By Dr. Craig D. Reid Well, the party’s over, the end of a 10-year, 8-film and $2 billion domestic box office (worldwide more millions than 2011 British football player salaries combined, which incidentally is a lot) cinematic era with this final installment of a series of films adapted from a pseudo-children’s novel written by Joanne “Jo” Rowling (aka […]
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GREEN LANTERN: LANTERN TWO, A GIRL AND PIZZA FACE
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Ryan Reynolds got his big break starring in the TV show, Two Guys, A Girl and a Pizza Place (1998-2001) and in Green Lantern, although Reynolds as Hal Jordon (aka Green Lantern) is one of two guys vying for the same girl, he’s playing rendition two of the fabled DC […]
KUNG FU PANDA 2- Master the Po-ssibilities
By Dr. Craig D. Reid He’s baaaack, and this time it’s…awesome. What better way is there to pander to this summer’s moviegoers? Bring back one of the most im-Po-rtant pandas in the world. No, it’s not Chi Chi, Ling Ling or Hsing Hsing but the star of Kung Fu Panda 2 (KFP2; aka KFP2: The […]
True Legend: Su-exploitation Returns with a Vengeance
By Dr. Craig D. Reid As the years go by, the biggest challenge facing Chinese martial arts movies is for the fight directors and their choreographers to keep coming up with creative fight scenes that don’t rehash what they’ve been doing for over 30 years. Then with the advent of Hong Kong’s famously mind blowing […]
HANNA: Action and film outlook? Grimm
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Being associated with various notions and potions, revolving and evolving from the fairy tales and animal wails created by the Brothers Grimm, the non-action packed, somewhat of a vague thriller Hanna, fails in science, strains in action and feigns in suspense. London-borne director Joe Wright tries to pull off a French Luc Besson-ish film with the […]
UNKNOWN: Ford’s “Frantic” ala “Taken II”
By Dr. Craig D. Reid From the classic 1998 film Frantic starring Harrison Ford as Doctor Richard Walker: In a hotel room in Paris, a doctor comes out of a cold shower and finds that his wife has disappeared. He soon finds himself caught up in a world of intrigue, espionage, gangsters, drugs and murder […]