Jeffrey Overstreet

Just Tweeted by Roger Ebert: Hitchcock and Tom Snyder, 1973, one hour long, long-lost interview, rediscovered. Droll. Good quality video. http://j.mp/4uqEPa

I was going to do my best to ignore the latest package of excrement labeled “American comedy”… the “film” called Couples Retreat. But then The Onion made it worth mentioning, by taking this opportunity to speak out more truthfully than any other film-review source on the sorry state of big-screen comedy in America. Vince Vaughn […]

Collider’s Steve ‘Frosty’ Weintraub reports that his TIFF interview with filmmaker Bong Joon-ho (The Host, Mother) included discussion of the director’s next project, Snow Piercer: Bong says his next project takes place in a world covered by ice and snow. He says it’s about a group of survivors that end up on a train and […]

I may not have the freedom or funds to get to the Toronto International Film Festival, but most of us have the time to enjoy and learn from Victor Morton’s thought-provoking coverage of the films he saw. His capsule reviews are not really capsules at all… they’re more like megadoses of vitamins for your moviegoing […]

Today at Greencine Daily, Jeffrey Anderson delivers an interview with Michael Stuhlbarg. You may not know that name now, but you will be hearing it everywhere soon… maybe even at the Academy Awards. When I attended the press screening, I felt a strange anticipation. How often do we see a film by Oscar-winning filmmakers that […]

With reports spreading today that Marlon Wayans, not Eddie Murphy, may be playing Richard Pryor in the biopic called Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said?, I’m immediately wondering how director Bill Condon will capture both the heights of hilarity in Pryor’s performances and the depths of sadness in Pryor’s story. What films have successfully […]

In Part 2, we consider the second of Neil Gaiman’s variations on “Alice in Wonderland,” and ponder the attraction of these mysterious but familiar fantasies.

Now on DVD, Neil Gaiman’s enthralling 3D feature deserves mention alongside the greatest American fantasy films. But it has intriguing similarities to a lesser-known Gaiman adaptation.

Okay, maybe you can’t actually earn a film degree at Filmwell, but Filmwell is an essential resource for your film studies, according to the Online Degrees Hub. Today, Filmwell was honored among 99 other film-related blogs and websites in the Online Degrees Hub list of the Top 100 Film Studies Blogs. Filmwell’s contributors are also […]