# The Reveal

Deeper into movies (and a little TV). Essays, reviews, conversation. Past and present. From the editors of The Dissolve.

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## [The Reveal has relocated.](https://thereveal.substack.com/p/the-reveal-has-relocated)

_2025-06-23 · Keith Phipps_

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## [A Note to Our Readers: The Reveal is moving.](https://thereveal.substack.com/p/a-note-to-our-readers-the-reveal)

_2025-06-23 · Keith Phipps_

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

## [Open Question: Have you used the movies as a travel agent?](https://thereveal.substack.com/p/open-question-have-you-used-the-movies)

_2025-06-20 · Scott Tobias_

Sometimes escapism can give you a real place to escape.

## [In Review: '28 Years Later,' 'Elio'](https://thereveal.substack.com/p/in-review-28-years-later-elio)

_2025-06-19 · Keith Phipps_

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

## [An Interview with Gheorghe Zamfir, Master of the Pan Flute and Film Soundtrack Hero](https://thereveal.substack.com/p/an-interview-with-gheorghe-zamfir)

_2025-06-18 · Keith Phipps_

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

## [#59: ‘Sans Soleil’: The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time](https://thereveal.substack.com/p/59-sans-soleil-the-reveal-discusses)

_2025-06-17 · Keith Phipps_

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

## [Open Question: What's the greatest concert performance captured on film?](https://thereveal.substack.com/p/open-question-whats-the-greatest)

_2025-06-13 · Keith Phipps_

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

## [In Review: 'Materialists,' 'Echo Valley'](https://thereveal.substack.com/p/in-review-materialists-echo-valley)

_2025-06-12 · Keith Phipps_

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 fireworks as a troubled mother/daughter team.

## [Michael Crichton's Corporate Freakouts](https://thereveal.substack.com/p/michael-crichtons-corporate-freakouts)

_2025-06-11 · Scott Tobias_

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

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## [Jaws, Too: The Story of ‘Sharks’ Treasure,’ the Other Shark Movie Released in 1975](https://thereveal.substack.com/p/jaws-too-the-story-of-sharks-treasure)

_2025-06-10 · Keith Phipps_

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