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.

Midday on Blazing Blockbusters: June 28, 1-2pm

[NOTE: Missed the show? Check out the podcast!] On Friday, June 28, I, Christopher Llewellyn Reed – Chair of Film/Video … More

This past Sunday, I presented the soon-to-be-released film The Spectacular Now – adapted from Tim Tharp’s 2008 book of the same … More

Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, 2013) I was 26 when I saw Before Sunrise, in 1995, just a few years older than … More

Man of Steel (Zack Snyder, 2013) The creators of the new Superman origin film, Man of Steel, managed to make one … More

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