Category: Reviews

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Bridget Jones’s Baby

Everyone I talked to about this movie immediately was asking “do we really need another Bridget Jones” fifteen years later… I say what does it matter how many years later as long as it’s a fun experience and I really had a good time watching “Bridget Jones’s Baby” and there is a very good reason why… Sharon Maguire who directed the first film, but not the second one is back at the helm but more importantly the trio behind the script is original author Helen Fielding, Borat scriber Dan Mazer and Oscar winner Emma Thompson, who naturally wrote herself some of the funniest lines in the movie.
The premise has Bridget getting pregnant and confused over who did it. Leave it to Bridgit to make this tragic misfortune into a laugh out loud comedy with plenty of OMG moments.
Joining the cast or regulars is Doctor McDreamy himself, Patrick Dempsey, who is so much more fitting in the role of prince charming than the tragic Derek Sheppard of Grey’s Anatomy.
I still can’t get used to Renee Zellwegger’s unbearable British accent but the whole circus going on around her for 123-minutes makes you forget it after a while.
I predict this flick having a much longer shelf life on home entertainment as our big screens tend to make a lot more money these days with those 3D/Imax type of movies where things explode every few seconds.
I know I am probably going to be in a minority here, but I am giving this one a THUMBS UP!!!

September 16, 2016
Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Clint Eastwood’s Sully

It was just a matter of time that the “Miracle on the Hudson River” story of Captain Sully Sullenberger from two-thousand-and-nine would become a Hollywood movie, but it took for a very sensitive director like Clint Eastwood to take the story and not make it into a Hollywood blockbuster.

In “Sully”, Eastwood tells the story in a very subtle almost realistic way and with two time Oscar winner, Tom Hanks, as the lead you know you gonna get a performance of a lifetime.
The movie is being told truthfully and with real life cameos that make you almost forget you are watching a movie. I loved this movie for its portrayal of a larger than life hero in an honest and genuine way. And may I how refreshing it was to watch an awards movie where the filmmaker can actually tell his whole story in ninety-five-minute.
“Sully” is already making the festival circles and gearing serious Oscar buzz and the fact that real life captain Sullenberger is part of the publicity campaign can never hurt, as we all love a great American hero’s.
This is a no-brainer, I give it a THUMBS-UP!

September 9, 2016
Ron Jacobsohn Reviews A Tale of Love & Darkness

Today, I want to talk to you about a movie, which really left an impact on me.
It’s called “A Tale of Love and Darkness” and its Oscar winner, Natalie Portman, directorial debut.
Portman is known for taking upon herself complex characters as an actress, so it shouldn’t really come as a big surprise that as a director she did the exact same thing.
In A Tale of Love and Darkness, Portman goes back to her Israeli roots, adapting a very personal autobiographical book by renowned author Amos Oz, who is even doing a few cameos in the movie.
It was shot in Israel and in Hebrew, a language she had to learn as new, to pass as an Israeli in the movie.
The Israeli cast combined with the Hollywood filmmaking team makes for a movie, which gives you a very emotional experience while watching it.
Without giving away too much of the plot-line, I can say this was definitely a movie that you don’t forget the moment you leave the theatre. I give it a thumbs up!

Clips courtesy: Focus World

August 19, 2016
Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Pete’s Dragon

I probably was five-years-old when I saw the original “Pete’s Dragon” and to this day I remember that song Pete and the dragon sang together back in 1977.
In the original film Pete and the dragon were secret friends who meet after Pete escapes his brutal foster parents, whereas in the twenty-sixteen version the dragon is more of a savior to Pete, who’s parents died in a car accident trying not to overrun a deer on the highway. So, now Pete has lived for five years in the forest with Elliott, the dragon, and that’s our story begins…. Disney just loves those orphan got lost in the wild stories, immediately Tarzan and the Jungle Book come to mind.
Even though, the plot is a typical Disney family flair, something about this David Lowery directed flick feels very different. Maybe its New Zealand’s majestic forest’s with their silence and natural voices you don’t usually hear in movies, the water stream, the wind, the birds chiming and a dragon that is not cartoonish, who’s movement affects the forest and makes noises you would expect of a real life dragon.
And although this is a movie geared towards kids, adults will come out of it fully charged with a high dosage of enchantment to make your inner child come alive. I give it a thumbs up!!!

Clips courtesy: Walt Disney Studios

August 12, 2016
Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Jason Bourne

This is the fifth Bourne Identity movie in the franchise and the first starring Matt Damon since 2007, even though he did say back then that he was done with the franchise.
You gotta learn from 007: NEVER SAY NEVER…
Jason Bourne can be viewed as both the most important and least important movie in the series. Important because details about Bourne’s backstory are being reviled yet for those who maybe have not seen any of the other movies it’s a mediocre action flick which leaves you kinda confused what this is all about.
No one can deny this is a fun and entertaining movie, yet this is also the return of Matt Damon to the franchise you wanted to be awe struck.
Bourne Identity also kills off two of the major characters of the series and replacing one with very sexy Swedish Oscar winner, Alicia Vikander. The new dynamic created in movie, as a result, makes you think maybe this franchise has just gotten a new lease on life…
This movie gets a “Thumbs in the Middle” from me.

Clips courtesy: Universal Pictures

July 29, 2016