By Dr. Craig D. Reid If you happened to be trying to connect with the dance scene in the early 2010s at the renowned Trocadero Underground near London’s Piccadilly Circus, you might have bumped into the young dance major graduate from Westminster Kingsway, Chris Yong, who at that time would be freelancing and jammin’ using […]
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FALLOUT – The American Jackie Chan has Arrived!
By Dr. Craig D. Reid Since last year, the media and the internet has been abuzz, not necessarily about Mission Impossible: Fallout, though after watching the film, the movie is as buzz worthy as a giant bee hive, it was about Tom Cruise breaking an ankle during the filming of a stunt that fell short, […]
Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings: One of Tsui Hark’s Best iDee-as
By Dr. Craig D. Reid It seems as the years go by for director Tsui Hark, his film’s are subliminally and slowly creeping backwards to incorporate what made his early fant-Asia films of the 1980s and ’90s the best made Hong Kong wuxia movies in town. His three romantic A Chinese Ghost Story thrillers were […]
UPGRADE – The Psychosis of Symbiosis
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 […]
JAMES LEW: The Lewk Cage Emmy Award
Dr. Craig D. Reid Early Monday morning, no time to eat, wife by my side, we’ve got a hopeful three-hour drive from San Diego to Los Angeles. Why? We’re heading to James Lew’s home to interview one of Hollywood’s iconic stunt coordinators who last year cemented his legend by winning TV’s most coveted prize, an […]
PACIFIC RIM UPRISING: A Psychedelic, Psychotic and Ventriloquistic Epic
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 […]