As the 2019 San Diego Asian Film Festival (SDAFF) speeds toward the horizon, their 20th anniversary partnership with the city of San Diego shines with the bright light of cinematic delight where like any successful marriage…it isn’t always about looking at each other, but looking in the same direction. One of those directions that is […]
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SDAFF 2018: Food, Martial Arts and Whaaat? — Part 2: Brian Hu
By Dr. Craig D. Reid In less than a week, in what USA Today says is one of the Top 10 things to do in San Diego, the 19th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival (aka SDAFF 2018), which is the second biggest Asian Film Festival in North America, will be screening 160+ films from […]
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 […]
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 […]
JAMES CAMERON: HE ALL LIVES IN A MELLOW SUBMARINE
By Dr. Craig D. Reid James Cameron transported viewers to alternate worlds in “Avatar” and “Aliens,” but it’s his real-life expedition to Earth’s ocean floor that offers a blockbuster view of a truly alien world. James Cameron: Voyage to the Bottom of the Earth premieres Sunday April 29, at 9 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. ET/PT […]
JAMES CAMERON: THE GAP BETWEEN TITANIC AND AVATAR
By Dr. Craig D. Reid During the years between Titanic (1997) and Avatar, director James Cameron’s passion and admiration for oceanography took center stage with a series of underwater documentaries that were not only experiments in filmmaking but were also a reflection of his growing concerns over environment issues, which not coincidently was one of […]