Keith Phipps

Yep.

Confidential to Annie (last name unknown), a woman in Philadelphia who apparently used my email address to sign up for a dating service over the weekend: I hope you find the love you're looking for but I'd rather not be involved in the process.

I’d forgotten that Baby Nathan Fillion is in SAVING PRIVATE RYAN.

The Laser Age: ‘Mighty Joe Young’ with Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa On this episode, film studies professor Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa joins the show to talk about 'Mighty Joe Young,' a 1949 companion piece to 'King Kong' starring Kong's kinder cousin.

Today at The Reveal: It's a new episode of The Laser Age. @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social joins me to talk about MIGHTY JOE YOUNG, misguided 20th century science, and what the two have in common:

Inspired by seeing his Walmart ads during every World Baseball Classic break.

Check out @scotttobias.bsky.social and @kphipps3000.bsky.social at The Reveal. Great writers who remember that film has a history, bring interesting perspectives to the table, and know how to craft a sentence. I’ve been reading them for (Jesus!) more than 25 years and regret none of them.

2024: Probably not enough Walton Goggins

2025: Proper level of Walton Goggins

2026: Dangerously approaching too much Walton Goggins

The Five Spot: Twirling Mustaches, Stone Heists, And Wooing Zendaya Yes, I'm posting the Umbrella video again.

THIS WEEK IN THE FIVE SPOT

-- Colin Firth is having a blast
-- the curling stone heist is somehow only my second favorite heist of the week
-- I love when the video of Tom Holland lip-synching to Umbrella becomes relevant again

AND MORE

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I got to watch a 13-0 Japan vs. Chinese Taipei drubbing over breakfast this morning.

I'm game for whatever.

Somehow I missed that @kphipps3000.bsky.social has a podcast about pre-Y2K sci fi films! With a bunch of smart people I respect! And this one has @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social on it!
How exciting!

Surprisingly tense Mexico vs Great Britain matchup happening at the World Baseball Classic right now.

The Laser Age: ‘Mighty Joe Young’ with Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa On this episode, film studies professor Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa joins the show to talk about 'Mighty Joe Young,' a 1949 companion piece to 'King Kong' starring Kong's kinder cousin.

Today at The Reveal: It's a new episode of The Laser Age. @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social joins me to talk about MIGHTY JOE YOUNG, misguided 20th century science, and what the two have in common:

Picking the Best Casting Oscar for Each of the Past 25 Years There’s a new statuette at the Oscars this year, so we decided who should’ve won it for each year of the 21st century

I contributed to @theringer.com.web.brid.gy's retroactive casting Oscars. It's a fun read. I wrote the entry for 2009 (a competitive year with a clear winner, to my eyes:

For @tvguide.com I reviewed ROOSTER, a new comedy starring Steve Carell and created by Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses. It's not _quite_ there yet but I enjoyed the six episodes I watched. The deep-bench cast helps: Danielle Deadwyler is great as always as is Charly Clive (who's new to me):

Well... Huh. These things happen.

In Review: ‘The Bride!,’ ‘Hoppers’ Animated critters? Reanimated molls? This week's new releases offer both options.

Today at The Reveal: Reviews of THE BRIDE! by me (the exclamation point is part of the title) and HOPPERS (no exclamation point, and @scotttobias.bsky.social wasn't that excited by it):

Mads Mikkelsen in Bleeder.

Me watching your movie.

The Rebirth of Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Birth’ Following Jonathan Glazer's peculiar reincarnation tale down the bumpy path to respectability.

For The Reveal, I wrote about Jonathan Glazer’s BIRTH, in which an everlasting love that transcends death is, more simply and unromantically, grief: thereveal.film/the-rebirth-...

Casting two English actors as the hero and villain of this otherwise very American movie gives North by Northwest a weird energy. Grant plays everything Yanks like about Brits while Mason gets to play the opposite. There’s something rotten beneath those impeccable manners and literate airs. He might be impossibly handsome and clever, but, here and elsewhere, Grant seems approachable. Mason plays Vandamm as a man who looks at almost everyone else like something he scraped off his shoe. That he’s betraying and trying to escape the uncultured United States of America makes a lot of sense for the character.

I know I did but I doubt I'm the only one.

If you aren’t following The Reveal (and, if you can, paying for it), you should start now. Then catch up on all of these Sight and Sound 100 Best conversations. I am always excited when the notification shows up for a new one!

Without reading the nest post I thought you were talking about Vin Diesel.

Dalton points

The moment in Alex Ross Perry’s VIDEOHEAVEN when narrator Maya Hawke talks about a clip from STRANGER THINGS in which she appears.

that's a very good idea for a project

#45 (tie): ‘North by Northwest’: The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time Cary Grant is a man wrongfully accused in the first of four Hitchcock films to make the list. Is it one of Hitch's masterpieces or just frothy entertainment? We'll try to figure it out.

Today at The Reveal: @scotttobias.bsky.social continue to watch every movie in Sight and Sound's 100 best list. We're at #45 which is also somehow the first Hitchcock on the list. It's a good one, too:

All this plus apologize for letting ICE use Target stores as a staging area and make it policy to refuse them in the future.

Catalog Club: Ramones' "Ramones" (1976) Our new series starts with an iconic album that came out 50 years ago this spring

This month's Catalog Club series on the Ramones begins today with the self-titled debut, which turns 50 this spring. My challenge: Can a music critic in 2026 actually say something original about this band?
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So we’re just supposed to try to go about our lives today.

what if we did 2003 again but with even stupider people in charge of everything