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Tom McCarthy

A collection of 3 posts
Overstreet Archives: The Station Agent (2016)
Film Reviews

Overstreet Archives: The Station Agent (2016)

Posted at Looking Closer for the first time, here is Overstreet's 2016 reflection on Tom McCarthy's The Station Agent.
22 May 2021 5 min read
On Movies & Media

The movie I most frequently loan out to friends...

You try walking across Seattle alone. At night. Barefoot. My college roommate did all the time. I didn't understand it, just as I didn’t understand his quiet demeanor, his watchfulness from the edges, or his aversion to typical college-life distractions. His after-dark disappearances intrigued me. So I
30 Sep 2016 1 min read
Spotlight (2015): first impressions and a film forum
Film Reviews

Spotlight (2015): first impressions and a film forum

How in the world is anybody supposed to make a successful movie about the journalists who brought the sexual abuse coverups in the Catholic church to global headlines? Let's ask Peter Jackson. "Orcs," he says. "All you need to do is create a new subplot
21 Nov 2015 7 min read
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