Scott Tobias
@scotttobias.bsky.social
Film/TV writer. Co-host: The Next Picture Show podcast. Author of The Reveal newsletter (thereveal.film) with Keith Phipps. I got a houseboat docked at the Himbo Dome.
Finally the perfect time to roll out my picture of the haunted Wendy’s across from my hotel in Ann Arbor a couple years ago ago. She’s like Annabelle here!
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Finally the perfect time to roll out my picture of the haunted Wendy’s across from my hotel in Ann Arbor a couple years ago ago. She’s like Annabelle here!
Hollywood knew what people wanted in 1987 and it was Yaphet Kotto in a skintight Adidas body suit.
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Hollywood knew what people wanted in 1987 and it was Yaphet Kotto in a skintight Adidas body suit.
I don't know how we come back from this: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
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November 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I don't know how we come back from this: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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A great-movie avalanche lately continues for me with new films by Joachim Trier and Lynne Ramsay. (The four main performances in the former are just astoundingly good.) And @kphipps3000.bsky.social gets a good performance, too, in only a so-so biopic. thereveal.film/in-review-se...
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 4:16 PM
A great-movie avalanche lately continues for me with new films by Joachim Trier and Lynne Ramsay. (The four main performances in the former are just astoundingly good.) And @kphipps3000.bsky.social gets a good performance, too, in only a so-so biopic. thereveal.film/in-review-se...
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I'm told the first two episodes of PLURIBUS have been posted to Apple TV+ already, and I encourage you strongly to watch them, because they're superb. And then, if you'd like, you can read my recaps this season for @vulture. My thoughts on the premiere: www.vulture.com/article/plur...
Pluribus Series-Premiere Recap: They Live
Vince Gilligan’s new series hits us with a grand-scale alien apocalypse while telling us tantalizingly little about what it all means.
www.vulture.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I'm told the first two episodes of PLURIBUS have been posted to Apple TV+ already, and I encourage you strongly to watch them, because they're superb. And then, if you'd like, you can read my recaps this season for @vulture. My thoughts on the premiere: www.vulture.com/article/plur...
I'm told the first two episodes of PLURIBUS have been posted to Apple TV+ already, and I encourage you strongly to watch them, because they're superb. And then, if you'd like, you can read my recaps this season for @vulture. My thoughts on the premiere: www.vulture.com/article/plur...
Pluribus Series-Premiere Recap: They Live
Vince Gilligan’s new series hits us with a grand-scale alien apocalypse while telling us tantalizingly little about what it all means.
www.vulture.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I'm told the first two episodes of PLURIBUS have been posted to Apple TV+ already, and I encourage you strongly to watch them, because they're superb. And then, if you'd like, you can read my recaps this season for @vulture. My thoughts on the premiere: www.vulture.com/article/plur...
I picture an aging Mac McClung, now a G League vet, sitting in the team bus like Kevin Costner in Bull Durham, telling the young prospects of what his short time in "the show" was like. ("The arenas are like cathedrals, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains.")
The Indiana Pacers are waiving guard Mac McClung, sources tell ESPN. The reigning three-time NBA dunk contest champion signed a multiyear, non-guaranteed with the Pacers last week and scored 6.3 points in 11.3 minutes per game over three contests.
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I picture an aging Mac McClung, now a G League vet, sitting in the team bus like Kevin Costner in Bull Durham, telling the young prospects of what his short time in "the show" was like. ("The arenas are like cathedrals, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains.")
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12 Hangry Men.
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.
November 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
12 Hangry Men.
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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):
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This series is terrific, don’t let it slip by - great work from Michael Shannon and a show stopper bonkers performance from Matthew Macfadyen.
I binge-capped the new Netflix series DEATH BY LIGHTNING for @vulture. Tremendously entertaining show about our American tradition of progress being undone by violent, fame-seeking dipshits. www.vulture.com/article/deat...
Death by Lightning Series-Premiere Recap: A Man Can Be Anyone
Two very different sorts of narcissist — the 20th U.S. president and the man who shot him — set off on a crash course for the history books.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This series is terrific, don’t let it slip by - great work from Michael Shannon and a show stopper bonkers performance from Matthew Macfadyen.
I binge-capped the new Netflix series DEATH BY LIGHTNING for @vulture. Tremendously entertaining show about our American tradition of progress being undone by violent, fame-seeking dipshits. www.vulture.com/article/deat...
Death by Lightning Series-Premiere Recap: A Man Can Be Anyone
Two very different sorts of narcissist — the 20th U.S. president and the man who shot him — set off on a crash course for the history books.
www.vulture.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I binge-capped the new Netflix series DEATH BY LIGHTNING for @vulture. Tremendously entertaining show about our American tradition of progress being undone by violent, fame-seeking dipshits. www.vulture.com/article/deat...
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tomorrow, free our caregivers
November 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
tomorrow, free our caregivers
Just returned from the North Center protest, held in response to the abduction of a daycare teacher this morning in our neighborhood. Huge turnout for something organized so quickly. Here are some crappy pictures I took! (1/2)
November 6, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Just returned from the North Center protest, held in response to the abduction of a daycare teacher this morning in our neighborhood. Huge turnout for something organized so quickly. Here are some crappy pictures I took! (1/2)
This is happening tonight, too, if you're in the neighborhood.
November 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This is happening tonight, too, if you're in the neighborhood.
For my first feature for @latimes.com, I talked to director Clint Bentley, his writing partner Greg Kwedar, and Joel Edgerton about TRAIN DREAMS, an intimate epic I'd encourage you to see in theaters before it hits Netflix later this month: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
From a quiet story about a logger, they knew they could build an American epic
Filmmaking duo Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar tell low-key stories about dreamers. Teaming with actor Joel Edgerton, they went into the woods and emerged with something poetic.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
For my first feature for @latimes.com, I talked to director Clint Bentley, his writing partner Greg Kwedar, and Joel Edgerton about TRAIN DREAMS, an intimate epic I'd encourage you to see in theaters before it hits Netflix later this month: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Every day, the Trump administration feels like some Bialystock and Bloom production.
I reached out to a White House spokesperson for comment. They said “the pope doesn't know what he’s talking about.”
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV Denounces Trump-Vance Decision to Block Eucharist from ICE Detainees
After ICE refuses to allow detained migrants to receive the Eucharist, Pope Leo calls on Trump and Vance to respect migrants‘ dignity and religious liberty.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Every day, the Trump administration feels like some Bialystock and Bloom production.
I never felt Fincher's THE KILLER got much of a shake before slipping to Netflix two years ago. So for The Reveal, I wrote about how the world's fussiest director made a film about human fallibility. thereveal.film/david-finche...
David Fincher's ’The Killer’: Confessions of an Imperfectionist
With his stripped-down Netflix thriller, David Fincher exposes the folly of a perfect assassin.
thereveal.film
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I never felt Fincher's THE KILLER got much of a shake before slipping to Netflix two years ago. So for The Reveal, I wrote about how the world's fussiest director made a film about human fallibility. thereveal.film/david-finche...
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 3:30 PM
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.
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the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates
Thunder just absolutely stealing the Clippers’ souls right now. Playing some of their best ball of the year on both ends.
November 5, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Thunder just absolutely stealing the Clippers’ souls right now. Playing some of their best ball of the year on both ends.
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Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.
Tough night for college sports betters:
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Tough night for college sports betters:
No elections in Illinois or my besieged city of Chicago, but there’s so much hope in a night like tonight that we do not have to live like this.
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
No elections in Illinois or my besieged city of Chicago, but there’s so much hope in a night like tonight that we do not have to live like this.
The media should not be wasting their time reporting every stupid thing these rich dunces say, even to issue a correction. If nothing else, this election should be about de-centering billionaires.
Elon Musk on Tuesday complained about the position of Andrew Cuomo’s name on the New York City ballot and the fact that it appeared only once, while Zohran Mamdani and Curtis Sliwa's names appeared twice. But the listings are in keeping with the normal rules of the city's elections. Here's why.
Why Zohran Mamdani and Curtis Sliwa Are on the Ballot Twice for NYC Mayor
The listings follow the normal rules for ballots in New York City.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The media should not be wasting their time reporting every stupid thing these rich dunces say, even to issue a correction. If nothing else, this election should be about de-centering billionaires.