Jeffery Berg
@jdbrecords.bsky.social
Poetry, Film, Books, Tunes.
First book of poems, RE-ANIMATOR, coming in 2026 from Indolent Books.
First book of poems, RE-ANIMATOR, coming in 2026 from Indolent Books.
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Jeffery Berg
@jdbrecords.bsky.social
· Dec 9
Debut Poetry Collection by Jeffery Berg
Jeffery Berg's debut poetry collection RE-ANIMATOR is now available for pre-order directly from Indolent Books. Order yours now!
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From David Groff (@davidgroff.bsky.social): "... Berg inspirits the relics and ghosts of an American childhood and youth that is at once arrestingly familiar, fantastical, and fraught." Preorder my poetry collection RE-ANIMATOR here at Indolent Books! ❤️
SEEDS is a lyrical, immersive documentary of Black farmers in rural Georgia. My Film-Forward review here. film-forward.com/star-reviews... 🖤
Seeds
Willie Head Jr. in Seeds (Film Forum)
Lyrical and immersive, Brittany Shyne’s documentary is a stirring portrait of the ordinary, day-to-day working lives and experiences of Black farmers in rural ...
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January 17, 2026 at 5:15 PM
SEEDS is a lyrical, immersive documentary of Black farmers in rural Georgia. My Film-Forward review here. film-forward.com/star-reviews... 🖤
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Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic.
The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.
The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.
Breaking news: The Justice Department has issued subpoenas for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey as part of an investigation alleging that they are impeding federal law enforcement officers’ abilities to do their jobs in the state.
Justice Dept. launches criminal investigation of Minnesota governor
The Justice Department has issued subpoenas for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey as part of an investigation into impeding law enforcement.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic.
The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.
The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.
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“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
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A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Here are my Top 10 Albums of 2025! 💙
jeffery berg's top 10 albums of 2025!
2025 brought forth a slew of tense, fraught records across all genres. 10. NO VALIDATION / Che Noir & The Other Guys Mesmerizing flows, jazz...
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January 5, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Here are my Top 10 Albums of 2025! 💙
An amazing poetry collection & a discovery for me. So glad I found & rescued it from the withdrawn shelf at the library. 💜
January 5, 2026 at 1:34 AM
An amazing poetry collection & a discovery for me. So glad I found & rescued it from the withdrawn shelf at the library. 💜
Here goes my Top 10 Singles / Tracks of 2025! 🎵💙
jeffery berg's top 10 singles of 2025!
Here goes my Top 10 singles of 2025! 10. Voodoo / Micah Dailey-White A grand, mischievous neo-soul doozy. 9. Night to Night / ...
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January 2, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Here goes my Top 10 Singles / Tracks of 2025! 🎵💙
Two poems, “Ponderosa” & “Afterlife,” from the Southern Gothic Issue of Front Porch Magazine. 🩶 shorturl.at/hZBBG
January 2, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Two poems, “Ponderosa” & “Afterlife,” from the Southern Gothic Issue of Front Porch Magazine. 🩶 shorturl.at/hZBBG
My poem, "Handy Man," inspired by the film SMOOTH TALK, here in the Southern Gothic issue of Front Porch Magazine. 🖤
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December 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
My poem, "Handy Man," inspired by the film SMOOTH TALK, here in the Southern Gothic issue of Front Porch Magazine. 🖤
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Three of my poems, "Handy Man," "Ponderosa," & "Afterlife," are included here in the Southern Gothic issue of Front Porch Magazine. 🖤
FALL 2025 ISSUE
PDF of Fall 2025: Southern GothicDownload
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December 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Three of my poems, "Handy Man," "Ponderosa," & "Afterlife," are included here in the Southern Gothic issue of Front Porch Magazine. 🖤
I wrote about SENTIMENTAL VALUE & ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER for Film-Forward's Top 10 Films of 2025. 💜
The Best Films of 2025
Andrés Roca Rey in Afternoons of Solitude (Film at Lincoln Center)
I recently participated in an awards ballot, along with roughly 30 other critics, to select the best in film in 16 categories: bes...
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December 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I wrote about SENTIMENTAL VALUE & ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER for Film-Forward's Top 10 Films of 2025. 💜
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All in the Family - Sock and a Sock, Shoe and a Shoe
YouTube video by Scarlett OHara
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December 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Oh yes! Have a read, y’all!
Two poems of mine, "Yearbook, 1986" & "Somewhere in Time," here at The Crawfish. 💚
Two Poems//Jeffery Berg — THE CRAWFISH
Yearbook, 1986 It was a great year, cries the cartoon bald eagle, bouquet of balloons in its talons’ grip. “Man in Motion” boosts gray, misty mornings with brassy synths, as a man breaks free to ris...
www.the-crawfish.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Oh yes! Have a read, y’all!
Two poems of mine, "Yearbook, 1986" & "Somewhere in Time," here at The Crawfish. 💚
Two Poems//Jeffery Berg — THE CRAWFISH
Yearbook, 1986 It was a great year, cries the cartoon bald eagle, bouquet of balloons in its talons’ grip. “Man in Motion” boosts gray, misty mornings with brassy synths, as a man breaks free to ris...
www.the-crawfish.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Two poems of mine, "Yearbook, 1986" & "Somewhere in Time," here at The Crawfish. 💚
Review of Gus Van Sant's DEAD MAN'S WIRE. "This story could be akin to a modern Western—the story of a little guy against the system, which remains pertinent, especially as America’s economic gap deepens." film-forward.com/crime/dead-m...
Dead Man's Wire
Dacre Montgomery, left, and Bill Skarsgård in Dead Man's Wire (TIFF)
Gus Van Sant is no stranger to the antihero, whether it’s the drug addict pharmacist thieves of Drugstore Cowboy or the hustlers...
film-forward.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Review of Gus Van Sant's DEAD MAN'S WIRE. "This story could be akin to a modern Western—the story of a little guy against the system, which remains pertinent, especially as America’s economic gap deepens." film-forward.com/crime/dead-m...
From David Groff (@davidgroff.bsky.social): "... Berg inspirits the relics and ghosts of an American childhood and youth that is at once arrestingly familiar, fantastical, and fraught." Preorder my poetry collection RE-ANIMATOR here at Indolent Books! ❤️
Debut Poetry Collection by Jeffery Berg
Jeffery Berg's debut poetry collection RE-ANIMATOR is now available for pre-order directly from Indolent Books. Order yours now!
michaelbroder.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
From David Groff (@davidgroff.bsky.social): "... Berg inspirits the relics and ghosts of an American childhood and youth that is at once arrestingly familiar, fantastical, and fraught." Preorder my poetry collection RE-ANIMATOR here at Indolent Books! ❤️
I am now a newly minted member of the New Jersey Film Critics Circle. 💙 www.njfilmcriticscircle.com/jefferyberg
Jeffery Berg | Discover, Review, Connect Today — New Jersey Film Critics Circle
Explore Jeffery Berg's film reviews, poetry, and contributions to Film-Forward, highlighting his career in media and arts from Jersey City.
www.njfilmcriticscircle.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I am now a newly minted member of the New Jersey Film Critics Circle. 💙 www.njfilmcriticscircle.com/jefferyberg
The depth and nuance of loss are well-rendered in Tom Nesher’s COME CLOSER. My Film-Forward @film4ward.bsky.social) review here.
Come Closer
Lia Elalouf in Come Closer (Shai Peleg/Greenwich Entertainment)
The depth and nuance of loss are well-rendered in Israeli filmmaker Tom Nesher’s directorial debut, rooted in her own personal grief....
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December 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The depth and nuance of loss are well-rendered in Tom Nesher’s COME CLOSER. My Film-Forward @film4ward.bsky.social) review here.
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World AIDS Day. We remember.
December 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
World AIDS Day. We remember.
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I was thrilled to be invited onto the SUPPORTING CHARACTERS podcast to talk about numerous topics including Trans film images, Corpses, Fools and Monsters and our appearance on TCM. Tune in tonight for @cadenmgardner.bsky.social 's program!
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Episode 70: Willow Catelyn Maclay
Bill talks to author and podcaster Erica Shultz about her endeavors in film culture, from creating shows like Unsung Horrors to writing and publishing her book THE SWEETEST TABOO and contributing spec...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I was thrilled to be invited onto the SUPPORTING CHARACTERS podcast to talk about numerous topics including Trans film images, Corpses, Fools and Monsters and our appearance on TCM. Tune in tonight for @cadenmgardner.bsky.social 's program!
www.nowplayingnetwork.net/supportingch...
www.nowplayingnetwork.net/supportingch...
People are helpful to one another in REBUILDING, which feels novel these days, perhaps even groundbreaking.
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Rebuilding
Josh O'Connor in Rebuilding (Bleecker Street)
Delicate and tender, Max Walker-Silverman's rural Colorado-set drama follows a divorced cowboy, Dusty (Josh O’Connor), in the wake of losing his family...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
People are helpful to one another in REBUILDING, which feels novel these days, perhaps even groundbreaking.
film-forward.com/american/ind... 🩵
@bleeckerstfilms.bsky.social @film4ward.bsky.social
film-forward.com/american/ind... 🩵
@bleeckerstfilms.bsky.social @film4ward.bsky.social
Nicholas Britell's ravishing score & Linus Sandgren's exquisite cinematography smooth out purposeful, referential tonal shifts in the wistful, corny, occasionally elegant JAY KELLY. 💙 www.jdbrecords.com/2025/11/jay-...
jay kelly
There's an appropriately wistful atmosphere to Noah Baumbach's rambling, occasionally grand Jay Kelly . To care about an uber-rich movie st...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Nicholas Britell's ravishing score & Linus Sandgren's exquisite cinematography smooth out purposeful, referential tonal shifts in the wistful, corny, occasionally elegant JAY KELLY. 💙 www.jdbrecords.com/2025/11/jay-...
Getting into CHINA BEACH, which is finally available to stream on @therokuchannel.bsky.social. Amazing, ahead-of-its-time show so far, with an outstanding ensemble. Dana Delany is remarkable in it. 💙
November 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Getting into CHINA BEACH, which is finally available to stream on @therokuchannel.bsky.social. Amazing, ahead-of-its-time show so far, with an outstanding ensemble. Dana Delany is remarkable in it. 💙
DIE MY LOVE often feels corrosive, spinning out of control with no end in sight. Highlights: Lawrence & Spacek's wily and effective turns, the quirky music cues, and unexpected allusions (BAMBI, among them). film-forward.com/book-adaptat... @film4ward.bsky.social 🔥
Die My Love
Jennifer Lawrence in Die My Love (Kimberley French/Mubi)
Corrosive and freewheeling, Lynne Ramsay’s latest film often feels as if it’s spinning out of control, with no end in sight. Jennifer Lawren...
film-forward.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
DIE MY LOVE often feels corrosive, spinning out of control with no end in sight. Highlights: Lawrence & Spacek's wily and effective turns, the quirky music cues, and unexpected allusions (BAMBI, among them). film-forward.com/book-adaptat... @film4ward.bsky.social 🔥
I was genuinely surprised by how much I liked CHRISTY. Though the film follows a well-worn story type, its cast infuses it with scrappy energy. film-forward.com/biopic/christy @film4ward.bsky.social 🥊
Christy
Sydney Sweeney in Christy (TIFF)
Contact sport movies are a dime a dozen, but Christy Martin’s remarkable true story helps make David Michôd’s biopic a compelling watch. Short and unassuming in sta...
film-forward.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I was genuinely surprised by how much I liked CHRISTY. Though the film follows a well-worn story type, its cast infuses it with scrappy energy. film-forward.com/biopic/christy @film4ward.bsky.social 🥊
NUREMBERG feels overwrought at times, but it’s most compelling when it zeroes in on the psychological interplay between Crowe and Malek. film-forward.com/book-adaptat... @film4ward.bsky.social
Nuremberg
Rami Malek and Russell Crowe in Nuremberg (Scott Garfield/Sony Pictures Classics)
Often told with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg is uncomplicated yet occasionally effe...
film-forward.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NUREMBERG feels overwrought at times, but it’s most compelling when it zeroes in on the psychological interplay between Crowe and Malek. film-forward.com/book-adaptat... @film4ward.bsky.social