By Dr. Craig D. Reid The Bridal Rhyme, “Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue,” will bring unbridled martial arts cinema joy to the 15th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival (SDAFF 2014) in So-Cal as they’ll cut the sweet and succulent wedding cake from November 6-15. An additional 140 films from 21 […]
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PAC-ARTS 4TH ANNUAL SPRING SHOWCASE: Takei, Tony and Kung Fu Theater, Oh My!
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Spring is here…for real… and I don’t mean the season but Tony Jaa, who has legs of spring, as he returns to the screen in Tom Yum Goong 2 aka The Protector 2. This is a literal proverbial, “He’s baaaaaack…and this time it’s personal,” film logline moment. There is nowhere […]
The Hobbit 2: Welcome to the House of Smaug – He’ll Pollute Your Senses
At its primeval parlay of powerful poetic pros and prophetic prowess, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is such a spine tingling psychotic film that if I saw this movie when I was a kid, I’d have had nightmares for months. The soul creepiness absorbs you, the places our heroes visit carry so much potential […]
THOR: THE DARK WORLD – Thor-ougly Enjoyable
Speed of lightening, power of thunder…there’s no need to fear …UnderThor is here. But seriously, this is a well Thor-t out film and it is quite obvious that our pure Thor-oughbred Hammer Time hero is a Thor-n in the dark forces trying to knock out the Nine Realms with Aether, pronounced like the anesthetic ether, […]
The Grandmaster: Martial Arts Secrecy
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Since Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai’s dynamic epicpiece The Grandmaster was released in January 2013, reviews on both sides of the Pacific and Atlantic rims have been a plenty and it’s quite obvious, especially from Western critics, that they just didn’t get it and certainly missed out on the many […]
PACIFIC RIM: GODZILLA VS. POWER RANGERS
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Yes, I hear you, most of you will undoubtedly want to say, “Pacific Rim, it looks like the Transformers.” Oh yee little minds being held at bay (Michael Bay, that is). But once you realize that the leather, space-suited human warriors are operating the robots inside their metallic shells, there […]