Keith Phipps

Pop Culture Writer/Editor

Keith Phipps is an experienced writer and editor specializing in pop culture, particularly film and television. Keith’s work experience includes time as an editor at The Dissolve, The A.V. Club and Uproxx. As a freelance writer, he’s contributed to Rolling Stone, Slate, The Daily Beast, GQ, The Verge, and other publications. Keith lives in Chicago with his family and can be found on Twitter at @kphipps3000.

Podcasts

The Next Picture Show is a biweekly roundtable by the former editorial team of The Dissolve examining how classic films inspire and inform modern movies. Episodes take a deep dive into a classic film and its legacy in the first half, then compare and contrast that film with a modern successor in the second. Hosted and produced by Genevieve Koski, Keith Phipps, Tasha Robinson and Scott Tobias. Part of the Filmspotting family of podcasts.

Latest Episode of The Next Picture Show

Guest Appearances

Culturally Relevant

Keeping the Flame of Film Criticism Alive with 'The Reveal' (with Keith Phipps)
10/3/21

David chats with film critic Keith Phipps about what's happening in the world of film and film criticism, as Keith launches a new subscriber-funded newsletter, "The Reveal."

Fun City Cinema

Tribute in Light
8/30/2021

When the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center fell on September 11, 2001, New York City was changed forever: its skyline, its people, its mood. And its films were changed as well – some more immediately than others, as filmmakers struggled to determine how to deal with the now ghostly presence of the towers in films completed but not released before 9/11.

 Some films edited them out, some digitally removed them. But Brooklyn’s own Spike Lee went the opposite direction, adding the tragedy into his film “25th Hour,” which was slated to shoot in the city that fall and winter. In doing so, he ended up crafting what we now consider the definitive post-9/11 New York movie.

We’ll hear archival audio of Lee and star Edward Norton explaining that decision and that process, and we’ll break down the film that resulted, with the help of film critics Roxana Hadadi, Keith Phipps, and Scott Tobias, as well as filmmaker Jennifer Westfeldt (“Kissing Jessica Stein”).

Content warning: From 3:36 to 7:41, you will hear audio of news reports from 9/11.

Film at Fifty

A celebration of semicentennials in the world of cinema! Each week Brian Rowe and a guest review a film released fifty years ago and discuss an actor, director, or genre affiliated with that film.

The Beguiled with Keith Phipps (author of Age of Cage)
4/2/2021