen wrote about. However, it never seems to come along. Another dream of hers is to become a Writer, but sadly she suffers from severe writer's block. By day, she works in a bookstore with her longtime friend FĂŠlix (Pablo Pauly). Unbeknownst to ...
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#REVIEW: “HURRY UP TOMORROW”
By Mr. Will Wong
Meant as a companion piece to global superstar The Weekndâs record-setting sixth studio album of the same name, HURRY UP TOMORROW is a psychological Thriller that sees Abel Tesfaye playing a fictionalized version of himself. Trey Edward Shults (Waves) directs this highly-stylized odyssey, blurring reality from drug-induced fantasy.
Abel is spiralling from a breakup with his girlfriend (Riley Keough), unable to reach her despite leaving her many messages. He must ...
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#REVIEW: âMISSION: IMPOSSIBLE â THE FINAL RECKONINGâ
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Nuclear Armageddon is imminent because of âThe Entityâ, a rogue AI program, and Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team are the only ones who can stop it. That is the mission, if they choose to accept it.
Of course, the devil is in the needlessly complicated and outrageously elaborate details so nothing is easy and every plan must hinge on literal millisecond timing â but after 29 years and seven films, should anyone really expect that MISSION: ...
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#REVIEW: “FINAL DESTINATION BLOODLINES”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
The Franchise about cheating death had died... or so we thought. There really was no way there wouldnât be excitement for a new Final Destination movie, but with Final Destination Bloodlines, we have genuinely, the best entry into the Series, breaking the mold and upping the stakes tenfold.
Co-Directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein who were behind 2018âs Freaks and Writer Lori Evans Taylor and Guy Busick, the latter of which wrote Ready or Not, ...
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