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“The Next Generation in Film” @bmoreart

Today, BmoreArt published my article on the Creative Alliance‘s annual “Best of Baltimore Student Film” showcase, featuring interviews with Film Programmer…

BmoreArt, Creative Alliance, Gina Caruso, Samantha Mitchell, Student Films

Reviews of “The IF Project,” “The Light Between Oceans” & “Morgan” @filmfesttoday

I am now writing for Film Festival Today, where I hope to see my reviews of more mainstream, wide-release films published…

Film Festival Today, If Project, Light Between Oceans, Morgan

Criterion’s “Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words” & “Ivan’s Childhood” + “Disorder” & “Morris from America,” all @hammertonail

In the past two weeks, Hammer to Nail published four reviews of mine, of two Criterion Collection Blu-ray releases and two new movies…

Criterion, Disorder, Hammer to Nail, Ingrid Bergman, Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words, Ivan's Childhood, Morris from America

“Hands of Stone” Throws a Punch, Takes a Beating

Hands of Stone (Jonathan Jakubowicz, 2016) Venezuelan actor Edgar Ramírez (Carlos) stars as famed Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán in Hands of Stone, a new…

Hands of Stone

Better Late Than Never, Summer 2016 Edition: “Kubo and the Two Strings,” “Suicide Squad,” “Captain Fantastic,” “The Secret Life of Pets,” “The Legend of Tarzan” and “Zootopia”

Every year, there are films that I miss seeing when they first come out (usually because I am unable to…

Captain Fantastic, Hammer to Nail, Kubo and the Two Strings, Legend of Tarzan, Secret Life of Pets, Suicide Squad, Zootopia

Criterion’s “Muriel” + “A Tale of Love and Darkness” + Tracy Droz Tragos x2 at “Hammer to Nail”

In the past two weeks, Hammer to Nail published three reviews of mine – of two movies just released and one brand-new…

A Tale of Love and Darkness, Abortion: Stories Women Tell, Alain Resnais, Blu-ray, Criterion Collection, Hammer to Nail, Muriel, Muriel or the Time of Return, Natalie Portman, Tracy Droz Tragos

“Roughly Speaking” Podcast on Hollywood Epics, “Ben-Hur,” “Hell or High Water” and “War Dogs”

Today, Linda DeLibero – Director, Film and Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University – and Christopher Llewellyn Reed (that’s me) – Chair and Professor, Department…

Ben-Hur, Charlton Heston, Dan Rodricks, Hell or High Water, Hollywood Epics, linda delibero, Roughly Speaking, War Dogs, William Wyler

“Hell or High Water” Is a Brilliant Existential Western Crime Thriller

Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie, 2016) It’s early morning in West Texas. The camera drifts lazily over and through…

Hell or High Water

“War Dogs” Offers Mostly Great Satire of Our Military/Industrial Complex

War Dogs (Todd Phillips, 2016) Todd Phillips is the man responsible for giving us all three Hangover films. I loved the…

War Dogs

“Ben-Hur” Fails to Champion Its Raison d’Etre

Ben-Hur (Timur Bekmambetov, 2016) American Civil War Hero Lewis Wallace – or General Lew Wallace, as he is most often known –…

Ben-Hur

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