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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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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People who are appalled by this obviously don’t understand that publishing a nude painting of yourself when you assume a new editorial position is a tradition that dates back to (at least) William Shawn. Know your history before sounding off.
I regret to inform you there is more Olivia Newzzi: the print VF will feature a nude portrait by artist Isabelle Brourman that is also destined for Art Basel Miami Beach. Notably, its inclusion appears be a surprise to VF staff. VF looking worse and worse here. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
People who are appalled by this obviously don’t understand that publishing a nude painting of yourself when you assume a new editorial position is a tradition that dates back to (at least) William Shawn. Know your history before sounding off.
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Woodworking is on NPR's top books of 2025 list, and as a longtime user of NPR's book lists to purchase holiday gifts and add stuff to my library list, I am so glad to think some alternate universe version of myself might decide to check out my new book!
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Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Woodworking is on NPR's top books of 2025 list, and as a longtime user of NPR's book lists to purchase holiday gifts and add stuff to my library list, I am so glad to think some alternate universe version of myself might decide to check out my new book!
apps.npr.org/best-books/?...
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My dogs never seem stupider than when they bark at the UPS guy delivering their food.
November 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
My dogs never seem stupider than when they bark at the UPS guy delivering their food.
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Today at The Reveal: It's a pair of reviews. You can read @scotttobias.bsky.social on WICKED: FOR GOOD and read me on the clever (sort of) true-crime doc ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT. Which will top the weekend's box office?
In Review: ‘Wicked: For Good,’ ‘Zodiac Killer Project’
The second part of "Wicked" exposes the flaws of a front-loaded musical and a true-crime doc deconstructs the true-crime doc.
thereveal.film
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Today at The Reveal: It's a pair of reviews. You can read @scotttobias.bsky.social on WICKED: FOR GOOD and read me on the clever (sort of) true-crime doc ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT. Which will top the weekend's box office?
Today at The Reveal: It's a pair of reviews. You can read @scotttobias.bsky.social on WICKED: FOR GOOD and read me on the clever (sort of) true-crime doc ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT. Which will top the weekend's box office?
In Review: ‘Wicked: For Good,’ ‘Zodiac Killer Project’
The second part of "Wicked" exposes the flaws of a front-loaded musical and a true-crime doc deconstructs the true-crime doc.
thereveal.film
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Today at The Reveal: It's a pair of reviews. You can read @scotttobias.bsky.social on WICKED: FOR GOOD and read me on the clever (sort of) true-crime doc ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT. Which will top the weekend's box office?
I do not know this person but I would not have discovered Jucika without them so I pitched in.
fundraiser to pay for an emergency kidney procedure, we still have $17,000 left to raise, anything truly helps gofund.me/16ef32cb1
Donate to Support Genc (aka @JucikaDaily, @GENCZILLA), organized by Genczilla V
Fundraiser Update 12/06/2024
Thank you guys so much. We were able to reach… Genczilla V needs your support for Support Genc (aka @JucikaDaily, @GENCZILLA)
gofund.me
November 20, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I do not know this person but I would not have discovered Jucika without them so I pitched in.
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A little over 10 years ago, The Dissolve shuttered and we started a niche movie podcast that only we had the power to shut down. This week, we celebrate the 500th episode of The Next Picture Show with a special episode on the film that inspired the title: megaphone.link/FILM9131237121
#500: What's In a Name — The Last Picture Show by The Next Picture Show
A decade of podcasting.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
A little over 10 years ago, The Dissolve shuttered and we started a niche movie podcast that only we had the power to shut down. This week, we celebrate the 500th episode of The Next Picture Show with a special episode on the film that inspired the title: megaphone.link/FILM9131237121
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You know what I don't post about enough? THE NEXT PICTURE SHOW, the podcast @tasharobinson.bsky.social, @genevievekoski.bsky.social, @scotttobias.bsky.social and I have been making since The Dissolve folded. We're 10 years and 500 episodes into so we recorded an anniversary episode:
Filmspotting's The Next Picture Show — Filmspotting
www.filmspotting.net
November 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
You know what I don't post about enough? THE NEXT PICTURE SHOW, the podcast @tasharobinson.bsky.social, @genevievekoski.bsky.social, @scotttobias.bsky.social and I have been making since The Dissolve folded. We're 10 years and 500 episodes into so we recorded an anniversary episode:
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A couple times a year, I use raves from trusted critics to catch up on great films I've missed. Today's batch comes courtesy of @justincchang.bsky.social, @alisonwillmore.bsky.social, @samadams.bsky.social, Jeannette Catsoulis and my pal @kphipps3000.bsky.social. thereveal.film/catching-up-...
Catching Up with the Critics, Part II (Fall 2025)
Deep into prestige season, it's time again to turn to trusted colleagues to see what I've missed.
thereveal.film
November 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
A couple times a year, I use raves from trusted critics to catch up on great films I've missed. Today's batch comes courtesy of @justincchang.bsky.social, @alisonwillmore.bsky.social, @samadams.bsky.social, Jeannette Catsoulis and my pal @kphipps3000.bsky.social. thereveal.film/catching-up-...
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I love this podcast. More people should love this podcast.
You know what I don't post about enough? THE NEXT PICTURE SHOW, the podcast @tasharobinson.bsky.social, @genevievekoski.bsky.social, @scotttobias.bsky.social and I have been making since The Dissolve folded. We're 10 years and 500 episodes into so we recorded an anniversary episode:
Filmspotting's The Next Picture Show — Filmspotting
www.filmspotting.net
November 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I love this podcast. More people should love this podcast.
You know what I don't post about enough? THE NEXT PICTURE SHOW, the podcast @tasharobinson.bsky.social, @genevievekoski.bsky.social, @scotttobias.bsky.social and I have been making since The Dissolve folded. We're 10 years and 500 episodes into so we recorded an anniversary episode:
Filmspotting's The Next Picture Show — Filmspotting
www.filmspotting.net
November 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
You know what I don't post about enough? THE NEXT PICTURE SHOW, the podcast @tasharobinson.bsky.social, @genevievekoski.bsky.social, @scotttobias.bsky.social and I have been making since The Dissolve folded. We're 10 years and 500 episodes into so we recorded an anniversary episode:
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Today at The Reveal: I wrote about Diane Keaton. Specifically, I wrote about HEAVEN, her mostly forgotten directorial debut, but also about what made her such a compelling presence, even when playing characters who weren't the driving forces in their own lives:
Diane Keaton in ‘Heaven’
Keaton made her directorial debut with a quirky 1987 documentary that kept her off camera while still capturing the elusive essence that helped make her a star.
thereveal.film
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Today at The Reveal: I wrote about Diane Keaton. Specifically, I wrote about HEAVEN, her mostly forgotten directorial debut, but also about what made her such a compelling presence, even when playing characters who weren't the driving forces in their own lives:
Today at The Reveal: I wrote about Diane Keaton. Specifically, I wrote about HEAVEN, her mostly forgotten directorial debut, but also about what made her such a compelling presence, even when playing characters who weren't the driving forces in their own lives:
Diane Keaton in ‘Heaven’
Keaton made her directorial debut with a quirky 1987 documentary that kept her off camera while still capturing the elusive essence that helped make her a star.
thereveal.film
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Today at The Reveal: I wrote about Diane Keaton. Specifically, I wrote about HEAVEN, her mostly forgotten directorial debut, but also about what made her such a compelling presence, even when playing characters who weren't the driving forces in their own lives:
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
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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.
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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: