When I took my kids to see Trolls, I was hoping to get a well-deserved nap, but instead, I got a movie that taught kids and adults alike, about the pursuit of happiness. Those fluffy trolls, who like to hug every thirty minutes on the clock, are just too adorable. And might I add that the CGI animation has really …
Read More »Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Inferno
This is the third movie based on the Dan Brown bestseller by the same name, following “The Da Vinci Code” and “Angels & Demons,” in what was promised to be a trilogy. Tom Hanks is back as Robert Langdon, the art historian and cryptologist, who is attempting to save the world from a virus designed by our reigning villain who …
Read More »Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Keeping Up with the Joneses
The resemblance of this flick to Mr. and Mrs. Smith is uncanny, however the coupling of Don Drapper and Wonderwoman aka Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot is not only as visually stunning as Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt but funny too, as two undercover spies trying to blend-in in suburbia. Its true we have seen those type of movies a …
Read More »Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Tim Burton is back after a two-year absence, directing an adaptation to the best-selling novel from 2012, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, which truly feels like the perfect fit for this visionary director: telling a story that blends between realities and spans between worlds and time. He has done that kind of flicks so many times he could already …
Read More »Ron Jacobsohn Reviews The Magnificent Seven
MGM decided to remake the 1960 classic western “The Magnificent Seven” and although it did leave the storyline in the 2016 version identical to the original one, for some odd reason the filmmakers decided to make this a politically correct western having cast members from all ethnicities, kinda like remaking “Boyz’N the Hood” with an all-white cast. So in the …
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