What’s crazier than sending your horse to audition for The Godfather, wackier than two parrots saying, “Are you talking to me?” in a Mexican pet shop that are on sale for two deniros and wilder than when after Oz’s Scarecrow introduced Toto to the Wizard by stating, “Say hello to my little friend,” he become […]
Comedy
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 […]
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2: Funnier, Crazier and Flashier
By Drs. Craig and Silvia Reid When Guardian of the Galaxy (2014) was introduced into Marvel’s cinematic universe, it was voted least likely to succeed, thus advertising bucks and backing compared to all the other jewels in the Marvel treasure trove of franchise successes, was low. Yet after a $94 million opening weekend and a […]
16th ANNUAL SAN DIEGO ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL: Best in the West
By Dr. Craig D. Reid We’ve just finished Halloween, gained an extra hour on the proverbial space time continuum and El Nino is going to hit Southern California with inclemency worse thanSharknado 4. What more could possibly make So-Cal the place to be? As nature warns Pacific Coast residents to buy flood insurance, San Diego […]
MONSTERS UNIVERSITY: aka HUNGER MUPPET GAMES
By Dr. Craig D. Reid What’s cute, fuzzy, makes you feel warm inside, and you just want to take them home and hug them? Elmo? Oscar? Fozzie Bear? Noo…or I should say boo. That’s right, it’s the harum scarum diddle dum darum, Whipsee diddledee dandy dee dee, delightful frosh Mike (the hammy Billy Crystal) , […]
HAROLD AND KUMAR’S 3D CHRISTMAS IS MULTIDIMENSIONAL HIT
By Dr. Craig D. Reid A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas? More like a 3R Christmas…raunchy, rowdy and sometimes rollicking. If this film could’ve added about 20 more sight gags then it would have been a perfect American nod to Monty Python’s The Holy Grail (1974). Each movie focuses on the characters doing arcane, […]