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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Really glad I took @whittlz.bsky.social ‘s advice and saw Herb Alpert last night. Still blowing the doors off the place at 91!

Seven men standing on stage before an audience

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: The Carrie Nations will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Such a thrill to see @chuckwendig.bsky.social and @inkwellmonster.bsky.social talk apples, bootleg root beer and generational trauma in Madison! And what a treat to meet my longtime BlueSky buddy @ninjitsuprincss.bsky.social IRL!

A woman and a man speaking in a bookstore

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry seemed as bewildered as anybody that he was hired to voice a hot Cajun detective in the GABRIEL KNIGHT point-and-click games in the '90s. But he sounded like he was having a ball, as always. RIP.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Me thinking of going to a 9 p.m. show with two openers.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

RIP Glen Hansard. Few performers are as present and alive on stage when they're making music as he was. This is a horrible loss.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

What movie did you see in 2017-2018 purely because you had a MoviePass at the time? I’ll start: THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Name a film with a title that is a full sentence.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Went to a showing of handpainted movie posters from Ghana and it was incredible. This should have been the official poster for CATS.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Rod Torfulson's Armada Featuring Herman Menderchuk has dropped out of the White House concert

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Just rolled credits on JEDI: SURVIVOR and, ANDOR notwithstanding, I think those games are the best STAR WARS storytelling of the past decade. So fun.

A Jedi holding a blue lightsaber with a cute robot on his shoulder.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

If you would like to be absolutely wrecked, have I got a movie for you!

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

RIP to film critic Rex Reed, who convincingly played himself being kind of a dick to Clark Kent in SUPERMAN.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Last night’s Marcus Mystery Movie was a sneak preview of TUNER, Daniel Roher’s thriller about a piano tuner-turned-safecracker. Really liked it — it’s a character-based caper movie with strong performances and clever sound design. And I’m starting to understand what everybody sees in Leo Woodall.

An old man (Dustin Hoffman) and a young man wearing headphones (Leo Woodall) stand outside someone's front door.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

So much fun to see @jjdotbiz.bsky.social talking about BABE: PIG IN THE CiTY with three very regular and normal Madisonians at the Wisconsin Film Festival.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Was already enjoying @scalzi.com ‘s When the Moon Hits Your Eye and then I got to the part about two estranged brothers running rival cheese shops on the Capitol Square.

A page out of a book with Chapter Eleven at the top.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

This guy should have gotten his own show on NBC.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Sundance 2026: We're so inundated by AI slop that it was a breath of fresh air to watch @valerieveatch.bsky.social show the emperor has no clothes in GHOST IN THE MACHINE. notthatrobthomas.substack.com/p/sundance-2...

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

One of the all-time great line readings.

Rachel McAdams standing next to a plane reacts to something she sees.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Makes the office in THE APARTMENT seem inviting.

A man walks through an empty office with dozens of identical desks.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Beginning Friday, some AMC theaters are showing ANNIE HALL and SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE in honor of Diane Keaton.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I guessed tonight's AMC Screen Unseen would be Richard Linklater's BLUE MOON, but it was the new movie from another filmmaker I really like, Kelly Reichardt's THE MASTERMIND. Part heist thriller, part dry comedy, part immersive portrait of 1970s America. I was really into it.

A bearded man in an ill-fitting suit in the poster for the movie THE MASTERMIND.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

All you need is 10 seconds of insane courage that kills you.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Finally finished DISCO ELYSIUM last night. Incredible game.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Remembering the most chilling fortune I’ve ever received.

A slip of paper that reads “Your problem just got bigger. Think, what have you done.”

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I mean who doesn’t love a wind-up diorama of a dying man being besieged by his demons?

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Stop scrolling, & post two characters who bring you joy & happiness.

The two members of the band They Might Be Giants holding guitars.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I was so jealous of my friend who had one of these.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

The faces of the Starbucks baristas LIT UP when I ordered a Fireworks Frappuccino.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Was deeply worried that tonight's AMC Screen Unseen mystery movie was going to be BRIDE HARD. Thankfully, it was R.T. Thorne's intense post-apocalyptic action thriller 40 ACRES, with a ferocious lead performance by Danielle Deadwyler.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

And they always look at you like “What’s your problem?”

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

It’s officially big bouncy hail season in Madison

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

The AMC Screen Unseen movie tonight was FIGHT OR FLIGHT. Basically BULLET PLANE, it's dumb ultraviolent fun that gets by thanks to some creative fight staging and Josh Hartnett's charm. Also I want that strawberry milk T-shirt.

A man in front of a green and yellow taxi wearing an incredible pink T-shirt with a carton of strawberry milk on it.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I went to a shadow puppet play last night and an Iron & Wine concert broke out.

A band plays in front of an orange screen with shadow puppets on it.

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Speaking of HUMP, here is the greatest correction ever written, from Isthmus.

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