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 […]
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Jupiter Ascending: Another Crazy Galaxy Adventure
By Dr. Craig D. Reid What do you get when you cross The Matrix (1999) with Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), mix in a villain that pathetically and effeminately tries to act like Gary Oldman’s Zorg character from The Fifth Element (1997), a hero that’s part Lycan and Ryan Reynolds from Green Lantern (2011) and […]
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 […]
PAC-ARTS 4TH ANNUAL SPRING SHOWCASE: Takei, Tony and Kung Fu Theater, Oh My!
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Spring is here…for real… and I don’t mean the season but Tony Jaa, who has legs of spring, as he returns to the screen in Tom Yum Goong 2 aka The Protector 2. This is a literal proverbial, “He’s baaaaaack…and this time it’s personal,” film logline moment. There is nowhere […]
The Hobbit 2: Welcome to the House of Smaug – He’ll Pollute Your Senses
At its primeval parlay of powerful poetic pros and prophetic prowess, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is such a spine tingling psychotic film that if I saw this movie when I was a kid, I’d have had nightmares for months. The soul creepiness absorbs you, the places our heroes visit carry so much potential […]