@RossWBermanIV

Folk City Hustler. Culture Vulture. Music. Comedy. Film Twitter. Bart Simpson’s last disciple. Bought & paid for by Raytheon. Writer/Editor at @WrestlingInc.

 Chicago, IL
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Joined February 2009
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Gonna watch some movies, even though “2026” still doesn’t sound like a real year yet📽️
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Millennial novelist, writing an epigraph:
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nw Freddy's Dead, where they went from quoting Edgar Allen Poe & Nietzche in the opening credits to this
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Any time Scott Tenorman comes up, I have to ask: does 201 still exist in South Park continuity?
Miyah🚸🏔️@Honaraj_17h
I never gave af that cartman fed scott tenorman his parents he scammed cartman out of $16.12 he had it coming
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Spoilers for an episode wiped from the internet but that $16.12 led to Cartman killing his own father.
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You want to feel old? This is the Eraserhead baby now
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When you’re almost out of sick days
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"Little Death is back..." 🎵Hello, my sweet Orangutan, Doris Day is on TV again🎵
kyle@Caol_MacCormaic12h
Jane Schoenbrun walked with "A Long December" so one day someone will be brave enough to run with "Mr. Jones"
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“Giants struggling against this defense, and just across the river it looks like Dr. Bill Harford is interrogating a flirty hotel desk clerk.”
Doc Sportello@TheDocSportello19h
watching Eyes Wide Shut on the quad box, just as Kubrick intended
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Don’t normally like to engage with movies this way but I watched Son of The Mask and hated it so much that it inspired me to make a Bottom 20.
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"diverse breads" immediately entering the lexicon
Temu Joan Didion 🍉
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She was gagged by eating bread with her hands, calling it “oriental mystery and excitement” Ryan Murphy could never write this
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I don’t know Butchie instead
cinesthetic.
@TheCinestheticOct 25
Besides THE WIRE, THE SOPRANOS and GAME OF THRONES, what’s one HBO series everyone needs to watch at least once? Looking for those underrated gems and all-time greats that deserve to be in the conversation.
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I’m not sure I’ve ever done a 180 on a performance like I did with Rami Malek in THE MAN I LOVE. In the first half, I was certain he was miscast and by the end he completely won me over.
Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate)@RossWBermanIVOct 25
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Ira Sachs eschews the usual clean lines and moralizing of the traditional AIDS/tragic artist story, to leave the viewer with something heartbreaking and uncertain. boxd.it/gXcbvR

Review of ‘The Man I Love’ (2026) ★★★★★

“Well it's the only thing I could do half right And it's turning out all wrong, Ma” -Melanie The AIDS epidemic is often told through the titans we lost. For every Freddie Mercury, there was 1,000…

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The soul of a country being torn away by savage men who hide behind the cross. boxd.it/gWKOMr

Review of ‘Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors’ (2026) ★★★★½

“One day, we'll dance on their graves One day, we'll sing our freedom One day, we'll laugh in our joy And we'll dance” -Sting Lav Diaz’s LET US THROUGH DEAR ANCESTORS doesn’t really reinvent the…

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Ira Sachs eschews the usual clean lines and moralizing of the traditional AIDS/tragic artist story, to leave the viewer with something heartbreaking and uncertain. boxd.it/gXcbvR

Review of ‘The Man I Love’ (2026) ★★★★★

“Well it's the only thing I could do half right And it's turning out all wrong, Ma” -Melanie The AIDS epidemic is often told through the titans we lost. For every Freddie Mercury, there was 1,000…

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It’s been an incredible year for Melanie’s “Look What They’ve Done To My Song, Ma”
Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate)@RossWBermanIVOct 25
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CIFF Round 5
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Digger > The Man I Love BUT The Man I Love’s use of “Look What They’ve Done To My Song, Ma” > Digger’s use of “Look What They’ve Done To My Song, Ma”
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CIFF round 1
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CIFF Round 5
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Lav Diaz’s FEAR & DESIRE
Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate)@RossWBermanIVOct 24
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CIFF round 4
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Really clicked with this one in a way I just *didn’t* with Magellan.
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Yes, even this one
lana schwartz@_lanabelleOct 23
every character on cheers should have gotten a spinoff that ran for 11 seasons
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That Phodega sandwich is no joke
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