Christopher Null has been an entertainment and technology writer and editor for more than 17 years. Null founded Filmcritic.com in 1995 and has worked as Editor-in-Chief of Mobile magazine, Editor-in-Chief of New Architect, Executive Editor of Smart Business (formerly PC Computing) magazine, and Managing Reviews Editor of LAN Times magazine. Today he can be found blogging daily for Yahoo! Tech. As a freelance and staff writer, Chris has penned entertainment, business, and high-tech pieces for Wired, Business 2.0, PC World, Men’s Journal, San Francisco Magazine, Yahoo! Internet Life, Working Woman, Maximum PC, The Austin Chronicle, The Austin American-Statesman, and numerous other publications. His clips can be found here.

Chris also works as an acclaimed novelist, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His recent projects include Five Stars! (2005, Sutro Press), a manual for aspiring film critics published in conjunction with Filmcritic.com. His debut novel Half Mast (2002, Sutro Press) was heralded as “the best of contemporary American fiction” by the New York Resident. He also co-authored the E-Business Technology Forecast (2002, PricewaterhouseCoopers) and the Network Administrator’s Reference (1999, Osborne/McGraw-Hill). Through Nullkron Productions, a Web video and commercial production house, Chris wrote and produced the commercial “Streetwalker” for icPlanet and directed the short film “Scoot!” He also wrote, produced, and starred in the short film Pressurecooker, which received raves at nearly a dozen film festival screenings throughout the late ’90s. Chris holds a 1996 Master of Business Administration degree from The University of Texas at Austin, where he received the Sord Scholar Award and the Dean’s Award for academic merit.

Chris has been profiled dozens of publications and programs, including Wired magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, ESPN, Folio, and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. He was even quoted by the renowned Roger Ebert in his review of the film Emma. Chris is also a founding member (since 1997) of The Online Film Critics Society, and he is three degrees from Kevin Bacon. You can keep up with his daily rant at chrisnull.com and find his cocktail blog at Drinkhacker.com.