By Dr. Craig D. Reid This year’s 11th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival (SDAFF), which runs from October 21 –28, features 140 films from 20 countries that covers a wide variety of genres, all of which are solely and souley Asian. But what makes the SDAFF one of the county’s premier film festivals is the unbriddled passion […]
RED – WHAT “THE EXPENDABLES” SHOULD HAVE BEEN
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Finally, a great action film this year that has a delightfully honest tone of yesteryear, when films like this (i.e. Die Hard) were fun to watch, without trying to convince the audience, “Aren’t we a cool film?” RED is neither pretentious nor licentious, but is audacious and adventurous, an action-romantic […]
DUSTIN NGUYEN TO MAKE A PERSONAL APPEARANCE IN SAN DIEGO
By Dr. Craig D. Reid American TV icon and acclaimed international Vietnamese-American film star Dustin Nguyen will be making a personal appearance this Friday, September 24, 2010 at the 8:05 pm showing of his latest film FOOL FOR LOVE at San Diego’s Edwards Mira Mesa Stadium 18 & Imax theatre. When mainstream America thinks of […]
CENTURION: SURPRIZE PICT-URE OF THE SUMMER
By Dr. Craig D. Reid As the summer cinema season draws to a close, which for all intents and purposes has not been a banner summer for Hollywood, the limited release Centurion will catch many people off guard. On the surface, some filmgoers may assume it’s a low budgeted 300 (2006) meets the Gladiator (2000) […]
THE RACISM OF THE EXPENDABLES MAKES THIS FILM EXPENDABLE
By Dr. Craig D. Reid The Expendables is a film that based on what is being written about its box office numbers seems to have some inside backing that tries to make a big deal of a miniscule deal, which once again shows how in some circles in Hollywood, film production wise and media wise […]
SHIN KOYAMADA’S INAUGURAL UNITED STATES MARTIAL ARTS FESTIVAL
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Earlier this year, my wife and I became Board of Directors of the Shin Koyamada Foundation (SKF), a non profit foundation in which one of the goals is to raise funds for their Martial Arts Scholarship Program so kids of lesser means can be given the chance to enroll […]