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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 9h

Favorite First Watches of September (I've stopped counting 2026 theatrical releases for the sake of my sanity) Tormento (1950) Killer's Kiss (1955) Violent Saturday (1955) Night & Fog (1956) The Killing (1956) Bigger Than Life (1956) Surface Tension (1968) (cont'd)

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 23h

Starting the “What if House was a lady with memory loss from traumatic brain injury?” show

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s been a real Peter Gabriel couple of days on the ol’ LB

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don’t think this is a perfect film, but there’s something about the imperfections that make it even stronger. A flawed, powerful movie about seeing your father as a flawed, powerful man.

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Didn’t get a Chris Hansen ad before Primetime but it was funny to get a Social Network II trailer before the movie where NBC says “Fuck Studio 60, we’re the Predator network now!”

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was going to say PRIMETIME felt like Todd Haynes making a Michael Mann movie but then remembered DARK WATERS is basically already that.

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In many ways, COREYS is just Conner O’Malley’s BIGGER THAN LIFE

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Six Feet Under rewatch report: “N’arm!” still hits like a freight train

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As someone who runs in both movie and pro wrestling circles, the term “violent poetry” gets thrown around a lot, but there’s only one true Poet Laureate of Violence and that’s John Woo. Happy birthday, you crazy bastard.

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Kubrick rewatch continues - Realizing Spartacus is a Western

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Kinda in an uncanny valley with the 80s Spielberg of it all but just mean enough to have stakes and ends before it has the chance to overstay its welcome.

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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@RossWBermanIV

I’m a REAL MAN:

I’m SCARED OF CITIES

I’m MAD at the LITTLE MERMAID

My truck is TALL and I have to crawl into it like a BABY

Do not get me STARTED on women’s sports

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Gonna finally find out what’s at the end of oak street (I hope it’s a bouncy castle)

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

*Ken Burns Jazz voice* “Freddie Keppard was so afraid of other musicians copying him, that he’d often tell the crowd to turn around and not look at him. One brave soul turned to watch Freddie blow, and Keppard beat him about the head and shoulders with his coronet.”

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The thing about Stanley Kubrick is his movies asked a very important question, “What if there was a guy who sucked? Possibly many?”

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Early seasons of Breaking Bad are so funny because people will be like “Walter White, I remember you! A wizard of crystallography! This guy knows his crystals!!!”

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The term "Lynchian" is overused in horror and film discussions in general, so I'll just say that you can *really tell* Jason Goes To Hell is the only Friday The 13th movie to be made after Twin Peaks and FWWM.

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Back in Chicago (ah fuck I gotta go to work tomorrow)

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Me, after an hour in the Red’s Lobster Rolls line: “Phil Rosenthal, Andrew Zimmern, I know these faces better than I know my own family’s.”

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It is crazy/perfect that the mezzanine of Rocky Horror is casually in one of the most depraved spots in Manhattan history. Any tourist like me can comfortably sit where coked out VIPs terrorized busboys on speed.

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

God just imagine being wrecked on coke, opium, and bathtub hooch, hearing Smokehouse Blues. I fuckin love jazz

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Shout out to MoMA because I don’t know if this was graffiti or just an installation in the bathroom stall

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The fact that this is a better King of Comedy riff than Joker is killing me

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It’s…perfectly fine. Doesn’t really become more than the sum of its parts but the woman who plays Betsy is insanely talented.

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton was a legend. Not in the pop-cultural sense, but in a deeper, mythological sense. Hank Williams built like a Barbie doll. Country music's living goddess of song and beauty. As important to the idea of American Music as Elvis Presley.

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The opening credits smack you in the face with THIS IS BASED ON A PLAY and I think the framing really helped

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Claire Denis don’t miss! She is incapable of missing!!

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Mother Mary is good but I wanted it to Go There more

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Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) @rosswbermaniv.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Don Draper, finally back in the swing of things at McCann, forgiven for his disappearance in 1970, settling into life, sees Clint Eastwood's BREEZY and begins to get The Urge...

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