By Dr. Craig D. Reid Directed by Leigh Whannell, Upgrade is a futuristic, revenge-filled, dystopian, sci-fi horror thriller that makes a great argument for today’s society to steer away from Tesla robo-cars…computer hacking is nothing compared to the bloody human hacking that results when technology goes more than awry. When old school, born to be […]
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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, […]
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. – Neo Nostalgia is the New Past
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Hey daddyo, the new Man from U.N.C.L.E. movie based on the jazzy, 1960’s, Cold War, go-go and groovy TV show The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-68), comes across more of a gas than a drag as we relive the tight wire tensions of an unlikely U.S.-U.S.S.R.-U.K triumvirate of enemies uniting under […]
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – Another “Holmes” Run
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Growing up in England and reading Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories on Sherlock Holmes, scanning 1960’s English comic books featuring Holmes-influenced characters, and watching the eloquently shrouded Holmes on umpteen TV shows and films, one can become attached to the Holmes that was. So comparing the true Victorian Holmes created […]
UNKNOWN: Ford’s “Frantic” ala “Taken II”
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 […]