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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.

“Reel Talk” – with Chris Reed and Linda DeLibero – on “Their Finest,” “The Circle” and “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2”

Welcome to the fifth episode of the 2016-2017 season of Dragon Digital Media‘s Reel Talk with Christopher Llewellyn Reed. My guest this time was Linda DeLibero, Director … More

Dragon Media, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Howard Community College, linda delibero, Reel Talk, The Circle, Their Finest

3 @TribecaFilm Festival Reviews + “Below Her Mouth” @hammertonail

Over the past few weeks, I have covered three films (remotely) that played at the recent 2017 Tribeca Film Festival – … More

A River Below, Below Her Mouth, film festivals, Hammer to Nail, The Endless, The Last Animals, Toronto Film Festival, Tribeca Film, Tribeca Film Festival

Less Would Be More: “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” Overdoes Its Shtick, Though Still Entertains

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (James Gunn, 2017) I loved the original Guardians of the Galaxy. When it came out, … More

Bradley Cooper, Chris Pratt, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, James Gunn, Karen Gillan, Kurt Russell, Sylvester Stallone, Vin Diesel, Zoe Saldana

The 2017 Maryland Film Festival Is Here, in Brand New Digs!

If it’s early May in Baltimore, it must be time for the Maryland Film Festival again. This year, the festival … More

BmoreArt, Dan Rodricks, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Maryland Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival 2017, MdFilmFest2017, MFF 2017, Roughly Speaking, Their Finest

Review of “Below Her Mouth” & Interview with Michał Marczak (“All These Sleepless Nights) @hammertonail + Review of “Graduation” @filmfesttoday

Two more pieces of mine ran recently on Hammer to Nail: a review of the erotic lesbian drama Below Her Mouth … More

All These Sleepless Nights, April Mullen, Bacalaureat, Below Her Mouth, Cristian Mungiu, Film Festival Today, Graduation, Hammer to Nail, Michał Marczak

SXSW2017–Part 8 @hammertonail (5 More Reviews + 1 More Interview)

Finishing up my coverage of the 2017 SXSW Film Festival at Hammer to Nail (minus one interview, which HtN will run when the film premieres … More

Annie Goldson, Christopher Radcliff, Eon McLeary, Erin Lee Carr, Hammer to Nail, HBO, I Am Another You, Jairus McLeary, Kim Dotcom, Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web, Lauren Wolkstein, Miles McLeary, Mommy Dead and Dearest, Nanfu Wang, SXSW, SXSW2017, The Strange Ones, The Work

“Roughly Speaking” from April 28, 2017: Rodricks, Reed, Frankel and DeLibero on “High Noon”

On Friday, April 28, 2017,  Linda DeLibero – Director, Film and Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University – and Christopher Llewellyn Reed (that’s … More

Baltimore Sun, Dan Rodricks, Glenn Frankel, High Noon, High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic, linda delibero

WAMMFest 2017 Came and Went, Leaving Inspiration in Its Wake

Towson University just hosted the recent Women and Minorities in Media Festival (WAMMFest), which I profiled with a preview piece … More

BmoreArt, Film Festival Today, film festivals, Towson University, WAMMFest, Women and Minorities in Media Festival

2 more @annapolisff Reviews @hammertonail + Review of “Their Finest” @filmfesttoday

Hammer to Nail finished running my coverage from the recent  Annapolis Film Festival last week with two final reviews: of AWOL and The Last Laugh. In addition, … More

Annapolis Film Festival, AWOL, Deb Shoval, Ferne Pearlstein, Gemma Arterton, Lola Kirke, Lone Scherfig, The Last Laugh, Their Finest

“Free Fire” Offers a Delightful Bloodbath for Sociopaths

Free Fire (Ben Wheatley, 2017) A sublimely trippy action movie (of sorts, given that it mostly takes place in one location), … More

Artie Hammer, Ben Wheatley, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Free Fire, Sharlto Copley, SXSW, SXSW2017

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