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midwestberg.bsky.social
Movie fanatic, sporadic novelist, sneakerhead, NBA lifer, former newspaper journalist in Iowa City and Peoria. Don’t diss Peoria or the Midwest around me.
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Nothing prepared me for how good Working Girl was. God bless @jowrotethis.bsky.social , @billsimmons.bsky.social @theringer.com.web.brid.gy for convincing me to watch. A rom-com made before the genre’s modern cliches were set, 3 incredible performances (Griffith, Ford, Weaver) & horrific hair.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

This is all @blankcheck.bsky.social ‘s fault. And yes, I’m the heathen who thinks ET is just OK.

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

I love the NYTimes. But for the love of god, can these stories about rich couples struggling to find their dream house with almost a million dollars stop being so high on the page? This is massively unrelatable to 95% of the country. Trump is burning the government, but we must care for rich kids?

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

hell yes for my favorite local restaurant (thanked in the acknowledgments of my most recent book) www.desmoinesregister.com/story/entert...

submitted 147 days ago • 1 comment

So who do we have to roast for putting “Twin Peaks: The Return” was disappointing in the Hollywood Reporter’s obit for David Lynch? The Eraserhead Boys will not stand for this!

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

Im 100% safe in this situation.

submitted 164 days ago • 0 comments

Just watched “Local Hero” (1983). I’ve found a new movie to obsess over. One of the most popular Scottish movies ever, it’s about an oilman going to Scotland to buy a town to replace it with a refinery. What happens next is funny, charming, human. Think Twin Peaks without the surreal stuff.

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Watched “Only Yesterday” last night. Blown away. The sequences with older Taeko are elaborately painted like Studio Ghibli’s best. When memories slip back to 5th grade, it takes on a water color-fringe that fades to whiteness on the edges, richly capturing how vivid but limited memories can be.

submitted 188 days ago • 1 comment

For @aftermath.site, here is my ranking of objects to hit fascists with in Indiana Jones: aftermath.site/indiana-jone...

submitted 188 days ago • 39 comments

Cannot overstate how this movie, and this cut, were vital to making me love movies for the rest of my life. No film will give me the grandiose cinematic awe mixed with artistic boldness.

submitted 188 days ago • 2 comments

Would these fast food/chain restaurants narc: McDonald’s: Obviously yes. Taco Bell: Not if Baja Blast is there. Burger King: Yes, but would call wrong number. Steak n’ Shake: No. Waffle House: Never in 100 years. Culver’s: Yes. Pizza Ranch: Would pray to God first, but yes. Wendy’s: No.

submitted 189 days ago • 1 comment

Tale as old as time; song as old as rhyme: video games are why he killed a dude.

submitted 190 days ago • 0 comments

Watched "Meet Me in St. Louis" for the first time last night. I knew the iconic songs, I knew Judy Garland was great. I did not know that children gathered together on Halloween night in 1903 St. Louis and threw furniture in a burning pile of destruction in the middle of the street. Wild.

submitted 194 days ago • 0 comments

I love a restful echo chamber sometimes. I like to lay my head where the Nazis aren’t screaming.

submitted 208 days ago • 15 comments

That feeling when you watch “The Grapes of Wrath” for the first time right after the 2024 election and you just get punched in the gut by it. Never has 85-year-old movie felt so vital.

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