John McAteer
@johnmcateer.bsky.social
San Diego Cinephile and amateur liberationist theologian Letterboxd@JohnMcAteer
My Thanksgiving Day reading on the theology of Prince turns out to be a self help book that meditates through Prince’s discography with spiritual practices to accompany each album.
November 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
My Thanksgiving Day reading on the theology of Prince turns out to be a self help book that meditates through Prince’s discography with spiritual practices to accompany each album.
When does radical direct climate action become terrorism? Join us at 7pm THIS FRIDAY Nov 14 in #sandiego, for a free screening of a recent climate heist #film followed by a panel discussion of the ethics and effectiveness of eco-sabotage with @swaziadam.bsky.social. #sdevents #filmsky #resistance
The Cinema of Resistance: Eco-defense or Eco-terrorism?
Part of a series of free, public film screenings to inspire, enlighten, and heal us in such a time as this on the 2nd Friday of each month
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November 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
When does radical direct climate action become terrorism? Join us at 7pm THIS FRIDAY Nov 14 in #sandiego, for a free screening of a recent climate heist #film followed by a panel discussion of the ethics and effectiveness of eco-sabotage with @swaziadam.bsky.social. #sdevents #filmsky #resistance
I think of the Google A.I. Overview as Vizzini from The Princess Bride
August 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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
August 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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
August 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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.
August 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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.
Join us to screen an all-time great Hollywood classic and discuss its ongoing relevance for today's political context.
August 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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.
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?"
August 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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
The Cinema of Resistance: Love in the time of fascism
Part of a series of free, public film screenings to inspire, enlighten, and heal us in such a time as this on the 2nd Friday of each month
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August 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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
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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July 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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
The Cinema of Resistance: Punishment and Forgiveness
Part of a series of free, public film screenings to inspire, enlighten, and heal us in such a time as this on the 2nd Friday of each month
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July 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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
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!
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...
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July 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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.
July 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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.
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
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...
www.eventbrite.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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. 👍
July 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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
Deaths of philosophers - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
July 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This is my new favorite #Wikipedia page. Thanks to @existentialcomics.com for sharing it in this week's comic! #philosophy #history #philsky
#filmsky Looking for something to watch this July 4th? Check out my essay on the myth of America on film
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.
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July 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
#filmsky Looking for something to watch this July 4th? Check out my essay on the myth of America on film
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
Ep. 825 - Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Podcast Episode · The Filmcast · 05/27/2025 · 2h 6m
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May 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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
May 26, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I’m talking more Stewart’s soy boy screen persona vs Wayne’s rugged masculinity. Off camera i know they had similar politics
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.
May 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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.
May 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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.