by Pat Wong | Sep 2, 2016 | Entertainment, Featured, Movies, Pat Wong, Pop Culture
“We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.” – Willy Wonka When I heard the news of Gene Wilder’s passing, I immediately thought of his portrayal of Willy Wonka in Mel Stuart’s Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), which is the film...
by Pat Wong | Jun 24, 2016 | Entertainment, Featured, Movies, Pat Wong
“Look, I really don’t think they flew 90 billion light years to come down here and start a fight. Get all rowdy.” – Captain Steven Hiller Independence Day (1996), also known as ID4, is one of the iconic science fiction, B level, action films from my childhood...
by Pat Wong | Jun 16, 2016 | Featured, Movies, Pat Wong, Sports
“This was supposed to be the fight that Muhammad Ali was ended. Supposed the myth that Muhammad was gonna fall! Supposed to be my destruction! Well, they miscalculated. They misjudged. They got it wrong!” – Muhammad Ali In the movie Gladiator, Maximus addresses his...
by Pat Wong | May 6, 2016 | Entertainment, Featured, Movies, Pat Wong
“See, I took a seat on the Council not because I wanted to but because Nick [Fury] asked me to, because we were both realists. We knew that despite all the diplomacy and the handshaking and the rhetoric, that to build a really better world sometimes means having to...
by Pat Wong | Apr 19, 2016 | Entertainment, Featured, Movies, Pat Wong
“No, I don’t want your suffering, I don’t want your future!” – Charles Xavier X-Men: First Class (“First Class”) is a fantastic prequel to the original X-Men film trilogy. After the lukewarm reception to the final film in the original trilogy, X-Men: The Last Stand;...
by Pat Wong | Mar 10, 2016 | Entertainment, Featured, Movies, Pat Wong
“But let’s do a head count here: your brother the demi-god; a super soldier, a living legend who kind of lives up to the legend; a man with breath-taking anger management issues; a couple of master assassins, and YOU, big fella, you’ve managed to piss off...
