By Dr. Craig D. Reid “Oh NO! There goes San Francisco, go, go Chimpzilla.” After you’ve seen The Rise of the Planet of the Apes (RPA; aka Caesar and the Rise of the Apes) then the paraphrased words from the Blue Oyster Cult’s 1977 hit “Godzilla,” will make even more sense. As movie critics, one of the […]
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COWBOYS & ALIENS: aka CIA, and There’s No Intelligence
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Cowboys & Aliens should really have been called CIA, Cowboys & Indians & Aliens. But of course there is no political correctness here because if you were to remove the “Intelligence” from the film’s pseudo-acronym, then you’d get Cowboys & Aliens, thereby making the real movie sorely lacking in intelligence. Ignore the […]
GREEN LANTERN: LANTERN TWO, A GIRL AND PIZZA FACE
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Ryan Reynolds got his big break starring in the TV show, Two Guys, A Girl and a Pizza Place (1998-2001) and in Green Lantern, although Reynolds as Hal Jordon (aka Green Lantern) is one of two guys vying for the same girl, he’s playing rendition two of the fabled DC […]
X-MEN: FIRST CLASS – OMG, IF JOHN F. KENNEDY ONLY KNEW THE TRUTH
By Dr. Craig D. Reid “The truth is out there,” became the mantra of Chris Carter’s initially uber-smart TV show The X-Files, a program initially conceived based on Carter’s firm belief that there was and still is a government conspiracy covering up the fact that aliens exist in Area 51. We now know that Carter […]
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 […]