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.

In “The Walk,” Gordon-Levitt’s Manic Pixie Gallic Guy Cannot Ruin the Majesty of Zemeckis’ 3D High-Wire Thrills

The Walk (Robert Zemeckis, 2015) Have you seen James Marsh’s Oscar-winning documentary, Man on Wire (2008)? It tells the story of famed … More

[Missed the show? Check out the podcast!] Since the early 1950s, as the Cold War truly got under way and … More

The Intern (Nancy Meyers, 2015) Ah, Nancy! For years now (in films like What Women Want, The Holiday and It’s Complicated), you have been … More

Everest (Baltasar Kormákur, 2015) Back in 1996, an IMAX crew filmed sequences on and around Mt. Everest for a 44-minute documentary, … More

Black Mass (Scott Cooper, 2015) In 2014, documentary director Joe Berlinger (Under African Skies) released a movie about the notorious … More

The first episode of the 2015-2016 season of Dragon Digital Media‘s Reel Talk (the fourth season, overall, and the second season … More

The Visit (M. Night Shyamalan, 2015) Ask yourself this: if not for The Sixth Sense, would you still care about M. Night … More

Grandma (Paul Weitz, 2015) How I wanted to like this movie (despite its lackluster trailer). I love Lily Tomlin (most … More

[Missed the show? Check out the podcast!] 70 years ago, on September 2, 1945, the Empire of Japan signed the … More

The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller, 2015) Be forewarned, O faint of heart, that this movie features inappropriate sex between … More