I am not entirely sure what the writers of this movie wanted to achieve by taking a Sleeping Beauty scenario and giving it a Game of Thrones spin. The whole premise is about palace intrigues, conspiracies, and an unhealthy obsession with war. It almost feels unnatural to watch a movie from the studio we tend to be blamed for brainwashing …
Read More »Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Joker
People love a great villain, the more demented his actions, the more fascinated they are by him and Joker is hypnotically addicting in that sense. It probably was expected that Joaquin Phoenix is going to be astonishing as the Joker. He has been groundbreaking in almost every role he has taken upon himself. If you never really grasped the fine …
Read More »Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Hustlers
Would you believe 50-year-old Jennifer Lopez could be a stripper? After a very hyped trailer, Hustlers delivers big time while giving you the unexpected. It jumps from one genre to another and when you leave the theater there is some real satisfaction, quite the rare experience for moviegoers these days. In Hustlers a group of New York City strippers gets …
Read More »Ron Jacobsohn Reviews It: Chapter Two
After It (Chapter One) became such a mega hit, earning more than $700 million two years ago, bringing back the audiences to Chapter Two, shouldn’t have proven a too big of a challenge, even its running time being two-hours-and-forty-nine-minutes. It: Chapter Two is much longer than any horror flick should be, but it does build up to something you can …
Read More »Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Angel Has Fallen
Is third time a charm for Gerard Butler as Secret Service agent, Mike Banning, saving the President of the Untied States? After Aaron Eckhart portrayed the Prez in Olympus Has Fallen (in 2013) and London Has Fallen (in 2016), in Angel it is now time for a (real) Oscar winner to step in: Morgan Freeman is THE president… not that …
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