Author: chrisreedfilm

Christopher Llewellyn Reed is a film critic, filmmaker, and educator. A member of the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic, he is Managing Editor at Film Festival Today; lead film critic at Hammer to Nail; the host of the award-winning Reel Talk with Christopher Llewellyn Reed, from Dragon Digital Media; and the author of Film Editing: Theory and Practice. In addition, he is one of the cohosts of The Fog of Truth, a podcast devoted to documentary cinema.

Oh, What a Lovely Apocalypse! “This Is the End” is Brilliant, Except When It’s Not

This is the End (Evan Goldberg/Seth Rogen, 2013) Oh, what fun I had for the first thirty minutes of this … More

On Sunday, June 16, at 10:30am, I will present the upcoming film The Spectacular Now (adapted from the novel of the … More

Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley, 2012) “When you are in the middle of a story it isn’t a story at all, … More

We live in a world of wonders, where all of the problems that plagued humanity from the dawn of time … More

[NOTE: Missed the show? Check out the podcast!] On Friday, June 7, Linda DeLibero – Director, Film and Media Studies, … More

After Earth (M. Night Shyamalan, 2013) This is such a piece of crap or, to put it in polite language, … More

For the past two years, students in the Department of Film/Video at Stevenson University have written, produced, shot and edited … More

Cleopatra (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963) Today, I saw, for the first time – in a movie theater, no less! – … More

The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann, 2013) Before seeing this film last night, I had watched two previous versions of The Great … More

So another Maryland Film Festival has come and gone and, as usual, I did not get a chance to see nearly … More