turnerfreeman-2 Reviews

The Beekeeper (2024)

The president is still in the building!!!🤣

[8/10 · 29 February 2024]

'The Beekeeper' is silly and over the top and a lot of fun to watch. Statham's Adam Clay is Denzel Washington as 'The Equalizer' and Keanu Reeves as 'John Wick' and any other singularly driven bad ass in modern cinema that's out for vengeance, all in one invincible man. It's every Statham character on steroids and I still wanted him to win and live to fight another day. That's probably the best part of what makes it entertaining, a super action hero that's an unstoppable force, literally. Modern day matinee and worth the price of admission. I'm just wondering if it was meant to be so funny......

Koziyat rog (1972)

excellent film

[10/10 · 31 January 2022]

As an undergrad film student, this was my absolutely favorite discovery. Powerful film with minimal dialog yet every aspect of the story, the drama and the horror of war, comes through loud and clear. Highly recommended if you can get a chance to view it. I've been trying to add this to my personal collection and professional collection with no luck for the past forty years.

Lassie's Great Adventure (1963)

Crazy but true

[8/10 · 4 April 2021]

The first film I ever saw in a theater, for my forth birthday, with my dad!! Remember enjoying the Road Runner cartoon before the flick better! Needless to say, my memories of this are 'baby boomer' fond memories 😊

Da 5 Bloods (2020)

Spike Lee has been my favorite director since 'Do the Right Thing'...

[9/10 · 12 June 2020]

...before that, Stanley Kubrick, another director with a style all his own. With 'Da 5 Bloods' Brother Lee presents all of his cinematic flourishes in spades and I love it. Love the names of each of the leads, taken from the Motown act, The Temptations (a play on aspects of the storyline perhaps?) and the near complete Marvin Gaye "What's Going On" Lp as background sounds. Beautifully shot and well acted, there's little for me not to like. Some may think the Black history lessons running throughout the film are a bit much, and I can dig that, but I'm glad Spike hits us, the viewers, over the head with our history. We keep seeming to forget it.