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 […]
Comedy
PAUL: E.T. Home…run
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Thank you for making Paul, which tells a “postive” side in mankind’s UFO and aliens tale of two cities, a Dickensonian approach where last week’s number one film Battle Los Angeles (BLA), certainly depicts the peasants of the world totally being demoralized by what could have been the alien aristocracy […]
THE GREEN HORNET: BETTER THAN TRON
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Being a pal of Robert Lee (Bruce Lee’s brother), a well known martial arts film expert (based on fan and critic reactions to my recently released book The Ultimate Guide to the Martial Arts Movies of the 1970s) and a fight choreographer in the Chinese kung fu film industry and Hollywood since 1979, I […]
RED – WHAT “THE EXPENDABLES” SHOULD HAVE BEEN
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Finally, a great action film this year that has a delightfully honest tone of yesteryear, when films like this (i.e. Die Hard) were fun to watch, without trying to convince the audience, “Aren’t we a cool film?” RED is neither pretentious nor licentious, but is audacious and adventurous, an action-romantic […]
DUSTIN NGUYEN TO MAKE A PERSONAL APPEARANCE IN SAN DIEGO
By Dr. Craig D. Reid American TV icon and acclaimed international Vietnamese-American film star Dustin Nguyen will be making a personal appearance this Friday, September 24, 2010 at the 8:05 pm showing of his latest film FOOL FOR LOVE at San Diego’s Edwards Mira Mesa Stadium 18 & Imax theatre. When mainstream America thinks of […]