Tag: Benedict Wong

Weapons

“Weapons” is a 2025 horror/mystery that everyone has been talking about. It stars Julia Garner (The Fantastic Four: First Steps), Josh Brolin (Avengers: Endgame), Cary Christopher (Days of Our Lives), Benedict Wong (Doctor Strange), and Amy Madigan (Field of Dreams).

All the kids from the same elementary class, minus one, mysteriously vanish at the exact same time in the middle of the night. Now the whole town is one edge without knowing what happened to the kids.

I originally didn’t want to see this one as I thought it looked a little weird, but I kept hearing from people how great of a movie it was, so I had to check it out. It’s cool how the movie is set up, it follows six different people’s perspectives before and after the event of the missing kids. You get a little from each person until it all comes together at the end to create the whole story. It isn’t scary but it’s a good watch and has a few good gory scenes. I wish it went a little more in depth overall, you find out what happened and why it happened, but it felt a little shallow. It does do a good job of keeping you guessing until it’s revealed what happened. I found the ending hilarious, and it was perfect poetic justice. Even though it isn’t exactly scary, it’s a fun movie though and worth checking out. I give it a 7/10,

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

This is the newest MCU movie and is the second standalone Doctor Strange movie, it stars Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange), Elizabeth Olsen (Wanda Vision), Benedict Wong (Doctor Strange), Xochitl Gomez (The Baby-Sitters Club), and Rachel McAdams (Wedding Crashers).

A girl who has the ability to travel through the multiverse winds up in Doctor Strange’s universe. She is on the run from someone trying to hunt her down and steal her powers, Doctor Strange must now put his life on the line to protect the girl. The enemy is closer than what he realizes.

This one picks up right after “Spider-Man: No Way Home” where he just gone done dabbling in the multiverse. No way home opened up a lot of doors by dabbling in the multiverse, and Doctor Strange takes the ball and runs with it here. One thing I love about the MCU movies is how they’re all connected and post endgame/infinity war, it always reference’s it and Thanos, I always get a kick out of it. I knew Wanda aka The Scarlet Witch was in it, it also teased to be star packed, including to be rumored were Blade, Ghost Hunter, Deadpool, Wolverine and others. Which we don’t get any of these. We do get a brief cameo from Professor Xavier, and John Krasinski as Mister Fantastic, so that was a cool little easter egg but that’s all we got. There’s no shortage of action, it’s just Wanda going at it against Doctor Strange and Wong. So it’s different than what I was thinking. It’s still a solid movie though. I give it a 7/10.