Favorite Recordings Overstreet’s Favorite Recordings of 2025: #10–#1 I’m working on this list here, during the first days of April, hoping to finally conclude my reflections on 2025 highlights so I can get to work posting about all that is great and good in 2026. This new year just won’t slow down enough that I’m
Looking Closer's Annual Favorite Films Lists Overstreet’s Favorite Films of 2025: The Top Twelve For generous subscribers, here is the list of my twelve favorite films of 2025 — only two of which were nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. (I’m guessing there are a few titles here you’ve never heard of, but when you see those movies, you’ll never forget them.)
Favorite Films Overstreet’s Favorite Films of 2025: #25–#13 This post in progress, which will expand over the next week, announces my favorite films of 2025, covering #25–#13. (The Top Twelve post is coming later this week.)
Looking Closer's Annual Favorite Films Lists Overstreet’s Favorite Films of 2025: Honorable Mentions Here is the opening post in my series of posts on my favorite films of 2025. This post will include films I've listed as Honorable Mentions, along with video commentaries, some written notes, movie posters, and trailers for the films.
Looking Closer's Annual Favorite Albums Lists Favorite Recordings of 2025: #15–#11 Here are my reflections on five of my fifteen favorite recordings of 2025, featuring (in alphabetical order) Ólafur Arnalds (with Talos), Patty Griffin, Anna B Savage, Mavis Staples, and Wet Leg.
Favorite Recordings Overstreet’s Favorite Recordings of 2025, Part Two: #30–#16 Time to open up your music apps and make yourself a list of outstanding albums you might have missed!
2025 Overstreet’s Favorite Recordings of 2025: introduction and honorable mentions If only with candles and stars Broken light from dreams like ours We will still find our way through to love . . . — Sam Phillips, “Candles and Stars” By the age of 13, I was a devoted listener to Rick Dees’ Weekly Top 40. Every week, I’d turn the delicate dial
