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 […]
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Hollywood/Japanese Actor Shin Koyamada Ebbs the Tide of Japan’s Earthquake and Tsunami Victims with Fashion Show Fundraiser.
By Dr. Craig D. Reid On a day that the press is lambasting one of Hollywoods biggest film stars of all time for cheating on his wife earning him the new nickname “The Sperminator,” it’s refreshing to know that a returning Hollywood/Japanese star is doing something not for personal gain, glory or money but for the sake of righteously […]
True Legend: Su-exploitation Returns with a Vengeance
By Dr. Craig D. Reid As the years go by, the biggest challenge facing Chinese martial arts movies is for the fight directors and their choreographers to keep coming up with creative fight scenes that don’t rehash what they’ve been doing for over 30 years. Then with the advent of Hong Kong’s famously mind blowing […]
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 […]
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 […]
BATTLE LOS ANGELES: IT’S BAAAAACK
By Dr. Craig D. Reid February 24, 1942, three months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, it seemed Los Angeles was about to be attacked. Around 2:00 am, February 25, and on into the rest of the night, unidentified hovering objects were reported over Los Angeles, the threat being real enough that air raid sirens droned […]