Lonewolf's Movie Review - Movies I watched on cable- 2013
"Freedomland" (2006) Dir. Joe Roth
A Samuel L. Jackson movie. I enjoyed the mystery of wondering what the fuck happened. The "projects" under-siege didn't work for me, but the missing child theme had me calling my children to see if they were okay, and where they were supposed to be. When they were searching for the child in "Freedomland," an abandoned facility once used to house mentally disturbed children, the scenes reminded me of Geraldo Rivera's expose' documentary about Willowbrooke, and most recently, the second season of "American Horror Story: Asylum."
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Then I watched the epic "King of Kings" (1961) Dir. Nicholas Ray
It was your usual long (3 hrs) boring biblical film about the life of Jesus Christ. Not much you can do with a story like that except add characters that never existed to boost the story-line. Much has been made about Jesus dying on the cross to save our, meaning all of us in the world, but in this movie, I got the impression that he died for his followers at that time and place.
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