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Jun 23, 2025 • Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias

A Note to Our Readers: The Reveal is moving.

But it's really not that big of a deal.

Jun 23, 2025 • Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias

Open Question: Have you used the movies as a travel agent?

Sometimes escapism can give you a real place to escape.

Jun 20, 2025 • Scott Tobias

In Review: '28 Years Later,' 'Elio'

A zombie classic gets a decades-later sequel that doesn't play by the rules and Pixar delivers a pleasant kids' film.l

Jun 19, 2025 • Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias

An Interview with Gheorghe Zamfir, Master of the Pan Flute and Film Soundtrack Hero

The famed Romanian musician discusses his contributions to the world of film.

Jun 18, 2025 • Keith Phipps

#59: ‘Sans Soleil’: The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time

Chris Marker's unclassifiable cinematic essay circles the world in search of wonders while pondering the nature of memory, history, and time.

Jun 17, 2025 • Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias

Open Question: What's the greatest concert performance captured on film?

It's not easy to capture energy and power of a live concert. But sometimes everything comes together anyway.

Jun 13, 2025 • Keith Phipps

In Review: 'Materialists,' 'Echo Valley'

Celine Song follows up 'Past Lives' with a look at love and money in modern New York while Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney try to spark some acting…

Jun 12, 2025 • Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias

Michael Crichton's Corporate Freakouts

At the peak of his popularity in the mid-'90s, Michael Crichton issued dire warnings about questionable threats to corporate culture.

Jun 11, 2025 • Scott Tobias

Jaws, Too: The Story of ‘Sharks’ Treasure,’ the Other Shark Movie Released in 1975

Fifty years ago, a movie about deadly shark encounters arrived in theaters after a long, difficult shoot. No, not that one.

Jun 10, 2025 • Keith Phipps

Open Question: What movies get online life right?

We live much of our lives online these days. Which films have captured that feeling?

Jun 6, 2025 • Keith Phipps

In Review: 'The Life of Chuck,' 'Ballerina'

Two films from the worlds of Stephen King and John Wick deliver on their brands.

Jun 5, 2025 • Scott Tobias and Keith Phipps