By Dr. Craig D. Reid The dynamic epic manga comic Dreamhoppers, the debut brainchild of Laizen Comics, features actor/philanthropist Shin Koyamada, star of the Disney Channel’s top rated original movie Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior, as warrior leader Ren Matsuo who leads a team of five Dreamhoppers into the Dreamworld as to stop an evil entity […]
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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, […]
REAL STEEL: STEAL THIS UNREAL DEAL AND LOOSE IT
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Screenwriting 101: It is important to care for or associate with the hero, in that way the audience has a vested interest in the character in as much we want to cheer for him/her and his/her success. Here in lies the problem with Real Steel…we don’t care about the hero […]
HARRY POTTER: THE “POTTERER” FINALLY WINS
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]