Oscars Sale: Save 20% Off a Subscription to The Reveal

We've reached the end stage of Oscars season, that heated moment when, say, an actor's opinion about opera and ballet suddenly becomes national news. To mark the occasion, we're putting The Reveal on sale. For a limited time, you can save 20% off the first year of an annual subscription. That's just $40 for a full year of everything The Reveal publishes.

Why become a paid subscriber? For starters, it's paid subscriptions that allow us to keep The Reveal going, and growing. We are a two-person, fully independent operation dedicated to covering the world of film, past and present, but we need the support of paid subscribers to stay in business. We're as passionate about The Reveal as the day we launched and we hope that passion shows. We try to earn your support with every piece we publish. If that sounds like reason enough to become a paid subscriber, simply click below. If not, read on (and enjoy some pieces you could not access before).

But what's in it for you?

• Access to everything we publish. Goodbye paywalls! Hello features you could not access before (we've included a sampling below).
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• Access to our private Discord. Come hang out with other readers and The Reveal's editors in our robust (and fun) Discord space.
• Access to special events, like our annual Oscars live chat.

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Watch Along with The Reveal

We've started recording bespoke audio commentaries for some of our favorite movies and plan to ramp up those efforts in 2026. In fact, we're dropping a full-length audio commentary for Fargo this Friday—but only for paid subscribers. If that sounds intriguing, check out our past commentary tracks, which we've unlocked for a limited time:

Watch Along with The Reveal: Blue Velvet

Watch Along with The Reveal: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

But Wait: There's More

Here's a few subscribers-only articles we've unlocked for you.

Pee-wee's America

The Purge Saw All This Coming

Worst to Best: The Film's of Sam Raimi

Let's Watch the 1996 MTV Movie Awards!

OK, here's that offer again. But hurry: This offer will expire after the Best Picture trophy has been handed out.