By Drs. Craig and Silvia Reid As I’m watching the Steven S. DeKnight directed Pacific Rim Uprising (PRU) the Prego spaghetti sauce commercial comes to mind, especially the ad’s subliminal, “It’s in there, ” message in regard to the necessary ingredients in the sauce that makes it authentic. Thus for PRU‘s ingredients, Transformers, Power Rangers […]
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TOMB RAIDER: Lara Croft’s Line is Her Truth
By Drs. Silvia and Craig Reid Lara Kroft (Swedish actress Alicia Vikander) in Tomb Raider blatantly admits to her friend, “I’m no superhero.” The irony of her words might quite possibly be a self-fulfilling prophecy at the boxoffice this weekend, perhaps even a slow death knell. For those that came in late, the fiercely independent, […]
MONKEY KING 3: Hey Hey, It’s the Monkey and He’s Maybe Coming To Your Town
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Chinese film fans have heard of wuxia novels and films, stories soaked in traditional tales and legends of superhuman swordsmen and magical feats. Yet there’s another genre of martial arts prose called gung-fu xiao shuo (kung fu novels), books in which the characters use martial arts even though the heroes […]
THE THOUSAND FACES OF DUNJIA: Well Dun and Dun Well
By Dr. Craig D. Reid The Tsui Hark produced/written and Yuen Wo Ping directed/action choreographed The Thousand Faces of Dunjia is a VFX saturated far out, fast and furious, female driven fant-Asia film that is derived from a foundation of wuxia (martial chivalrous hero stories) Chinese literature spanning back to the Warring States period (475 […]
WOLF WARRIOR II: Chinese Kung Fu star Jing Wu Meets Rambo Fu in Africa
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Written, directed and starring Wu Jing, Wolf Warrior II (Wolf2) is such a wild and wooly, often times wacky, of the wall and a wonderfully yowling and howling movie, which due to it being the highest grossing modern-day war film in cinema history ($870 million in 49 days), that makes […]
THE REAL LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR: Wait, No One Really Knows.
By Drs. Craig and Silvia Reid It’s time for me (Craig) to come out of the writing closet. Being an Englishman raised by God-fearing Scots parents in the Southern part of England, that’s way I constantly say, “You all,” I often failed writing class because I just couldn’t grasp onto the rules of writing, which […]