I’m coming to Biola University!

Last updated on: August 30, 2012 at 4:41 pm By Jeffrey Overstreet

FYI: April 22nd and 23rd, I’ll be at Biola for their media conference. (more…) Read more

Have you READ "Revenge of the Sith" yet?

Last updated on: August 30, 2012 at 4:42 pm By Jeffrey Overstreet

Doesn’t it take some of the fun out of OPENING DAY to know that the novelization of Star Wars, Episode Three: Revenge of the Sith is already available at your local bookstore? (more…) Read more

When “Reality” TV Tries to Alter the Reality of You

Last updated on: August 30, 2012 at 11:39 am By Jeffrey Overstreet

Here’s a sad story about a family participating in an segment of ABC’s PrimeTime Live . The segment was supposedly about different family dynamics, comparing and contrasting them. But it seems ABC’s “journalist” (I refuse to use this term without the quotation marks, considering their tactics) had already made up her mind about these families, and tried to make them play into the ugly caricatures she had in her own head. A “typical Roman Catholic family,” the Farinholts, was deceived... Read more

Anthony Lane on "Sin City"

Last updated on: August 30, 2012 at 11:42 am By Jeffrey Overstreet

Here’s The New Yorker‘s Anthony Lane on Sin City, clever as always: “We have, it is clear, reached the lively dead end of a process that was initiated by a fretful Martin Scorsese and inflamed, with less embarrassed glee, by Tarantino: the process of knowing everything about violence and nothing about suffering.” “Needless to say, a short course in movie history would teach them that graphic novels themselves are soaked to the bone in a style that was brought to... Read more

"Never Let Me Go" … by the author of "The Remains of the Day"

Last updated on: August 30, 2012 at 11:43 am By Jeffrey Overstreet

The less you read about this novel before you actually read the novel … the better. I’ll avoid spoilers here and just say this: I remember when I saw M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village, I thought, “There’s a great horror story waiting to be told about a community cut off from the modern world … and this isn’t it.” Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, on the other hand, is it! (more…) Read more

Au Hasard Balthazar

Last updated on: August 30, 2012 at 11:50 am By Jeffrey Overstreet

My favorite moviegoing experience of last year was Robert Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar. Now, Darren Hughes at Long Pauses has given me the best news I’ve heard all week… (more…) Read more

UPDATED: "Sin City" responses, reviews…

Last updated on: August 30, 2012 at 12:42 pm By Jeffrey Overstreet

Keep checking back to this post, and I’ll include some Sin City reviews that are worth reading. (more…) Read more

Beck’s "Guero" is here, and so is Over the Rhine’s new album!

Last updated on: August 30, 2012 at 12:36 pm By Jeffrey Overstreet

If you have a surround sound DVD system, do not buy the new Beck album Guero on CD. Instead, purchase the DELUXE DVD version!! It has the entire album, plus several extra tracks, videos for the songs, and more. The surround sound experience is fantastic. Beck clearly conceived of these songs for this format–they’re busy with little details, and they’re spacious enough that you can explore them in different ways with each listen. I rarely listen to an album three... Read more

I’ll be blogging a bit less this week…

Last updated on: August 30, 2012 at 12:34 pm By Jeffrey Overstreet

A new assignment has suddenly commandeered my calendar for the rest of the week. The demands of the next few days are going to test my limits, but I am excited to try and meet the challenge. Are you curious yet? (more…) Read more

All Credit to Richard Seven

Last updated on: August 30, 2012 at 12:34 pm By Jeffrey Overstreet

I can only thank Richard Seven once again for letting me be a part of Pacific Northwest Magazine. Look at the letters coming in to The Seattle Times. I hope the higher-ups take note of this and give the guy a bonus. (more…) Read more