Sitemap - 2021 - The Reveal
Open Question: What are your New Year's movie-watching resolutions?
Best to Worst: The Summer Blockbusters of 2001
What's a great, under-the-radar Christmas movie?
In Review: 'Licorice Pizza,' 'The Matrix Resurrections,' 'Parallel Mothers,' and 'Don't Look Up'
The New Cult Canon: 'Speed Racer'
Dialogue: 'Macbeth and the Movies': Part 3
Have You Ever Considered Giving 'The Reveal' as a Gift?
Open Question: What's your interest in reading book-to-film adaptations?
In Review: 'Spider-Man: No Way Home,' 'Nightmare Alley,' 'The Lost Daughter'
Dialogue: 'Macbeth' and the Movies: Part Two
Minding the Gaps: 'The Devil Is a Woman' (1935)
Open Question: What are your favorite unconventional Shakespeare adaptations?
In Review: 'Red Rocket,' 'West Side Story,' 'Being the Ricardos'
Dialogue: 'Macbeth' and the Movies: Part One
The limits of "You have to see it on the big screen!"
What's a movie location with which you have a surprising personal connection?
In Review: 'Benedetta,' 'The Hand of God,' 'Flee'
“Ain’t That Hard”: The Teenage Wasteland of 'Menace II Society'
Open Question: If you could see a 'Get Back'-style treatment of any album, which would it be?
The Short Goodbye: The Disappearing of 'Let It Be'
In Review: 'House of Gucci,' 'King Richard'
Open Question: What little-loved film from the last decade deserves a second look?
In Review: 'The Power of the Dog,' 'C'mon, C'mon,' 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife'
The New Cult Canon: 'The Counselor'
Open Question: What can black-and-white movies do that color movies cannot?
In review: 'Passing,' 'Belfast,' 'Red Notice'
'Melancholia' at 10: A Decade of Waiting for the End of the World
'Dr. Brain': The Taming of Kim Jae-woon
Open Question: What are your hopes and expectations for how movies and TV deal with the pandemic?
In Review: 'Eternals,' 'Spencer,' 'Finch,' and 'The Beta Test'
'The Nasty Girl': When history is written by the losers
Open Question: What are your favorite unconventional sequels?
In Review: 'Last Night in Soho,' 'Antlers,' 'The Souvenir Part II'
A Conversation with John Hodgman about 'Dune,' Pt. 2
A Conversation with John Hodgman about 'Dune,' Pt. 1
Open Question: What "unadaptable" book would you most like to see turned into a movie?
In Review: 'Dune,' 'The French Dispatch,' 'Halloween Kills'
Dreams of Arrakis: The quixotic allure of Frank Herbert's 'Dune'
1991: A Summer at the Movies, the Best Job I Ever Had, and What Came After
Open Question: What's your second favorite 'Halloween' movie?
In Review: 'The Velvet Underground,' 'Bergman Island,' 'The Last Duel'
Minding the Gaps: 'The End of Summer' (1961): “Until the moss grows”
The Best Films of the Year (* According to Metacritic, According to Me): Part II
The Best Films of the Year (*According to Metacritic, According to Me): Part 1
Open Question: Is your first James Bond destined to be your favorite James Bond?
In Review: 'No Time to Die' and 'Lamb'
Beware of Unfounded Optimism: Shin Godzilla and Other Instructive Apocalypses
Tending the garden: Why the unusual release plan for ‘Memoria’ is good for film culture
Odds and Sods: Five Thoughts on Quentin Tarantino's Novelization of 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'
Dalton, Timothy Dalton: Agent Double-O Gen X
Open Question: What's the farthest you've ever traveled to see a movie?
Dialogue: What Are Movies Worth?
In Review: 'Titane' and 'The Many Saints of Newark'
A Less Than Timely 'A Quiet Place Part II' Review (and the Context Surrounding It)
'Restrepo': The defining film about the Forever War
“Tell Me”: 'Not Fade Away' and the Little-Seen True Confessions of David Chase