By Dr. Craig D. Reid From the classic 1998 film Frantic starring Harrison Ford as Doctor Richard Walker: In a hotel room in Paris, a doctor comes out of a cold shower and finds that his wife has disappeared. He soon finds himself caught up in a world of intrigue, espionage, gangsters, drugs and murder […]
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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 […]
Season of the Witch: Bring Out Your Dead
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Tis the Season to be jolly. Witch Season are you talking about? Yes that one. Nicolas Cage gets all Wicker Man again as he now takes on a new unholy woman in Season of the Witch, a woman who might be holding the fate of England, and in fact all of Europe, in […]
RAPUNZEL: OH WHAT A “TANGLED” WEB WE HAIR WEAVE…
By Dr. Craig D. Reid We’re not talking extensions here folks but Rapunzel’s real long hair that weaves and wraps around those that practice to decieve. Of course that would be the evil pseudo-mother that spider webs her deception until it arachno-bites her in the butt to reveal the true red-lantern walking shadow of the […]
SDAFF 2010: IN SAN DIEGO BUT OUT OF THIS WORLD
By Dr. Craig D. Reid This year’s 11th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival (SDAFF), which runs from October 21 –28, features 140 films from 20 countries that covers a wide variety of genres, all of which are solely and souley Asian. But what makes the SDAFF one of the county’s premier film festivals is the unbriddled passion […]
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 […]