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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 15h

Door III (1996, d. K. Kurosawa) An insurance saleswoman, stressed about her dip in sales, finds herself involved, not sexually, with a big time businessman. It's a sales attempt but he gets obsessed, she sees people in the shadows, and it’s a gradual hell breaks loose. 1/2

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hideous (2022, d. Gonzalez) 22 minutes of glorious filmmaking, as star Oliver Sim of the xx promotes his solo debut to some of the best visuals I’ve seen. It’s pop synth music, not a style I generally like, although there’s at least one great song here, 1/2

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Jennifer’s Body (2009, d. Kusama) Pretty good horror flick with a fantastic finish and the world’s worst soundtrack. Stars Megan Fox as the hot chick who becomes a demon, and Amanda Seyfried as her nerdy (? That was a helluva makeup job) best friend.

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The announcer said it took guts to name Deshaun Watson the Cleveland starter. Guts? To name a man who settled out of court on millions of dollars of rape accusations? I think the word you're looking for is culpability.

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Body Snatchers (1993, d. Ferrara) Meg Tilly stars in this adaptation of the Jack Finney novel, with Billy Wirth, bland as hell but very pretty as her hero boyfriend. Standouts were the often gruesome (think Cronenberg lite) special effects, Gabrielle Anwar as the stepmom, and Forest Whitaker. 1/2

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

At 4:30 this morning I decided to read David Goodis in an attempt to go back to sleep. Turns out, David Goodis is not a cure for insomnia - David Goodis is a cause of insomnia.

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"I'm God's instrument," Reverend Short said. "I don't doubt that," Grave Digger said, trying to hold his attention until Coffin Ed had time to approach the rear windows. "All we want to do is see that you get safe and sound back into God's instrument case." - Chester Himes, The Crazy Kill

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Misha and I are the only customers at The Crepe Place. We walk into the back and Syd Barrett is playing, followed by Stevie Wonder. So, I’m dead and in heaven, right? Great dog, great music, and access to a full bar.

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Edited the last chapter of my WIP this morning, and the first chapter tonight. Also printed my pages of notes on newly acquired corkboard. For those who think I watch movies for a living. What I do for a living remains the question; I'm a novelist.

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Straight Time (1978, d. Grosbard) Great flick about a man released from prison (Dustin Hoffman) who hits it off far more with unemployment employee Theresa Russell than with his parole officer, M. Emmet Walsh, who essentially drives Hoffman back to crime. 1/2

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Four Murders Are Enough, Darling (1971, d. Lipsky) Delightfully charming Czech comedy about a man who keeps opening his door and having a corpse fall in. This is due to a million dollar check someone has slipped him but he has no idea, 1/2

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The rest of y'all may be wasting time, but I'm listening to John Lee Hooker and drinking bourbon.

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fear City (1984, d. Ferrara) A psycho attacks dancers, some managed by Matt (Tom Berenger) and Nicky (Jack Scalia). Matt is an ex-boxer who quit after killing a man in the ring, and he’s trying to get back with Loretta (Melanie Griffith), a stripper trying to stay off drugs. 1/2

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unnerving @washingtonpost.com exclusive: US and Russia worked in secret to remove "a range of provisions designed to safeguard the use of artificial intelligence in weapons." For instance, leave targeting to AI, no human review required. Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/4yWadkR

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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact

The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The last drink of the night is almost always a bad idea. So I always have one more.

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

La Llorona (2019, d. Bustamente) Terrifically creepy film about a Guatemalan military leader accused of the genocide of Mayans. He is convicted but the trial results are annulled and all but one of his staff leave him to a large house with family. 1/2

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'd forgotten how dark Don Siegel's film The Beguiled was. Great. Next up, probably the remake.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

2026 was the hottest summer on record since records began in 1895. Shockingly, Republicans are trying to stop ALL federal heat safety protection regs-NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. HR6213 prohibits OSHA from creating or enforcing ANY national heat safety standard. Let's stop this! 1/

Graphic reading “Not having shade, water, breaks is not just dangerous it is inhumane,” with a hand holding strawberries chained to gray links with the link breaking up top; the stark design conveys urgency

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

King of New York (1990, d. Ferrara) Christopher Walken gets to get in some of his dance moves in this excellent, violent flick about a gangster who comes out of prison with a bang. Walken plays with a nearly continual smirk, and the cast is excellent: 1/2

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Who are you talking to?” I started. She had been asleep. “Myself. Sometimes I talk to myself.” “Sounded like an argument.” “Yeah, well, I don’t always agree.” - the WIP

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

/I saw Johnny Thunders play some little bar. There was a break between sets, and Johnny walked through the "crowd." He may have been a little fucked up. He was one of my heroes, so I said, "Hey Johnny! Buy me a drink!" And he looked at me and sneered, "Fuck you four eyes." I love that man.

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Chinese Odyssey 2002 (2002, d. Lau) Sweet, delightful, funny as hell twin love stories and great love stories. I loved this and won’t try to encapsulate the stories; oh, there’s magic and mistaken identity too. Great fun.

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Streets of Fire (1984, d. Hill) Great action scenes and some awful dialogue are sandwiched between truly terrible “rock n roll” in this semi-winner from Walter Hill. Singer Ellen Aim (Diane Lane) is kidnapped by Willem Dafoe, and must be saved by Michael Paré.

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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For PEOPLE, I wrote about haunted houses written by Latine authors. Includes novels by Leopoldo Goût, Isabela Livino, Juan Martinez, Vincent Tirado, Samanta Schweblin and more! 🖤 10 Haunted House Books by Latine Authors, Just in Time for Spooky Season (Exclusive) people.com/10-haunted-h...

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10 Haunted House Books by Latine Authors, Just in Time for Spooky Season (Exclusive)

‘Something Followed Us Home’ editor and author Cynthia Pelayo recommends 10 books by Latine authors that explore homes and other places where we may sleep as places of fear and dread

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fiend Without A Face (1958, d. Crabtree) Stupid but entertaining story about a scientist whose experiments in mental control over objects finds a source for power when the U.S. Army sets up a base in town. 1/2

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Addiction (1995, d. Ferrara) Lily Taylor is victimized by a vampire (Annabella Sciorra) and runs amok. Excellent film about vampirism as addiction. Terrific cast includes Edie Falco and Christopher Walken. Huge scene toward the end, great directing job by Ferrara and Lily Taylor is fantastic.

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Woman in the Dunes (1964, d. Teshigahara) A bug collector misses the last bus into town, is offered a spot to sleep at the home of a young widow. Her house is down a long climb on a rope ladder. Little does the man know when he goes down how long he will have to stay. 1/2

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DougBlueWahoo 🦋💙✌️🌈🌊 @dougbluewahoo2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trump is a vile, vengeful, sadist, working against the American people. Note what he wishes to destroy:

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David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 19/09/2026

Anyone who participates in any demolition of the Kennedy Center, particularly before Midterms, should never work again. The funny thing about the country we are supposed to be is you don't have to do that work. He can't make you. He won't pay you anyway.

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 18/09/2026

There is no question in my mind that when AI kills us all, it will be by being too stupid, NOT being too smart

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Satan’s Brew (1976, d. Fassbender) Brilliantly funny through the first half of this story about a poet in need of money, it unfortunately doesn’t hold up. Still, well worth it for the early laughs.

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Nomad (1982, d. Tam) A wild little sex comedy, brilliant on its own, becomes political when it turns out one of the quartet of lovers is a target. I didn’t think the political angle enhanced the film, and up until then it had been enjoyable.

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Idiocracy (2006, d. Judge) Oddly sweet, if not all that funny, comedy about the devolution of the world as smart people breed less and stupid people breed more until, in the 2500’s, idiots rule the world.

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

People’s Hero (1987, d. Tung-Sing) It’s a drama about a bank robbery gone wrong but with a lot of comic bits. Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Ronald Wong are on the verge of abandoning their plan to rob a bank when the soda soaks through their burger joint bag and a pistol falls to the floor 1/2

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Dracula (1931, d. Browning) Bela Lugosi is fantastic as Dracula, and Dwight Frye is almost as good as Renfield, his bug-eating assistant. The story is familiar by now; the Count comes to England from Transylvania and wreaks havoc. Yay! The ending felt rushed, but it’s pretty good regardless.

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Santa Cruzans - SAVE SEABRIGHT PLAZA! I have friends who work in some of these businesses, and all I've frequented have given good service. The meeting about it is Sept. 29; the email of the City Planner is included in that photo. 1/2

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Misha on a morning walk, oblivious to the leaf on her nose.

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My current read is Ride The Pink Horse by Dorothy B. Hughes. If this doesn't get me back to writing plot, nothing will. Seems to me I read something else by Hughes.

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you're good at paperwork and are given the opportunity to be executor of a Trust - pretend you're no good at paperwork.

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There's a heavy disregard for the second Clash album, Give 'Em Enough Rope, but I love it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9wG...

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The Clash - All the Young Punks (New Boots and Contracts) ( Tribute MV )

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In the interests of health, tonight I will drink less than last night. Easy enough, considering how little is left.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Started/Going, brought to you by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “The pox virus and rabies labs lost about half their prior staff…”

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Nadja (1994, d. Almereyda) Great vampire flick starring Elina Lowensohn and Martin Donovan (cool for Hal Hartley fans) with Lowensohn as a modern vampire working NYC until her dad dies. It’s an amazing film with a lot of great jokes and the cast – David Lynch, Peter Fonda – an all star show for me.

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Little Sister (2025, d. Herzi) A young woman hangs with high school friends until she realizes she is lesbian, which would horrify her family but damn it feels good to her. Great film, beautifully shot.

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Land of my Dreams (2012, d. Gonzalez) Wild trip as a beautiful model in a traveling strip show explores her world. Fun and weird twenty minutes.

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Divorce Italian (1961, d. Germi) Marcello Mastroianni is worshipped by his wife, but he adores his sixteen year old niece, whose bedroom is in view from his bathroom window. 1/2

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Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Driller Killer (1979, d. Ferrara) Just as good now as when I first rented the VHS from Eyeball in the Lower Haight, this gruesome murder story is about an artist barely making rent 1/2

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