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  • Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Rules Don’t Apply

    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 thing you can’t take away from Beatty is that he has done a superb job casting his supporting cast, which includes Alec Baldwin, Matthew Broderick, Candice Bergen, Annette Bening, Ed Harris, Oliver Platt, Alden Ehrenrich and Lilly Collins. And speaking of Collins, following in her daddy’s, Phil Collins, footsteps, she sings the theme song, that actually hits a nerve with almost everyone who watches the flick.

    Rules Don’t Apply is Beatty’s fifth movie as a director (and the first one he directed in eighteen years), which has many question if by directing Rules Don’t Apply he might not have stained his flawless choices as a director with classics like Reds and Bulworth.

    The script of Rules Don’t Apply doesn’t really know what it wants to be, it is not quite a comedy, not quite a drama and not quite a bio-pic… What it does have is great acting and it was beautifully shot… I give it an undecided THUMPS IN THE MIDDLE.

    Ron Jacobsohn

  • Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them

    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 of a suitcase, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them actually is not by far the most expensive Harry Potter franchise movie, some of the later flicks already cost the studio well over a quarter of a billion dollars.

    In what is set to be an at least five movie franchise for the WB, this first installment throws us right into the midst of it and only later starts explaining what is actually going on.

    The premise starts with Newt Scamander played by Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne, an employee of the British Ministry of Magic, arriving at Prohibition-era New York with a suitcase full of fantastic beasts. A chance meeting with a wannabe pastry chef at the bank has the suitcase mistakenly exchanged and all hell breaks loose as the beasts break out of the suitcase and Scamander gets into deep trouble with the Magical Congress of the United States of America.

    But fear not, two-hours-and-thirteen minutes later all will end well as our protagonist embarks back on his journey to England, leaving behind a whole slew of characters we still don’t know what role they will play in future installments of the franchise.

    This definitely is a typical genre movie with a great bonus: JK Rowlings’ imaginative mind, which is the gift that keeps on giving where the imagination just never ceases to wow you.

    I loved the movie and give it a well-deserved THUMBS UP.

    Ron Jacobsohn

  • Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Doctor Strange

    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 experience.

    The story follows the tragic life of neurosurgeon Stephen Strange, who following a car accident finds himself drawn into a world of alternate dimensions and mysticism where he finds his superpowers. Doctor Strange was never one of the most popular characters in the Marvel Universe, since his inception in 1963. In the poll of the Greatest Comic Book Characters of All Times, he ranked only eighty-three, and the TV movie based on the character from forty years ago is also long forgotten.

    The re-imagining of the character most definitely elevated his cache and depending on how well he will do at the box office will seal his fate as a potential franchise in the growing number of Marvel-based Disney movies.

    This flick is no Spiderman or Ironman but all in all it definitely has the potential to become cult. I give it a THUMBS UP.



  • Ron Jacobsohn Reviews DreamWorks’ Trolls

    Ron Jacobsohn Reviews DreamWorks’ Trolls

    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 come a long way from the early days of Pixar.

    The fact that Justin Timberlake has been brought along to get the groove-on to the flick with nostalgic disco tunes which just can’t stop you from moving in your chairs make Trolls such a fun flick to watch no matter how old you are. Call me crazy, but I loved the soundtrack so much that I downloaded it onto my iPhone.

    Also, worth mentioning is the cast of voices that included Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Zooey Deschanel, James Corden, and Gwen Stefani.

    Needless to say, I really had a good time watching Trolls, so it gets a THUMBS UP from me.

  • Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Inferno

    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 decides to cure overpopulation by wiping out half the population of the world.
    More than in the other two movies, Inferno, is a bit harder to follow if you are not a devout Dante scholar. The plot races from one thing to another as we get to experience the beautiful sceneries of locations from Rome to Istanbul and somehow there seem to be less active and puzzles to solve along the way, in comparison with the first two movies of this franchise.
    Hanks is Hanks, no matter whatever material he touches he is going to be amazing, and his cast of characters follow his lead and give a stellar performance from Felicity Jones through Ben Foster to Omar Sy and Irrfan Khan.
    Even though this is yet again a movie about saving the world there seems to be an absence of urgency throughout. I give it a THUMBS IN THE MIDDLE.