Reviews

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Avengers Endgame

The biggest issue of coming out of a movie like The Avengers Endgame is that it raises the bar so high for future franchise movies that it would almost be impossible to ever reach it, yet it is undoubtedly a very worthy conclusion for the trilogy. And with all the banter about it being over three hours, to me it …

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Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Shazzam!

Shazzam! is definitely not as popular as Superman, Batman, or Wonder Woman when it comes to the DC Comics universe but he is undoubtedly the sweetest, most innocent, and probably the funniest one in the expanding comics movie characters. Shazzam! feels like light years away from the other self-involved DC Comics characters who tend to live in a darker, bleaker, …

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Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Captain Marvel

The movie follows the story of Carol Danvers, who is destined to become one of the universe’s most powerful heroine. Captain Marvel brings the previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It took quite a while for the Marvel Universe to let a woman be at its top, so the question is did Brea Larson deliver? …

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Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Vice

When I first heard they’re making a comedy about Dick Cheney, immediately it felt like a beginning of a very bad joke, yet when I learned that the movie is going to be directed by Adam McKay, who just two years ago brought us the memorable mortgage crisis comedy, “The Big Short”, and that he convinced his star, Christian Bale, …

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Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Mary Poppins Returns

Don’t you think that some classics should receive immunity from being made into sequels? Can anyone in their right mind imagine a sequel to “Gone with the Wind” or “Westside Story” or “My Fair Lady” or “The Sound of Music” or even “Citizen Kane”? I believe “Mary Poppins” should’ve been on that list, I know Julie Andrews thought so too when …

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