This is the much anticipated big screen coupling between Brad Pitt and Academy Award Winner, Marion Cotillard, which doesn’t disappoint visually but falls flat when it comes to chemistry. Director Robert Zemeckis is a great visual master and Allied is no exception. Creating the World War II era Morocco and England was carefully crafted and looks stunningly believable, but what does not come across is sense of urgency, the drama and tragic outcome that fails to impact. It almost feels like Zemeckis gets …
Read More »Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Disney’s Moana
Disney Animation has produced yet another master piece with the studio’s fifty-sixth animated movie, Moana. This Polynesian mythological story that was totally re-written for this CG Animated flick, and as has been the case with other Disney flicks now will be forever be engraved in people’s mind as fact. Moana, the twelfth princess in the Disney Universe and the first …
Read More »Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Rules Don’t Apply
Following his 15 years absence from the big screen, actor-director-writer, Warren Beatty, is back at age 79 portraying legendary eccentric business mogul, Howard Hughes. Beatty, is already ten years older today than the age when Hughes passed away but that did not stop him from casting himself in that role… being he is the director and could choose whoever he wanted. The one …
Read More »Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them definitely feels like a first scene from a movie that someone at the studios said about: let’s burn the $180 million on the screen and do it so that everyone can see exactly how much money we burnt on this production. Even though every few seconds something new explodes, implodes, or comes out …
Read More »Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange is the newest addition to the Marvel Universe to hit the big screen. As much as I wanted to follow the story, I feel the plot got a bit too complicated. The one thing Doctor Strange has got going for it itself is having an exquisite British import, Benedict Cumberbatch, in the lead, which raises the bar for the whole …
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