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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 …

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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 …

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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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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 …

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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 …

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