By Dr. Craig D. Reid Chinese film fans have heard of wuxia novels and films, stories soaked in traditional tales and legends of superhuman swordsmen and magical feats. Yet there’s another genre of martial arts prose called gung-fu xiao shuo (kung fu novels), books in which the characters use martial arts even though the heroes […]
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THE THOUSAND FACES OF DUNJIA: Well Dun and Dun Well
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 […]
WOLF WARRIOR II: Chinese Kung Fu star Jing Wu Meets Rambo Fu in Africa
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Written, directed and starring Wu Jing, Wolf Warrior II (Wolf2) is such a wild and wooly, often times wacky, of the wall and a wonderfully yowling and howling movie, which due to it being the highest grossing modern-day war film in cinema history ($870 million in 49 days), that makes […]
THE REAL LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR: Wait, No One Really Knows.
By Drs. Craig and Silvia Reid It’s time for me (Craig) to come out of the writing closet. Being an Englishman raised by God-fearing Scots parents in the Southern part of England, that’s way I constantly say, “You all,” I often failed writing class because I just couldn’t grasp onto the rules of writing, which […]
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, […]