By Dr. Craig D. Reid The Tsui Hark produced/written and Yuen Wo Ping directed/action choreographed The Thousand Faces of Dunjia is a VFX saturated far out, fast and furious, female driven fant-Asia film that is derived from a foundation of wuxia (martial chivalrous hero stories) Chinese literature spanning back to the Warring States period (475 […]
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GO GO POWER RANGERS: TAKE 23
By Drs. Craig and Silvia Reid They’re baaaack, and this time it’s personal. Nope, not Jaws nor Poltergeist…but the Power Rangers (PR) more precisely Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (MMPR), which is just one e away from being a psychotic experience on painkilling drugs. Based on what the new PR film looks like, it’s the Teletubbies […]
SDAFF 2016: AN OLD GAME, A NEW REIGN AND A HALL OF FAME
By Dr. Craig D. and Silvia N.M. Reid In 2000, first generation, Korean American Lee Ann Kim stepped up to bat for San Diego, which is more than the city’s local MLB team has done, and with the help of the Asian American Journalists Association of San Diego founded the San Diego Asian Film Foundation, […]
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 […]
BIG HERO 6: Disney Marvel meets SONY HalWall
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Disney’s dapper 3-D computer-animated cartoon, Big Hero 6, which looks more like a Pixar movie, but is a superhero film based on a Marvel comic book (thus look for the Stan Lee nod), has taken its portmanteau San Fransokyo (yes, a mixture of San Diego, Frankfurt and Tokyo) story location […]
SDAFF 14: And Now for Something Completely Different
By Dr. Craig D. Reid The Bridal Rhyme, “Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue,” will bring unbridled martial arts cinema joy to the 15th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival (SDAFF 2014) in So-Cal as they’ll cut the sweet and succulent wedding cake from November 6-15. An additional 140 films from 21 […]