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
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.
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
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...
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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
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
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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 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
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.
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May 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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
April 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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
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 ...
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April 26, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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
For me, Mishima's sense of the unity of aesthetics/ethics was the missing link between Schrader’s films about the war between body/spirit like The Last Temptation and First Reformed on the one hand — and the violent right-wing loners like Taxi Driver and Raging Bull on the other hand.
A ★★★★½ review of Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
This was my first time catching up with this one… Presently still processing. Wow Formally, this is totally my kind of shit: self-conscious employment of Japanese aesthetics, with nonlinear editing ...
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April 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
For me, Mishima's sense of the unity of aesthetics/ethics was the missing link between Schrader’s films about the war between body/spirit like The Last Temptation and First Reformed on the one hand — and the violent right-wing loners like Taxi Driver and Raging Bull on the other hand.
This comprehensive analysis perfectly explains why #SpeedRacer is unironically one of my favorite movies. Watching it literally brought tears to my eyes. Well done, @patrickhwillems.bsky.social #filmsky
The Most Important Movie Of The 21st Century
YouTube video by Patrick (H) Willems
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April 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This comprehensive analysis perfectly explains why #SpeedRacer is unironically one of my favorite movies. Watching it literally brought tears to my eyes. Well done, @patrickhwillems.bsky.social #filmsky
Ever notice that whenever a smaller group dominates a larger one, people tend to assume that the smaller group must be smarter than everyone else or otherwise how can we explain it? I like how #StarWars is clear that the little guys can win through luck and hokey religions
April 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Ever notice that whenever a smaller group dominates a larger one, people tend to assume that the smaller group must be smarter than everyone else or otherwise how can we explain it? I like how #StarWars is clear that the little guys can win through luck and hokey religions
April 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Why Is Dad So Mad?
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April 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I would never have read THIS movie THAT way until seeing the deplorable way the Star Wars fandom has treated so-called “woke” representation — and then seeing that same fascist mob storm the U.S. Capitol and then come back to seize the entire Executive Branch.
My #letterboxd review of #starwars.
My #letterboxd review of #starwars.
A ★★★★★ review of Star Wars (1977)
This might be the best comic book adaptation of all time, despite being based on an unpublished graphic novel that only existed in young George Lucas’s mind. Lucas gets the tone so perfectly here tha...
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April 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I would never have read THIS movie THAT way until seeing the deplorable way the Star Wars fandom has treated so-called “woke” representation — and then seeing that same fascist mob storm the U.S. Capitol and then come back to seize the entire Executive Branch.
My #letterboxd review of #starwars.
My #letterboxd review of #starwars.
The #letterboxd autocorrect is weird. It intentionally doesn’t help you when you try to spell certain words. It didn’t like me trying to type the words “White supremacy” and “sexist”. #autocorrect #censorship ?!
April 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The #letterboxd autocorrect is weird. It intentionally doesn’t help you when you try to spell certain words. It didn’t like me trying to type the words “White supremacy” and “sexist”. #autocorrect #censorship ?!
How better to celebrate Easter when it falls on 4/20? I unironically think The Book of Clarence is a masterpiece. It even holds up when sober
A ★★★★ review of The Book of Clarence (2023)
From the filmmaker Jeymes Samuel whose first film The Harder They Fall was a modern update of the blaxploitation western, comes The Book of Clarence, the first blaxploitation biblical epic. It’s Ben H...
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April 21, 2025 at 4:36 AM
How better to celebrate Easter when it falls on 4/20? I unironically think The Book of Clarence is a masterpiece. It even holds up when sober
Just learned about Steven Soderbergh’s (illegal) alternate cut of 2001: A Space Odyssey. His more elliptical and expressive version felt to me like an almost wordless documentary from the POV of the aliens. The much faster pace also seemed to clarify some of Arthur C Clarke’s original themes.
A ★★★★★ review of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Within minutes of hearing that Steven Soderbergh made his own (illegal) cut of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey I had tracked it down for myself from the hidden depths of the internet. The orig...
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April 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Just learned about Steven Soderbergh’s (illegal) alternate cut of 2001: A Space Odyssey. His more elliptical and expressive version felt to me like an almost wordless documentary from the POV of the aliens. The much faster pace also seemed to clarify some of Arthur C Clarke’s original themes.