Keith Phipps
@kphipps3000.bsky.social
Movies, etc. for GQ, Vulture, Ringer and more. Co-host Next Picture Show. With @scotttobias.bsky.social I write The Reveal: http://thereveal.film. Author of AGE OF CAGE. He/Him
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Keith Phipps
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· Jun 23
BIG NEWS: This morning, @kphipps3000.bsky.social and I have moved The Reveal from Substack to Ghost. You can get the details in the link below. It was a scary decision for us, but we're excited about it and expect to keep this newsletter going long into the future. thereveal.film/the-reveal-h...
The Reveal Has Moved
You can now find us, well, right here.
Dear Revealers,
After much deliberation, we have decided to move the newsletter from Substack to Ghost. You will no doubt have some questions about the change,...
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Yes, it's true. We have moved from Substack to Ghost. And you can now now read and subscribe to us at:
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We're also having a limited-time sale on your first year of an annual subscription for new or returning subscribers. You can find that here:
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We're also having a limited-time sale on your first year of an annual subscription for new or returning subscribers. You can find that here:
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Today at The Reveal: Two new reviews from me: JAY KELLY and ETERNITY, two films both concerned about What Really Matters. Both are good. Neither pushes those questions as far as they could.
In Review: ‘Jay Kelly,’ ‘Eternity’
This week's new releases include a reflective look at stardom and a love story set in the afterlife.
thereveal.film
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Today at The Reveal: Two new reviews from me: JAY KELLY and ETERNITY, two films both concerned about What Really Matters. Both are good. Neither pushes those questions as far as they could.
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Good morning. For @stereogum.com, I wrote another long piece about Vinyl Me, Please, this time investigating the company's millions of dollars in unpaid debts, interviewing vendors who got screwed, and examining VMP's troubled relaunch under new ownership.
Who Got Screwed When Vinyl Me, Please Went Bust?
Inside the subscription vinyl club's unpaid debts and troubled relaunch
stereogum.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Good morning. For @stereogum.com, I wrote another long piece about Vinyl Me, Please, this time investigating the company's millions of dollars in unpaid debts, interviewing vendors who got screwed, and examining VMP's troubled relaunch under new ownership.
Today at The Reveal: Two new reviews from me: JAY KELLY and ETERNITY, two films both concerned about What Really Matters. Both are good. Neither pushes those questions as far as they could.
In Review: ‘Jay Kelly,’ ‘Eternity’
This week's new releases include a reflective look at stardom and a love story set in the afterlife.
thereveal.film
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Today at The Reveal: Two new reviews from me: JAY KELLY and ETERNITY, two films both concerned about What Really Matters. Both are good. Neither pushes those questions as far as they could.
ICYMI
This book is out today. It was a pleasure and an honor to help a little bit in the process of creating it. REFLECTIONS tells the story of Roger Deakins' life and storied career in his words—with a lot of behind-the-scenes details and, of course, many pictures.
Reflections - Roger A. Deakins
In REFLECTIONS: On Cinematography, Deakins offers his fans and film enthusiasts the improbable journey of the “boy from Torquay, England” to Hollywood.
www.rogerdeakins.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
ICYMI
A great no-spoilers argument for watching this show.
if for some reason you haven't started Pluribus yet, or if someone you know hasn't started it yet and you want them to get involved, i have created this mostly spoiler-free list of reasons to watch Pluribus
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Reasons To Watch Pluribus, Ranked
Listen to me.
type-click-type.ghost.io
November 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
A great no-spoilers argument for watching this show.
Scott makes an argument for the new RUNNING MAN being even more a film of its moment than the 1987 adaptation.
For The Reveal today, I wrote about our running men, the art and folly of adaptation, and the future/present these films represent: thereveal.film/the-running-...
The Running Men
Two versions of the same Stephen King novel reflect their eras while speaking to future-present.
thereveal.film
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Scott makes an argument for the new RUNNING MAN being even more a film of its moment than the 1987 adaptation.
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Gentle reminder that I am going to be on TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES (!!!!) on Monday for an evening of programming that we put together. I hope you'll be able to tune in. Love y'all.
My prime time program with TCM on November 17th covers Robert Altman's COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME and the Gay Bar Christmas Picture SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE. SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE doesn't screen anywhere very often and doesn't have a DVD in circulation.
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Gentle reminder that I am going to be on TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES (!!!!) on Monday for an evening of programming that we put together. I hope you'll be able to tune in. Love y'all.
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Today at The Reveal: @scotttobias.bsky.social and I continue our trip through Sight & Sound's Top 100 films with a discussion of Rainer Werner Fassbender's unlikely love story ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL:
#52 (tie): ‘Ali: Fear Eats the Soul’: The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time
Our trip through Sight & Sound's 100 best films nears the halfway mark with a stop in 1970s Munich, the setting for an unlikely Rainer Werner Fassbender love story.
thereveal.film
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Today at The Reveal: @scotttobias.bsky.social and I continue our trip through Sight & Sound's Top 100 films with a discussion of Rainer Werner Fassbender's unlikely love story ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL:
This book is out today. It was a pleasure and an honor to help a little bit in the process of creating it. REFLECTIONS tells the story of Roger Deakins' life and storied career in his words—with a lot of behind-the-scenes details and, of course, many pictures.
Reflections - Roger A. Deakins
In REFLECTIONS: On Cinematography, Deakins offers his fans and film enthusiasts the improbable journey of the “boy from Torquay, England” to Hollywood.
www.rogerdeakins.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This book is out today. It was a pleasure and an honor to help a little bit in the process of creating it. REFLECTIONS tells the story of Roger Deakins' life and storied career in his words—with a lot of behind-the-scenes details and, of course, many pictures.
Today at The Reveal: @scotttobias.bsky.social and I continue our trip through Sight & Sound's Top 100 films with a discussion of Rainer Werner Fassbender's unlikely love story ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL:
#52 (tie): ‘Ali: Fear Eats the Soul’: The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time
Our trip through Sight & Sound's 100 best films nears the halfway mark with a stop in 1970s Munich, the setting for an unlikely Rainer Werner Fassbender love story.
thereveal.film
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Today at The Reveal: @scotttobias.bsky.social and I continue our trip through Sight & Sound's Top 100 films with a discussion of Rainer Werner Fassbender's unlikely love story ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL:
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I’m saddened to hear of the death of Homayoun Ershadi, who gave one of the great performances in one of the greatest films, Taste of Cherry. english.alarabiya.net/amp/life-sty...
Iranian actor Ershadi dies at 78 after battle with cancer
Iranian actor Homayoun Ershadi died at 78 on Tuesday after a battle with cancer, state news agency IRNA reported.Ershadi rose to international fame with
english.alarabiya.net
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I’m saddened to hear of the death of Homayoun Ershadi, who gave one of the great performances in one of the greatest films, Taste of Cherry. english.alarabiya.net/amp/life-sty...
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Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese actor of Ran, Yojimbo and Harakiri, dies aged 92 @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese actor of Ran, Yojimbo and Harakiri, dies aged 92
Star of Japan’s cinematic golden age, who collaborated with Kurosawa and played the lead in Kobayashi’s Human Condition trilogy, died from pneumonia
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese actor of Ran, Yojimbo and Harakiri, dies aged 92 @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Send this email subject line back in time 20... 10... 5 years and it would be indecipherable.
November 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Send this email subject line back in time 20... 10... 5 years and it would be indecipherable.
Chicago and its suburbs, all day every day. I know I’ve posted something to this effect before but nothing has changed. Every day, it’s like a weather report. “Where is ICE today?” “What’s ICE up to?”
Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’
Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Chicago and its suburbs, all day every day. I know I’ve posted something to this effect before but nothing has changed. Every day, it’s like a weather report. “Where is ICE today?” “What’s ICE up to?”
There is absolutely no reason to believe this claim.
Federal officials accused someone of firing shots at agents conducting an aggressive immigration raid led by Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino through Little Village Saturday. No one was injured.
Agents used chemical agents to disperse the crowd, @sigchofor25.bsky.social said.
@wttw.bsky.social
Agents used chemical agents to disperse the crowd, @sigchofor25.bsky.social said.
@wttw.bsky.social
Federal Agents Say They Were Shot at in Little Village; Chemical Agents Used to Disperse Crowd
No one was injured in the shooting reported by federal agents, according to a spokesperson for the Chicago Police Department.
news.wttw.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:46 AM
There is absolutely no reason to believe this claim.
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Today at The Reveal: Even more reviews of new releases! What else can you do on a week like this. You can read @scotttobias.bsky.social on SENTIMENTAL VALUE and DIE MY LOVE and read me on CHRISTY. Then, if you missed yesterday's reviews, there's a link at the bottom:
In Review: ‘Sentimental Value,’ ‘Die My Love,’ ‘Christy’
Our second batch of new-release reviews includes a complex family drama, Jennifer Lawrence as a woman on the edge, and Sydney Sweeney suiting up for a boxing biopic.
thereveal.film
November 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Today at The Reveal: Even more reviews of new releases! What else can you do on a week like this. You can read @scotttobias.bsky.social on SENTIMENTAL VALUE and DIE MY LOVE and read me on CHRISTY. Then, if you missed yesterday's reviews, there's a link at the bottom:
Did THE ELECTRIC STATE ever get released? I can't remember.
November 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Did THE ELECTRIC STATE ever get released? I can't remember.
Today at The Reveal: Even more reviews of new releases! What else can you do on a week like this. You can read @scotttobias.bsky.social on SENTIMENTAL VALUE and DIE MY LOVE and read me on CHRISTY. Then, if you missed yesterday's reviews, there's a link at the bottom:
In Review: ‘Sentimental Value,’ ‘Die My Love,’ ‘Christy’
Our second batch of new-release reviews includes a complex family drama, Jennifer Lawrence as a woman on the edge, and Sydney Sweeney suiting up for a boxing biopic.
thereveal.film
November 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Today at The Reveal: Even more reviews of new releases! What else can you do on a week like this. You can read @scotttobias.bsky.social on SENTIMENTAL VALUE and DIE MY LOVE and read me on CHRISTY. Then, if you missed yesterday's reviews, there's a link at the bottom:
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Today at The Reveal: You can read me on TRAIN DREAMS (currently my favorite of the year) and PETER HUJAR'S DAY (also quite good) while @scotttobias.bsky.social takes on PREDATOR: BADLANDS (more reviews coming tomorrow, too):
In Review: ‘Train Dreams,’ ‘Predator: Badlands,’ ‘Peter Hujar's Day’
Three films today about the small yet majestic destinies of an early 20th century logger, a freelance photographer, and an extraterrestrial runt.
thereveal.film
November 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Today at The Reveal: You can read me on TRAIN DREAMS (currently my favorite of the year) and PETER HUJAR'S DAY (also quite good) while @scotttobias.bsky.social takes on PREDATOR: BADLANDS (more reviews coming tomorrow, too):
We have the PREDATOR sequel PREDATOR: BADLANDS. Now we just need the BADLANDS sequel BADLANDS: PREDATOR.
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We have the PREDATOR sequel PREDATOR: BADLANDS. Now we just need the BADLANDS sequel BADLANDS: PREDATOR.
FORCE MAJEURE (2014): Dir. Ruben Ostlund
RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
November 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
FORCE MAJEURE (2014): Dir. Ruben Ostlund
I reviewed the excellent new Netflix miniseries DEATH BY LIGHTNING for TV Guide. Come for Nick Offerman's Chester A. Arthur talking drunkenly about sausages, stay for the history lesson:
Death by Lightning Review: Netflix's Brisk, Relevant Historical Drama Illuminates a Brief Presidency
Michael Shannon and Matthew Macfadyen star as two men on a collision course
www.tvguide.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I reviewed the excellent new Netflix miniseries DEATH BY LIGHTNING for TV Guide. Come for Nick Offerman's Chester A. Arthur talking drunkenly about sausages, stay for the history lesson:
Today at The Reveal: You can read me on TRAIN DREAMS (currently my favorite of the year) and PETER HUJAR'S DAY (also quite good) while @scotttobias.bsky.social takes on PREDATOR: BADLANDS (more reviews coming tomorrow, too):
In Review: ‘Train Dreams,’ ‘Predator: Badlands,’ ‘Peter Hujar's Day’
Three films today about the small yet majestic destinies of an early 20th century logger, a freelance photographer, and an extraterrestrial runt.
thereveal.film
November 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Today at The Reveal: You can read me on TRAIN DREAMS (currently my favorite of the year) and PETER HUJAR'S DAY (also quite good) while @scotttobias.bsky.social takes on PREDATOR: BADLANDS (more reviews coming tomorrow, too):
I dunno, I still think the STRANGER THINGS cast could pass for high school students in an '80s movie.
November 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I dunno, I still think the STRANGER THINGS cast could pass for high school students in an '80s movie.
Chicago all day every day now. I'm not even sure the rest of the country realizes what it's like here now.
My youngest goes to Lane Tech, where parents and teachers have been having to patrol the perimeter to protect students. You wonder if dragging a caregiver out of a daycare screaming, in full view of small children, was just too unimaginably ghoulish to anticipate and prepare for.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Chicago all day every day now. I'm not even sure the rest of the country realizes what it's like here now.