What's your favorite Fourth of July movie? If crowds and traffic will keep you away from big fireworks shows — those stressful ordeals turned me away from public places on the Fourth a long time ago — then I recommend you consider spending some time with Jim Sheridan's 2004 film about a family of Irish immigrants called In America. You can read an abridged version of my In America review at Paste. Or, if you want my in-depth look at the film, here's one from the archives. … [Read more...]
As a follow-up to my two-part post (1, 2) on revisiting Chariots of Fire, I want to share this lengthy discussion between my friends Ken Morefield and Todd Truffin from their podcast called The Thin Place. I like this episode's clever title. … [Read more...]
As the appropriately named Mark Webb's reboot of the webslinger franchise opens to record-breaking box office and ho-hum reviews, I thought I'd look back at my initial reactions to Sam Raimi's series. The more I think about Raimi's first Spider-man movie, which I found admirable but a little disappointing, the more I'm surprised by how it looks like a classic in retrospect. Superhero films have become so numerous since then, becoming an almost weekly event, this movie stands out for its sense … [Read more...]
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“Jeffrey Overstreet is a witness. While habituating the dark caves of movie theaters, he gives articulate witness to what I too often miss in those caves — the contours of God’s creation and the language of Christ’s salvation. … I find him a delightful and most percipient companion — a faithful Christian witness.”- Eugene Peterson, author of The Message and Tell It Slant, on Overstreet’s moviegoing memoir Through a Screen Darkly
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"Jeffrey is ... one of my favorite film critics. He writes with great lucidity and compassion about all sorts of movies, from all sorts of angles, but what I value most about his work is the theological-moral perspective he takes on things. He’s not a dogmatic scold, sifting through popular art looking for work that fits a rigid world view; he’s more interested in Looking Closer, as his blog title suggests, to discover what, if anything, the work is saying." - Matt Zoller Seitz, founder of the film review websites The House Next Door and Press Play (at indieWire) and television critic for New York Magazine-
“Overstreet’s writing is precise and beautiful, and the story is masterfully told.”- Publisher’s Weekly on Overstreet’s novel Auralia’s Colors
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“In Auralia’s Colors, Overstreet masterfully extends the borders of imagination.”- Gina Ochsner, author of The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight
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“… [T]he spirit of the Inklings is alive and well and at least one living writer could have held his own at their table!”- Dick Staub, author of The Culturally Savvy Christian
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“Jeffrey Overstreet is a trespasser. He’s constantly moving outside of the borders of what church and culture deem to be ironclad, eternal categories (sacred vs. profane, high culture vs. popular culture) — and he has a knack for bringing people along with him. His passport? The imagination. ... When you trespass with Jeffrey Overstreet, you don’t have to ask for forgiveness.” - Image-
EXCUSE OUR DUST: This blog is under construction. Please email Jeffrey if you find broken links or problems. Many reviews, interviews, and posts are still being restored from the past decade of blogging. So check it out: This blog will expand both forward and backward in time. The future is now, and yesterday is not so very far away.-
About Jeffrey Overstreet-
About Looking Closer: An Introduction-
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Overstreet on Tour: Speaking Calendar-
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