#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: “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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#REVIEW: “HER PRIVATE HELL”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest takes us to a neon-lit futuristic metropolis with streets full of a dense fog that harbours a macabre urban legend.
We follow actor Elle (Sophie Thatcher), who has a strange relationship with her Director father Johnny (Dougray Scott). Elle returns to her father’s skyscraper apartment with the promise of filming his next project. However, Johnny quickly informs her that he will be departing on a journey. ...
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#REVIEW: “THE ODYSSEY”
By Mr. Will Wong
Giving us themes of hope, resilience and civility, The Odyssey is a perfect film that the world is in dire need of right now. Visionary Christopher Nolan goes big in his latest effort, tackling the never-ending tension between fate versus human agency here on the grandest scale, with an A-List Cast. The epic action-fantasy is an uplifting reminder, as it says in the Film itself, civilization will rise again.
The story centers on heroic Odysseus (Matt Damon) whom after ...
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#REVIEW: “EVIL DEAD BURN”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Thirteen years ago, Fede Alvarez showed us that Evil Dead didn’t need to be campy fun, and gave us one of the most sadistic and brutal Evil Dead movies to date. Three years ago Lee Cronin gave us a more disturbing and visceral Evil Dead with Evil Dead Rise, but Fede’s vision still remained the crème of the crop in the new installments, now we have Sebastien Vanicek’s Evil Dead Burn which may be the most gnarly and gruesome evil dead yet, brings ...
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