By Drs. Craig and Silvia Reid As I’m watching the Steven S. DeKnight directed Pacific Rim Uprising (PRU) the Prego spaghetti sauce commercial comes to mind, especially the ad’s subliminal, “It’s in there, ” message in regard to the necessary ingredients in the sauce that makes it authentic. Thus for PRU‘s ingredients, Transformers, Power Rangers […]
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TOMB RAIDER: Lara Croft’s Line is Her Truth
By Drs. Silvia and Craig Reid Lara Kroft (Swedish actress Alicia Vikander) in Tomb Raider blatantly admits to her friend, “I’m no superhero.” The irony of her words might quite possibly be a self-fulfilling prophecy at the boxoffice this weekend, perhaps even a slow death knell. For those that came in late, the fiercely independent, […]
MONKEY KING 3: Hey Hey, It’s the Monkey and He’s Maybe Coming To Your Town
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 […]
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 […]
BLADE RUNNER 2049: Twisted Marvelry
By Drs. Silvia and Craig Reid Three decades after the events of the Ridley Scott directed Blade Runner (1982), which was made 35 years ago, Blade Runner 2049 is about LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gossling), who exhumes a long-buried past secret that could plummet what’s left of 2049’s clinging on to the quasi-life of civilization […]
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2: Funnier, Crazier and Flashier
By Drs. Craig and Silvia Reid When Guardian of the Galaxy (2014) was introduced into Marvel’s cinematic universe, it was voted least likely to succeed, thus advertising bucks and backing compared to all the other jewels in the Marvel treasure trove of franchise successes, was low. Yet after a $94 million opening weekend and a […]