John McAteer

I think of the Google A.I. Overview as Vizzini from The Princess Bride

Sometimes I want to know the generic bullshit take that aggressively normie dudes claim “everyone knows”. In that case I ask an A.I. chatbot

House cleaning is much more fun if you think of it as a full-body VR game where you’re trying to seek and destroy all the dirt in your house

Cleaning my kitchen and I realized that some specific person in history or prehistory must have been thinking of ways to reduce damage to workers’ backs, so they INVENTED the technology of the Broom and the Mop by attaching a brush or a rag to the end of a stick.

How do movies function as political rhetoric and shape the way we think, feel, and behave? Would this make them "propaganda" and can propaganda ever be good?

Join us to screen an all-time great Hollywood classic and discuss its ongoing relevance for today's political context.

Can a Hollywood movie help us think through ethical issues such as, "How much of my own comfortable life should I sacrifice to stand up to creeping authoritarianism? Are personal romantic relationships possible in such a time as this?"

This Friday August 8 at 7pm in #SanDiego, the Ocean Beach Cinema Circle presents a free #film screening of an iconic Hollywood romance about an isolationist American during WW2 followed by discussion about the political power of storytelling with our panel of experts. #sdevents #filmsky #resistance

Speed Racer Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Rollerball Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans The Last Dragon Natural Born KillersYou watched this film Death Race 2000 The Matrix Love Actually Moulin Rouge! Bram Stoker's Dracula Challengers

This Letterboxd list is a cry for help. I think I have acute cinephilia. What are the DSM crieria for diagnosing an obsession with Speed Racer? #filmsky #letterboxd #speedracer
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TONIGHT: What do criminals deserve? What do their victims deserve? When should we punish and when should we forgive? Join us at 7pm in #sandiego, for a free #film screening about the death penalty followed by discussion of Restorative Justice with our panel of experts. #sdevents #filmsky #resistance

Ocean Beach Cinema Circle The OB Cinema Circle is a group of neighbors from the Ocean Beach area of San Diego who gather biweekly on Sunday afternoons to watch a movie together and share our love of cinema. If you're an Obecea...

Cinema of Resistance is a public offering from the OB Cinema Circle, a group of neighbors from the Ocean Beach area of San Diego who gather to watch movies together and share our love of cinema. If you're an Obecean cinephile and want to join the private group, let me know!

Our public screening license prevents us from publicizing the film titles, but we can tell you that this month we will screen an Oscar-winning drama about the death penalty and discuss issues of Restorative Justice with our panel of experts. See more info and sign up at the Eventbrite link above.

The Cinema of Resistance: free, public film series A series of films that bear witness to the dignity of every human being, protest injustice, and imagine new ways of being in the world. Join us at 7pm on the second Friday of each month for a movie, f...

Starting this Friday July 11 at 7pm in #sandiego, the Ocean Beach Cinema Circle presents THE CINEMA OF RESISTANCE: a free, public #film series to bear witness to the dignity of every human being, protest injustice, and imagine new ways of being in the world. #sdevents #filmsky #resistance

Thanks! I have enjoyed everything I've read from Critchley, but I don't have this one. I'll check it out. 👍

This is my new favorite #Wikipedia page. Thanks to @existentialcomics.com for sharing it in this week's comic! #philosophy #history #philsky

Five Great Films About the Myth of America - Screenopolis These epics of religion, money, politics, and masculinity examine how the promise of America goes unfulfilled.

#filmsky Looking for something to watch this July 4th? Check out my essay on the myth of America on film

Ep. 825 - Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Podcast Episode · The Filmcast · 05/27/2025 · 2h 6m

LOLed when Jeff said “Tom Cruise does his own stunts, even when he’s jumping the shark”. Well done, gents. The Filmcast pod with @davechen.bsky.social @devindra.bsky.social @jeffcannata.bsky.social reviews #MissionImpossibleFinalREckoning

I’m talking more Stewart’s soy boy screen persona vs Wayne’s rugged masculinity. Off camera i know they had similar politics

The musician Prince, dressed in a very puffy blouse, performs cruel ventriloquism with a weird little puppet toy in his movie "Purple Rain".

4/4 Even if gangster horror musicals like #Sinners are not to your personal taste, you have to admit it’s an interesting time to live in where #film is seriously addressing the issue of race on this level — and audiences are buying it!

3/4 this #film is about the “sinners” who reject both forms of Christianity in favor of true Black liberation which #RyanCoogler suggests can only be achieved by financial independence from White cultural power structures.

2/4 a Christianity that either teaches Black people to silently endure the KKK while singing songs about going to Heaven someday — or else calls Black people to assimilate to liberal monoculture and lose their unique racial identity.

How Sinners Uses the Blues to Fight the Devil - Screenopolis The genre mashup of Sinners builds a potent look at Black history, culture, and the perils of assimilation.

I’m fascinated with #Sinners as a sociological phenomenon — it’s a movie made by Black American millennials who are #deconstructing the White religion of their parents’ generation 1/4

I never stopped calling it HBO Max. I feel vindicated

I feel you, but I'm not so sure the next guy in line wouldn't be worse

The way we remember the Nazis means if someone is not actively targeting Jews for genocide, then they can't really be Nazis. We need to start teaching that the root evil of the Nazis was ethno-nationalism or thinking national identity should be based ethnicity, whether German, White, or even Jewish

As a gentile, I humbly submit that all we remember is that the Nazis murdered six million Jews in extermination camps. Apparently "Never Again" only means "never let Jews be targeted for genocide again" rather than "never let ANYONE be targeted for genocide again"

My back garden #francis #buddha

A Philip Glass Film Festival Many of the film scores by composer Philip Glass could be whole separate musical suites to be performed in a concert hall. Here are seven of the best, which turn out to be all written for good movies ...

A Philip Glass film score could be performed in a concert hall. Here are seven of his best scores, all written for good movies in a variety of genres by directors with different styles. Watching them all together foregrounds Glass’s music and gives a better appreciation of his unique artistic genius

Schrader shows us how the ideological and ascetic rigor required to attain Mishima’s morally beautiful level of self-perfection is often fed by a stream of self-hatred that can boil over into fascism.