Journal Entry Escapes to Ladner, Vancouver, Port Townsend, and Nowhere Else: adventures in rest, reading, writing, cinema, and music Some travel journaling from my late summer excursions and escapes.
Speaking engagements Love your North Seattle neighbor! Join me and Anne in Shoreline to celebrate the films that have changed us. You’re invited to join me and Anne, just north of Seattle, for an evening of conversation and reflection on the films that have changed us.
U2 U2 lifts up a prayer on the “Street of Dreams” U2’s "Street of Dreams" blends what they do at their best and their worst at the same time. It's prayerful, poetic, and joyous, but also silly and packed with platitudes.
Journal Entry It’s not too late... Before I get back to the work of writing reviews, here are a few personal updates.
Journal Entry SDG picks the best MCU movie My favorite film critic, Steven D. Greydanus, has announced his pick — and I’m quite happy with it. A
Lost & Found in the Cathedral of Cinema Book Report #2: What another reader says about Lost & Found in the Cathedral of Cinema Here's what a Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic is saying about the new film memoir Lost and Found in the Cathedral of Cinema.
Mitski Proof of Life: still here, don't give up on me A Surprise Package post from the office where I feel like a hostage — featuring new music and an old(er) favorite.
Journal Entry Refueling, revving the engines... A Surprise Package post full of recent highlights — Muppets! Anna Tivel! Rian Johnson! Catherine O’Hara! and much more.
Bruce Springsteen Bragg, Bryan, and Springsteen light the way for artists of conscience in 2026 The great Bruce Springsteen is stepping up and singing with courage, conscience, and truth...
John Williams A memorable evening with John Williams’s biographer On January 8, I interviewed Tim Greiving about his extraordinary journey to becoming the first biographer of the great John Williams.
Journal Entry Sending out a New Year’s SOS, and making a resolution An update regarding my recent absence, and a resolution — despite my soul’s fatigue — to keep on keepin’ on.
Meet Me at the Edge of the World: the 2025 Nowhere Else Festival keynote address Here is a revised, expanded version of the keynote address I delivered at the 2025 Nowhere Else Festival in Martinsville, Ohio on Labor Day Weekend.
Give Me Some Light If Tolkien were to speak at a No Kings protest . . . Some words from the letters of J.R.R. Tolkien resonate right now.
Journal Looking Back: Overstreet online in 2000–2001 After 25 years of writing about the arts, I revisit discoveries that have been most memorable and meaningful. Here’s Part 1 of many.
JeffreyOverstreet.com Welcome to the new JeffreyOverstreet.com! Here is a video welcome from Jeffrey Overstreet and a special guest for visitors and subscribers old and new!
Interviews The Event Of Poetry: Poet Scott Cairns On Reading, Writing, And Responsibility From the archives: In 2000, I interviewed the poet Scott Cairns, who would become the director of Seattle Pacific's MFA in Creative Writing program, and a mentor.
Journal Entry Fundamentals of Fatherhood: Reflections on My Father's Life (in Four Parts) I offered a much-abridged version of these reflections at the Celebration of Life service in memory of my father, Larry Overstreet, at Damascus Community Church on Saturday, June 21.
Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr On January 20, 2025, I celebrate the inspired Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the great President Jimmy Carter
Newsletter A personal update, a request, and a preview In which Overstreet quickly summarizes the calamities of the last two weeks and the subsequent revision of his plans for the month of December.
Film Review Killers of My Substack Journal: New films by Scorsese and Fincher In a season of intensifying violence — in American neighborhoods, and in battlefields of global significance — some of our best filmmakers are telling stories about gun-wielding villains. I've just published thoughts on The Killer and Killers of the Flower Moon.
