Happy birthday to Jack Nicholson. If you think his performance in THE SHINING is bad, and I know you people are out there, then in my opinion you should just go eat a bag of shit.

Extremely Online: 'Antitrust' Our new column on films in the internet age looks back at time when Bill Gates was the boogeyman of Silicon Valley.

For The Reveal, I started up a new column type today called "Extremely Online" that digs into films about the internet age, from the '90s to the present. First up is ANTITRUST, a thriller about the deadly allergens of Bill Gates and sesame seeds: thereveal.film/extremely-on...

The ‘80s in 40: ‘Red Dawn’ (August 1984) What if the Russians took over the United States? It might look a little like this 1984 action movie that turns American teens into guerrilla fighters.

Today at The Reveal: My ongoing '80s in 40 column reaches August 1984 with a look at RED DAWN:

The Mystery of the Private Detective What does your taste in these genre heroes say about you?

What does your taste in mystery-fiction main characters say about you? Here’s what mine says about me.

The answer is AUDITION. My pal @gemko.bsky.social once said that the perfect experience with that film would be to have a trusted friend that knows your taste hand you an unlabeled copy in a paper bag.

A Violent Masterpiece - BOOK TRAILER YouTube video by A Violent Masterpiece

Look:

A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE by Jordan Harper
book trailer
directed by Ijaaz Noohu

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Our series, RUBBLE NOIR, begins May 3 with Carol Reed’s masterful THE THIRD MAN. After the war, these carcasses of great cities bred desperation and crime of all kinds. The films noir made in these environs are some of the best ever made.Tickets at Trylon.org

Gotta read up on De Sica now

Without stating your age, post your favorite film released the year you turned 18 (I have two).

So many terrific films that year but it’s hard to argue against Tom Ripley

Without saying your age, post your favorite film released the year you turned 18.

Last rewatch was almost six years ago. Might be time to run through the HANEKEs again

Without stating your age, post your favorite film released the year you turned 18.

John Ford was a huge fan of F.W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, which starred George O'Brien & Janet Gaynor, two Ford alumni. He went on record calling it "the greatest picture that has been produced"

He did Night Falls on Manhattan a bit later but it isn’t as tremendous as those three corruption movies (though still good)

Was knocked out by that one a few years back.

MSPIFF 2026 - Part Two Back at it again for the second week of the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival. If you have not checked out the first part o...

Part two of my MSPIFF coverage is live! Lots of good to great movies. I especially loved THE BLUE TRAIL and also dug MARAMA, ROMERIA, and BLUE HERON. Check it out: kino-ventura.blogspot.com/2026/04/mspi...

Daniel Woodrell's chair from the set of RIDE WITH THE DEVIL

Fittingly, a white flag that no one can read unless you pull it out and wave it in defeat

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Happy Birthday to the late great William Holden, born William Franklin Beedle Jr. 108 years ago today

Went in blind to ART BRUT and came out on fire for them. Catch them if you can for they are truly something to see.

#lastfourwatched

In Review: ‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy,’ ‘Normal,’ ‘Blue Heron’ Mummies, guns, and troubling memories: This week's new releases have it all.

Review day at The Reveal includes me on Some Guy You Had To Look Up on IMDb's The Mummy and Sophy Romvari's clever and sneakily devastating Blue Heron. Also, @kphipps3000.bsky.social is having a Normal one. thereveal.film/in-review-le...

For something that just barely came together for me on first watch, I sure think about FUGITIVE KIND often. Might be due for another look.

Classic Corner: The Fugitive Kind — Crooked Marquee “It’s Xavier,” he mumbles.

On Sidney Lumet’s “The Fugitive Kind,” released on this day in 1960:

LYNTON sounds very cool but the mention of DAVID LEAN’s 1950 “gaslight noir” MADELEINE also intrigued me. It is on criterion channel right now.

Sunn O))) play loud enough to make an old church shed plaster - Bullseye with Jesse Thorn YouTube video by Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Everyone has been demanding that the bone-liquifying metal band Sunn O)) go on @npr.org and we at @bullseye.maximumfun.org have acceded to these demands.

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‘Waterloo’: The Film That (Maybe) Defeated Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Napoleon’ Stanley Kubrick really wanted to make a biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte as his follow-up to '2001: A Space Odyssey.' And he might have gotten away with it if it weren't for this meddling film.

For The Reveal I wrote about WATERLOO, the 1970 film whose failure maybe (probably?) led to the cancellation of Stanley Kubrick's NAPOLEON and maybe (probably?) led him to make BARRY LYNDON instead: