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...
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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.
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I make no claim to any particular expertise in this regard, but Good Things and Good People beating Bad People and Bad Things feels like the sort of thing you want to get excited about and the sort of thing definitely worth repeating.
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I make no claim to any particular expertise in this regard, but Good Things and Good People beating Bad People and Bad Things feels like the sort of thing you want to get excited about and the sort of thing definitely worth repeating.
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Ok. Reposting with some corrections (because it’s good to get the title of the film you’re writing about correct.) thereveal.film/the-awful-tr...
November 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Ok. Reposting with some corrections (because it’s good to get the title of the film you’re writing about correct.) thereveal.film/the-awful-tr...
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It might be my favorite movie podcast setup. A film from the past speaks to us and is in conversation with a new release.
8 1/2 meets DRACULA
Bonus: I think I've never heard @tasharobinson.bsky.social @kphipps3000.bsky.social and @scotttobias.bsky.social talk about 8 1/2. Great episode!
8 1/2 meets DRACULA
Bonus: I think I've never heard @tasharobinson.bsky.social @kphipps3000.bsky.social and @scotttobias.bsky.social talk about 8 1/2. Great episode!
New ep! Radu Jude's latest wild provocation, DRACULA, inspired a look back at a previous surreal story about a filmmaker fumbling for ideas: Federico Fellini's startlingly meta 1963 movie 8 1/2, with a thinly veiled Fellini trying to define the movie as you watch it. cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...
November 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
It might be my favorite movie podcast setup. A film from the past speaks to us and is in conversation with a new release.
8 1/2 meets DRACULA
Bonus: I think I've never heard @tasharobinson.bsky.social @kphipps3000.bsky.social and @scotttobias.bsky.social talk about 8 1/2. Great episode!
8 1/2 meets DRACULA
Bonus: I think I've never heard @tasharobinson.bsky.social @kphipps3000.bsky.social and @scotttobias.bsky.social talk about 8 1/2. Great episode!
Ok. Reposting with some corrections (because it’s good to get the title of the film you’re writing about correct.) thereveal.film/the-awful-tr...
November 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Ok. Reposting with some corrections (because it’s good to get the title of the film you’re writing about correct.) thereveal.film/the-awful-tr...
Today at The Reveal: I wrote about THE WAR GAME and PUNISHMENT PARK, two films by the late Peter Watkins that simultaneously feel like product of their times and of ours:
The Awful Truths: Peter Watkins’ ‘The War Game’ and ‘Paranoid Park’
A pair of films from the late British director blur documentary and fiction to reveal grim possible tomorrows.
thereveal.film
November 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Today at The Reveal: I wrote about THE WAR GAME and PUNISHMENT PARK, two films by the late Peter Watkins that simultaneously feel like product of their times and of ours:
One of those actors who instantly made any movie she appeared in better just by showing up. (Even CARNOSAUR.)
Breaking News: The actress Diane Ladd has died at 89. She was an Oscar contender for three roles, including one in which she starred alongside her daughter, Laura Dern.
Diane Ladd, Oscar-Nominated Actress and Mother of Laura Dern, Dies at 89
She was a three-time Oscar contender playing strikingly different characters, in once case starring alongside her daughter and fellow nominee, Laura Dern.
nyti.ms
November 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
One of those actors who instantly made any movie she appeared in better just by showing up. (Even CARNOSAUR.)
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Out on patrol. ICE very active on the far North Side including Edgewater and Lincoln Square. Multiple abductions. Vulnerable folks should get off the street if they can. Street vendors should be bought out, landscapers warned. If you’re in Chicago and you’re not ICE watch trained, pls get trained.
November 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Out on patrol. ICE very active on the far North Side including Edgewater and Lincoln Square. Multiple abductions. Vulnerable folks should get off the street if they can. Street vendors should be bought out, landscapers warned. If you’re in Chicago and you’re not ICE watch trained, pls get trained.
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In Netflix’s “A House of Dynamite,” Chicago is the target of a nuclear attack
In real life, Chicago is also home to Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded in 1945 by people involved in the Manhattan Project to warn us about these very risks
I talked with them about the movie’s themes
Gift 🔗
In real life, Chicago is also home to Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded in 1945 by people involved in the Manhattan Project to warn us about these very risks
I talked with them about the movie’s themes
Gift 🔗
In Kathryn Bigelow’s new film, Chicago is the target of a nuclear attack. Does the movie reflect reality?
Experts with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in Chicago analyze the risks, both as they’re depicted in the movie and in the real world.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
In Netflix’s “A House of Dynamite,” Chicago is the target of a nuclear attack
In real life, Chicago is also home to Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded in 1945 by people involved in the Manhattan Project to warn us about these very risks
I talked with them about the movie’s themes
Gift 🔗
In real life, Chicago is also home to Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded in 1945 by people involved in the Manhattan Project to warn us about these very risks
I talked with them about the movie’s themes
Gift 🔗
Nine more innings?
November 2, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Nine more innings?
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For @vulture.com I ranked cinematic Satans:
The 20 Most Memorable Cinematic Depictions of Satan
Beelzebub, Lucifer, Mephistopheles, the Father of Lies … Satan goes by many names and has been in many movies, too.
www.vulture.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:22 AM
For @vulture.com I ranked cinematic Satans:
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I've left Substack for Ghost and I think this is a great way to give back to the community.
TODAY ONLY: If you show me that you've donated $20 or more to a local food bank, you'll get a free six-month subscription to the new @itsthepicpod.bsky.social newsletter.
November 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I've left Substack for Ghost and I think this is a great way to give back to the community.
For @vulture.com I ranked cinematic Satans:
The 20 Most Memorable Cinematic Depictions of Satan
Beelzebub, Lucifer, Mephistopheles, the Father of Lies … Satan goes by many names and has been in many movies, too.
www.vulture.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:22 AM
For @vulture.com I ranked cinematic Satans: