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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

When the dust settles, it’ll be Dune, with Sinners and Oppenheimer as close seconds. These are the only movies I can mention offhand and see half of my students even register as familiar to them. (Barbie and EEAAO will be remembered more as flashes in the pan).

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Incredibly random thought, but has Terry Crews ever been the leading role of a movie?

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Plese repost & share: "The risks of using generative artificial intelligence to educate children and teens currently overshadow the benefits, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution's Center for Universal Education." www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

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The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says

A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Much has been made of the performances in Marty Supreme, particularly Chalamet (incendiary) and A’zion (starmaking). But goddamn, Abel Ferrara (yes, the director) is astounding in his small role. Terrifying, and yet quite emotional.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

It’s wild to recognize that in her genes resides the greatest synthesis of 20th century artistic genius.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

It’s a great score no doubt, but in a career spanning The Lion King, Gladiator, Interstellar, and Dune (all incredibly diverse, with their major similarity being that they’re *big*), I reject there being any standout best.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Wallach is also the most haunting and memorable part of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, turning in a three minute masterclass at age 94!!

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

We’re gonna calm down on that last sentence (but everything else is spot on).

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Most recently, Sinners blew me away. All-time: Interstellar in IMAX, LOTR as a child, and strangely, the part in Revenge of the Sith where Yoda bodies two praetorian guards with a flick of the wrist. Crowd absolutely lost it.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

On top of the affordability of blu-ray players ($60ish), if you have a PS4 or a PS5 (with a disk drive) congrats, you already have one!

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

It’s remarkably similar to the AA symbol, and Cregger flat out said in an interview that Gladys is a stand-in for the alcoholism he saw as a child (a parasite that changes parent’s behavior and inverts the dynamic of responsibility)

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I think it’s so funny to write, direct, produce, and star in a movie where you just so happen to sleep with both Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Absolutely love Paolini, the way she plays. She pushed Swiatek. My two favorite players right now.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

A great way to understand billionaires is: they’d rather spend much more in donations and kickbacks to an extorting President than they’d ever spend in taxes just to make sure that poor and working class people starve.

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Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sales revenues to the U.S. government, FT reports

The arrangement comes as President Donald Trump's tariffs continue to reverberate through the global economy.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Nolan isn’t a conservative. If you’re talking about the DKR thing, I think time has shown how universal “violent demagogue weaponizes class resentment against the elite” is. I would also just watch Oppenheimer, which is about as left as a blockbuster is allowed to be.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Feel the same about Zero Dark Thirty. The politics are abysmal (torture is good!) but the film itself is astounding.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I also lament the collapse of screenwriter Twitter. But also refuse to contribute to Musk’s fascist project. Hoping you’re good, brother! Got some great talent alongside me here, it seems!

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

In the last few days, we learned that there are minutes erased from Epstein’s prison footage, there’s an unidentified and unaccounted for figure in the footage, the FBI redacted all mention of Trump in the EFs, and Ghislaine is being sent to a low-security prison…DEMOCRATS SHOULD TALK ABOUT THAT

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Audio cutting during the diner scene is heresy.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Gonna go out on a limb and say: if you can’t think of questions to ask someone, you shouldn’t be a reporter.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Saw someone out in the wild at a trendy LA hangout spot and, as I was passing them, accidentally glanced at their laptop. It was open to ChatGPT with the prompt: “what questions should I ask *celebrity name*” and it dawned on me. This is an actual fucking reporter.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

This is great! I also think of westerns when I think of Dad Movies. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, or Tombstone.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I think cheating is bad. I think a society that seeks out retribution and public disgrace of people they don’t know for the sake of clout is worse.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Anisimova played a hell of a tournament to get here, including a win over the #1 in the world, where she looked brilliant. Today wasn’t her day. She’ll be back.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I feel like Javier Bardem just always understands the assignment. Scariest villain of all time? Got it. Comedic friend/acolyte with a shit ton of pathos? Yep. Absolutely broken, confused, depraved entity? Let’s do it.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Watching Casablanca on the 4th of July, 2025 really hits, even more than it already does as simply one of the greatest movies ever made.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

If you’re not rich, Trump and complicit Republicans (almost all of them) just raised your taxes and took away healthcare from people you love so that they could give billionaires tax cuts and ICE more money than the entire Marine Corps to kidnap your and your neighbors without due process.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Social media trivializes even the most heinous political info. The fact that you read “Kilmar Abrego Garcia tortured” and then see a photo of your friend at the beach just dampens any effect the word TORTURE should have. And yet, it’s the only way most people find out anything anymore.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

This is my big “wait, what?” with the MSM. You would think they wanted Trump to win to juice ratings, but they’re not even sensationalizing the things that would actually get them viewers. Doing everything in their power to maintain and codify their own obsolescence.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

28 Years Later really missed the boat by not playing Green Day’s “Saint Jimmy” at cut to black.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Isn’t that a gag in Man of Steel? They’re fighting in the city and Superman throws Zod (or other way around) into a construction site, and the sign gets changed back to 0.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

That’s why I’ve always preferred Last Crusade. Raiders is erroneously fun, with some jaw-dropping visuals, but Crusade just tells a better story.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

That’s two films in as many weeks that lure you in with the promise of a great and very popular actor, only to use them for like five minutes of the movie.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

*taps the sign* “Let Zack Be Zack”

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

For a while, it was a popular belief that decorum masked the insidious acts of evil people, but now that public decorum is gone, it looks like it actually constrained them from doing even greater evil.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

If you watch Collateral (2004) and Miami Vice (2006) back-to-back, you’ve essentially listened to half an Audioslave album (epic!!). I wonder, are there other directors who use the same musical artist in multiple films? (In needle drops, not composers)

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

He wanted to bring the hammer down. I guess they took that literally.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

This. Can’t fight cynicism with cynicism.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Does anyone remember a Medium post that made the rounds a few years ago that connected the dots on the data-driven simplification of NBA shots-taken spots, simplified corporate logos, and modern political unrest?

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The way you all gleefully spoiled not just the *who* of a certain show based on a video game, but the *how.* No respect for other people’s experience either here or with the films/tv shows they watch.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

My favorite De Palma, which is a pretty fucking high bar.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The same people that believe “men should be men” also believe we should send in the marines because of a few thrown bottles.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

If you believe that the Marines should be sent in because somebody threw a few bottles, then there should be Marines at almost every high school football game.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

This is a psychotic escalation to what has amounted to incredibly tame spontaneous protests by any standard. Show me a single act of significant violence done by a protestor.

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