By Dr. Craig D. Reid Last year in Battle LA, a handful of US Marines from Camp Pendleton (32 miles North of San Diego, near Oceanside, California) saved the world from an alien invasion and now they’re baaaaaack. That’s right, new and improved aliens have arrived to take over the world in Battleship, and whose […]
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WAR HORSE: Liverpool Meets Zulu ala Balaclava
By Dr. Craig D. Reid As I walk…walk on, walk on, you will never walk alone
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – Another “Holmes” Run
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Growing up in England and reading Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories on Sherlock Holmes, scanning 1960’s English comic books featuring Holmes-influenced characters, and watching the eloquently shrouded Holmes on umpteen TV shows and films, one can become attached to the Holmes that was. So comparing the true Victorian Holmes created […]
Killer Elite: No Sam Peckinpah Film
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Killer Elite is a dirty, gritty, brutally honest film. So what exactly does this mean? First off it’s not even close to the original far out film of the same name that Sam Peckinpah did back in 1975, which featured a dirty performance by Robert Duval, a gritty portrayal of mercenary […]
THE RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES: Humankind has a Chimp on its Shoulder
By Dr. Craig D. Reid “Oh NO! There goes San Francisco, go, go Chimpzilla.” After you’ve seen The Rise of the Planet of the Apes (RPA; aka Caesar and the Rise of the Apes) then the paraphrased words from the Blue Oyster Cult’s 1977 hit “Godzilla,” will make even more sense. As movie critics, one of the […]
COWBOYS & ALIENS: aka CIA, and There’s No Intelligence
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Cowboys & Aliens should really have been called CIA, Cowboys & Indians & Aliens. But of course there is no political correctness here because if you were to remove the “Intelligence” from the film’s pseudo-acronym, then you’d get Cowboys & Aliens, thereby making the real movie sorely lacking in intelligence. Ignore the […]