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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 line between what acting vs. performing is, Joaquin Phoenix’s embodiment of Joker is where that fine line vanishes completely.
Joker is most likely going to be a turning point in Joaquin Phoenix’s career. After 3 Oscar nominations (and winning a Golden Globe, Grammy, and Critics Choice Award), this might just be his year to win all the awards.In the center of the movie is the story of Arthur Fleck, the loser basket case mamma’s-boy, a mentally demented freak, who as legend has it, will become Batman’s most fierce’s nemesis.
Phoenix’s astonishing performance becomes even more so groundbreaking if you consider he is in almost every scene of this two-hour-long movie. Director, Todd Phillips, has set the movie to 1980’s Gotham City, yet he really has made it a point to make this a homage to Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, he even goes as far as beholding to his idols by casting Robert De Niro as the late-night talk-show host, Murray Franklin, which Arthur and his mom love watching together.
One of the comic book fans first complaints on the Todd Phillips film is that he messes things up in Joker, he has made a comic book side-characters origin story become more fascinating than the one of the main character, namely of Batman, the flip side of this is that maybe Phillips just was able to re-imagine what a comic book movie can or should be.
Joker gives us an unforgettable powerful experience that is hard to shake off. Phoenix puts a human face on an iconic villain that hammers home again and again. A very easy Thumbs Up!
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Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Only the Brave
We are in one of the fiercest battles for control of the box office (and the TV ratings) between the superheroes and the real-life heroes. On TV the battle has not been won yet by either side, however, at the box office, the superheroes are clearly ahead in the race. Only the Brave is now trying to change the tide towards the real-life heroes.
Not really sure why, but real-life heroes flicks tend to generate less interest with audiences in recent years, yet with a stellar cast that includes Josh Brolin, Jeff Bridges, and Jennifer Connelly, Only the Brave just might wow audiences over.
This is the true-life story of the heroic unit of local firefighters in Arizona, who have overcome all odds to become one of the most brutal fires in modern-day history.
Similar to Michael Bay, director Joseph Kosinski, is very much influenced by his earlier career in the world of commercials when directing this flick, which at times felt like one big commercial.
Only the Brave is a very fitting tribute to the 19 firefighters of the Prescott Fire Department who perished in the 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire and Sony Pictures, who produced the movie, surely hopes the flick will resonate with Oscar voters once they decide who they want to see in the running for this coming awards season. I liked the movie a lot and give it a Thumbs Up.
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Ron Jacobsohn reviews Cirque de Soleil’s Michael Jackson ONE
It’s been eight years since the death of the King of Pop, yet at Cirque de Soleil’s Michael Jackson ONE his legacy is kept alive and this week there will be a big birthday reception in honor of Jackson, where the cast and fans get to celebrate the one who has gone too soon.
It’s been eight years since the death of the King of Pop. Yet here at Cirque de Soleil’s Michael Jackson ONE his legacy is kept alive, six nights a week, in an eighteen hundred seater theater, able of earn up to a quarter million dollar nightly, now in its fourth year….
It is no secret that the passing of Michael Jackson has left a huge void in the entertainment world. Yet, as it usually happens in life, we continue in our own ways and forget.
In this truly breathtaking show, Cirque de Soleil has managed to bring Michael Jackson back to life.
Running at a little less than two hours, this production, which was inspired in a joint venture with the Michael Jackson estate, takes you through important musical stations in “the King’s” life. With a tremendous high when they actually bring Jackson back to life on-stage through hologram leaving everyone at the theatre almost gasping for air.
As the cast of “One” has done in previous years, on August 29th, the birthday of Michael Jackson, they will be commemorating the day with a tribute celebration day that will end with a big birthday reception where the cast and fans get to celebrate the one who has gone too soon.
ONE is truly a spectacular show, where even the mildest Michael Jackson fan can find something to fall in love with.
From the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, I am Ron Jacobsohn.Clips courtesy: CNN, AEG Worldwide & Cirque du Soleil
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Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Dunkirk
This Jonathan Nolan directed pic is nothing short from breathtaking.
Nolan was extremely tedious in portraying the story of the evacuation of the British Forces in World War II from the shores of the French harbor, Dunkirk, in a very historically accurate way. He shot the scenes with no less than six-thousand real life background actors at the actual place where the evacuation happened in early June of 1940.
The amazing thing about this movie is not the high paying actors that star in it but, for a refreshing change, the story and how a genius director immortalized it. In this non-linear narrative, the story is told in three perspectives with overlapping time periods: one week on land, one day at sea, and one hour in the air, all told in masterful visual storytelling, which keeps the audience gasping.
If you are looking for your standard Hollywood war movie, Dunkirk is definitely not it. Nonetheless, this is a spellbinding awe taking war movie, which will definitely set a new glass ceiling for the genre.
Although the story seems fairly uncomplicated at first, Dunkirk becomes a tour de force of what modern-day cinema is able to achieve… an instant classic… yet not without the help of a very big budget from a Hollywood studio. I happily give it a thumbs up.