Posts by Christian Long

The Walking Dead is dumb and it should feel dumb.

Martin Scorsese outdoes himself with the jam packed premiere of Vinyl.

“Do you get it, Coral? I said it was eye-popping. Coral?”

Whether good or bad, 2015 offered plenty of memorable moments in television and film.

Semantic ponderings, endless analysis, fruitless bickering. A Jedi craves not these things.

Netflix let Adam Sandler make a movie. The resulting Ridiculous Six is about as insipid as you can imagine and then some.

What deeper meaning can be gleaned from 45 minutes of Nick Offerman silently sipping whiskey?

If you can count on The Walking Dead for anything, it’s to be consistently inconsistent.

Are you watching Fargo? You really, really ought to be.

We FINALLY found out what happened to Glenn as The Walking Dead inches towards the fall finale.

While beter than the last several weeks, The Walking Dead keeps up it’s tradition of meandering slowly through the mid-season.

[rating=9.00] Somewhere between the sparse, sly delivery of Mark Sandman’s Morphine and the formidable big brass sounds created by acts like Tower of Power lies Josh Hoyer and Soul Colossal. Having recently undergone a name change, (formerly Josh Hoyer and the Shadowboxers), their second LP is a lush, atmospheric record, one that paints an anthemic […]

The Walking Dead may have come out of the gate with a bang, but it’s stumbled once more into the morass of mediocrity.

The Austin Film Festival, which dedicates its focus on the role of the screenwriter in the motion picture process, drew to a close at the end of the week, wrapping up its 22nd year. “This is the best festival we’ve ever had… that started with a tornado” joked one of the MCs while introducing the […]

While the frequency of showings may have died down a little at “the writer’s festival,” there were some centerpiece films still highlighting the schedule. While The 33 and Brooklyn commanded around-the-block lines, there also some smaller films still to be seen at the 22nd annual Austin Film Fest. Here’s how the fifth and sixth days […]

Having reached the halfway point of the 22nd annual Austin Film Fest, more red carpets were laid out for actors and filmmakers out to celebrate the role of the screenwriter in the creative process. Day number four included a handful of slice-of-life pictures, from today all the way back to biblical times, and here’s how […]

[rating=5.00] “He’s Not Here” For the first time since the sixth season premiered, we get a slowdown from the breakneck speed and the confined timeline of the first three episodes. With a number of character’s fates still up in the air, be it by hopeful fan theories or simply the cliffhanger ending from last week, it’s […]

It was a frantic and bustling third day of The Austin Film Festival, now in its 22nd year of celebrating the role of the screenwriter. While the numerous and occasionally-costumed attendees swarmed about, intermingling with the increasing chaos of Halloween night in downtown Austin, here’s how the film’s of day three stacked up. Man Up […]

For the Austin Film Festival’s second day, a morning full of torrential rains and flash flooding put a severe damper (pun intended [editor’s note: ugh]) on getting easily around Austin. However, tried and true cinephiles braved the elements and made the best of it, eager to take part in Friday’s events. More venues and showtimes […]

[rating=4.00] Brian Helgeland’s latest screenwriting foray into the world of organized crime, which he also directed, is the kind of movie that sounds like an absolute must-see. A 1960s mob movie about the infamous Krays, twin brothers who ruled the underworld of London’s east end in the 1960s. Cast Tom Hardy as both Reggie (the […]