Looking Closer
It works as a buddy movie, as a "foodie" film, as a meditation on a mid-life crisis, as battle of brilliant improvisational comedians, and as a surprisingly dry and bittersweet comedy about celebrity. Read more
It works as a buddy movie, as a "foodie" film, as a meditation on a mid-life crisis, as battle of brilliant improvisational comedians, and as a surprisingly dry and bittersweet comedy about celebrity. Read more
Okay, for the one reader out there who doesn't know: You can download the new U2 album for free right now on iTunes. Read more
My first novel Auralia’s Colors — currently on sale at Amazon for a bargain price — is 7 years old today! She’s growing up so fast. (more…) Read more
Who do you take to the movies? Why are you such a snob? What's your favorite album of 2014 so far? Why do you rarely smile in pictures? Questions are coming in, so... time for another Q & O = Question and Overstreet! Read more
On Twitter, the poet Amy Newman asked me to share my pick for “Best Use of Music in a Movie.” When a poet as gifted as Amy Newman asks you a question, you answer it. (more…) Read more
“Drama holds a mirror up to life, but needn’t reproduce it.” Roger, Roger, Roger. Here I am watching a film about your departure, and I’m still jotting down things you said that will be worth quoting in my own film reviews. (more…) Read more
Terry Gilliam's Brazil + Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Delicatessen + Peter Weir's The Truman Show + Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men + John McTiernan's Die Hard. Link those cars together and, wow, what a helter-skelter train! Read more
Listen to my conversation about Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" with Christianity Today's Chief Film Critic Alissa Wilkinson and the Christ and Pop Culture Superfriends — Richard Clark and Wade Bearden. Read more
I'm excited to find, among the new Netflix original series, "The Cosmopolitans," a new series from Whit Stillman. Read more
When I shared some reviews that question the quality of a faith-based film, I received a scornful comment. (more…) Read more
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