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.
Welp. 11 hours in an airport today leading to a cancellation. But Ohio State won and we met a nice gentleman from Krakozhia so overall fine.
November 30, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Welp. 11 hours in an airport today leading to a cancellation. But Ohio State won and we met a nice gentleman from Krakozhia so overall fine.
The Trump administration seems to have skipped the manufacturing consent part of going to war to boost your failing presidency.
November 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The Trump administration seems to have skipped the manufacturing consent part of going to war to boost your failing presidency.
Fire Ryan Day now. Out of an abundance of caution.
November 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Fire Ryan Day now. Out of an abundance of caution.
Damn, this Suns team bears no relation to the sad boys they were putting on the floor last year. Like “alligator blood,” hanging around.
November 29, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Damn, this Suns team bears no relation to the sad boys they were putting on the floor last year. Like “alligator blood,” hanging around.
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The Reveal's Black Friday Sale Starts... NOW!
This is the sale you've been waiting for! But it won't last forever.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Attention, shoppers! We’re having a Black Friday sale at The Reveal. 20% for first-time subscribers. There is much behind that paywall, plus access to comments and our excellent Discord server: thereveal.film/the-reveals-...
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Jalen Williams back?
November 28, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Jalen Williams back?
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HAMNET (Chloé Zhao, 2025)
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
HAMNET (Chloé Zhao, 2025)
Good god, that was a BIG halftime show. I’m old enough to remember Thanksgiving as the Lions getting drubbed in the Silverdome. It was a very austere tradition and we deserved it!
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Good god, that was a BIG halftime show. I’m old enough to remember Thanksgiving as the Lions getting drubbed in the Silverdome. It was a very austere tradition and we deserved it!
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Sixers' Tyrese Maxey takes a shot at running pups Howie & Spike through the agility course at the National Dog Show, still some kinks to work out 😂 (r @gettinggophery.bsky.social)
November 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Sixers' Tyrese Maxey takes a shot at running pups Howie & Spike through the agility course at the National Dog Show, still some kinks to work out 😂 (r @gettinggophery.bsky.social)
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yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
OKC just doesn’t make mental mistakes. Like if any Thunder player had been Jaden McDaniels tonight, they’d have lost. Like, don’t give points away out of frustration.
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 AM
OKC just doesn’t make mental mistakes. Like if any Thunder player had been Jaden McDaniels tonight, they’d have lost. Like, don’t give points away out of frustration.
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the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)
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Also, today we have reviews of HAMNET (that's by me) and THE SECRET AGENT (by @scotttobias.bsky.social):
In Review: ‘Hamnet,’ ‘The Secret Agent’
Great Movie Season in full bloom today with a different kind of Shakespeare tragedy and a personal film about life under Brazilian dictatorship.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Also, today we have reviews of HAMNET (that's by me) and THE SECRET AGENT (by @scotttobias.bsky.social):
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It sure looks like something wildly disgusting happened here. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It sure looks like something wildly disgusting happened here. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
At the in-laws for Thanksgiving and it’s truly breathtaking how shitty movies look when motion-smoothed. It’s like the visual equivalent of someone farting in a room. Drives you right out.
November 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
At the in-laws for Thanksgiving and it’s truly breathtaking how shitty movies look when motion-smoothed. It’s like the visual equivalent of someone farting in a room. Drives you right out.
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Much as I’d like to watch more insane shotmaking from five first-ballot future Hall of Famers, I am on the east coast and can’t justify staying up until 1:30 am to finish this game. These 11 pm ET starts are insane!
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Much as I’d like to watch more insane shotmaking from five first-ballot future Hall of Famers, I am on the east coast and can’t justify staying up until 1:30 am to finish this game. These 11 pm ET starts are insane!
Me when the Boursin and crackers come out at Thanksgiving.
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Me when the Boursin and crackers come out at Thanksgiving.
Yes. This superbly directed film will hollow out your insides. Also affirms my basic opinion that water polo is like if drowning were a sport.
Niche post for critics and movie-awards-season nerds: Don't sleep on The Plague, a superb, excruciatingly tense American debut film--not horror, but in its way terrifying--about being a 12- or 13-year-old boy among other 12- or 13-year-old boys. Opens next month; it's haunted me since I saw it.
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Yes. This superbly directed film will hollow out your insides. Also affirms my basic opinion that water polo is like if drowning were a sport.
The new KNIVES OUT is very good, and we should admire the high degree of difficulty on whodunits, which are ridiculously hard to pull off: thereveal.film/in-review-wa...
In Review: ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery,’ ‘Zootopia 2’
The first of our Thanksgiving week review batches features two sequels, one more essential than the other.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The new KNIVES OUT is very good, and we should admire the high degree of difficulty on whodunits, which are ridiculously hard to pull off: thereveal.film/in-review-wa...
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
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Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
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It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
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www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.