Jeffrey Overstreet has mixed feelings about visionary filmmaker Leo Carax's new musical Annette, and so he turns to one of the film's champions for the benefit of another perspective. In this "Master Shot" episode, Overstreet interviews "Cathol

Monsters, Mayhem, and the Imagination of Ken Priebe

Jul 20th, 2021 1h 22m

In this "Master Shot" episode, Jeffrey Overstreet interviews animator, illustrator, and children's storybook author Ken Priebe about his three wild and whimsical books of wild, wacky, and scary characters: Gnomes of the Cheese Forest, Let There

Wolfwalking and Breadwinning with Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey

Jul 5th, 2021 1h 1m

In this 61-minute "master shot" episode, Jeffrey Overstreet is joined once again by Dr. Lindsay Marshall for a conversation with two of the founding storytellers and animators at Cartoon Saloon, Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey. Together with their c

Lowland Hum Reinvents a Peter Gabriel Masterpiece

Jun 25th, 2021 1h 21m

In this 82-minute "Master Shot" episode, Jeffrey Overstreet talks with Lauren and Daniel Goans, the married musical duo known as Lowland Hum, about their ambitious new album So Low: a complete re-imagining of Peter Gabriel's 1986 art-pop master

On the Theology of the Alien Franchise with Sarah Welch-Larson

Feb 16th, 2021 1h 13m

In this 75-minute "Master Shot" episode, Jeffrey Overstreet talks with writer Sarah Welch-Larson about her new book Becoming Alien: The Beginning and End of Evil in Science Fiction's Most Idiosyncratic Film Franchise. They walk through the high

On "Little Fish," Memory, and Pandemic Filmmaking with Chad Hartigan

Feb 9th, 2021 1h 3m

In this hour-long "Master Shot" episode, Jeffrey Overstreet talks with filmmaker Chad Hartigan about his new sci-fi love story "Little Fish," its focus on the power of memory, and what it was like to make a pandemic-focused movie just in time f

Reflections on 'Small Axe: Education'

Jan 31st, 2021 12m

In this Cutaway Episode, Jeffrey Overstreet thinks aloud about "Education," the fifth film in director Steve McQueen's remarkable Small Axe series, and how the movie inspires him to reconsider the opportunity that every teacher has when they st

Lockdown Reading, Part Two

Dec 17th, 2020 28m 8s

In this "Cutaway" episode, Jeffrey Overstreet continues to "unpack" (to borrow a word popular with pastors) the package of books he received from Eighth Day Books for attention during these months of "sheltering at home." Here, he takes a deep

Lockdown Reading, Part One

Dec 16th, 2020 19m 38s

In this "Cutaway" episode, Jeffrey Overstreet talks about a meaningful package he received to mark his 50th birthday, and he recommends two things worth reading during a time of "sheltering at home": a book — Charlotte Donlon's The Great Belong

On 'Wolfwalkers' and the Rise of Cartoon Saloon

Nov 21st, 2020 47m 44s

In this "Master Shot" episode, Jeffrey Overstreet reviews Wolfwalkers, the latest film from Cartoon Saloon, and then talks with Dr. Lindsay Marshall, the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow in American Indian Studies at the University of

On 'The Vast of Night' and the Roswell Incident

Oct 25th, 2020 19m 5s

In this "Cutaway" episode (between 10 and 20 minutes), Overstreet looks at the 2020 indie sci-fi hit "The Vast of Night" (Amazon Prime) and reveals why it "hits close to home."

On 'Flannery' and Cancel Culture

Oct 12th, 2020 24m 49s

In this "Tracking Shot" episode (approximately 30 minutes), Overstreet looks at the 2020 documentary "Flannery" and how it might be useful in a trending argument about the stories of Flannery O'Connor and how she represents African Americans in

On 'Blade Runner' and Looking Closer

Oct 9th, 2020 50m 29s

In this introductory "Master Shot" episode to the Looking Closer with Jeffrey Overstreet podcast, Overstreet gives some close attention to a dramatic turn at the climax of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, and finds there a vocabulary for why he is

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