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Paul McGee @paulmcgee.bsky.social · 55m

I'm old enough to remember Granada TV's late 1960s review show Cinema, which was at one point presented by Clive James. That performed much the same function for me, although I only occasionally saw it due to it being on past my bedtime.

Paul McGee @paulmcgee.bsky.social · 13h

They never learn.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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Paul McGee @paulmcgee.bsky.social · 17h

I love his score for Inside Man, and his work on Spike's movies in general. Matter of fact, I thought the absence of a Blanchard score was a major strike against Highest 2 Lowest. Howard Drossin's effort, apart from being way too intrusive, sounded like generic smooth jazz.

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Paul McGee @paulmcgee.bsky.social · 19h

When I used to do the hip-hop reviews column for the late, lamented Q c. 2012-2014, I tried unsuccessfully a couple of times to sell them on the idea of a mixtapes-only column.

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Paul McGee @paulmcgee.bsky.social · 20h

Once a Red... #LFC

Emily ✨🎃 @emilyoram.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning, somehow this has only just come up on my instagram but it’s well worth 30 seconds of your time.

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Paul McGee @paulmcgee.bsky.social · 20h

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”

Food: Marmite

Film: 12 Years A Slave. An extraordinary movie I have no need to see a second time.

Song: Total Eclipse Of The Heart. Bombastic, overwrought horseshit.

Sarah Manvel with a🪝for a 🖐️ @cairdiul.bsky.social · 22h

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”

Food: canned tuna fish

Film: Grease. I was horrified by its sexism from my first viewing at a sleepover and I remain correct

Song: Brown Eyed Girl. The worst

Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 22h

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”

Food: cucumber, however if you pickle it I'll eat em all day

Film: Jacob's Ladder, avoided it for years then was tricked into seeing it

Song: the whole of the fucking moon

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Paul McGee @paulmcgee.bsky.social · 1d

What does it say, I wonder, about using AI to filter applications according to the number of bullshit-bingo keywords, salary expectations, ageism based on work/education history, etc.

work.education

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Paul McGee @paulmcgee.bsky.social · 1d

Well, that person is blocked now, so thank you for that.

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Paul McGee @paulmcgee.bsky.social · 1d

Today in Build A Big Prison On An Island, Put All The Tech Bros In The Prison, Nuke The Island.

Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 1d

Wife did a gravel order from Lowe’s for me to pick up. I drive to the pick up dock. Guy with a radio comes out. I show him the order receipt. He radios inside. They tell him to tell me to tell my wife to download the app so that she can check in on it to let them know I’m here to pick up the order.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 1d

More on Lucky Loser:

The history of this man’s deceit, corruption, and irrationality was never discreet. It was always out there, always major.

The NYT itself committed major journalistic malpractice in not assembling THEIR OWN archives into a precís of negligence, dereliction, fraud, and abuse.

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Paul McGee @paulmcgee.bsky.social · 1d

I was in the chair at my local spot last week, and rather than the Afrobeats/R&B they normally have playing when I visit, they'd gone instead with a "West Coast G-Funk Vibes" playlist that was clearly just AI-generated wallpaper music, 100% free of either G, funk or vibes.

Paul McGee @paulmcgee.bsky.social · 1d

I agree. Something like that's happened to me a few times, and in each case I realised it was due to a difference of opinion being taken as a personal slight. I just left them to sit with it, and in two of the three instances things eventually thawed out, but I never saw any point in asking why.

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Paul McGee @paulmcgee.bsky.social · 2d

The outsourcing of cognitive powers to ChatGPT is, in many ways, the logical endpoint of a culture where people want [x] without doing the work required to achieve [x]. What I don't understand is why yer man here hasn't twigged that leaning on ChatGPT like this means he'll never be good at anything.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 2d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 2d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 7d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Paul McGee @paulmcgee.bsky.social · 2d

Silence Of The Lambs.

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Paul McGee @paulmcgee.bsky.social · 2d

Three Days Of The Condor.

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Paul McGee @paulmcgee.bsky.social · 2d

Poltergeist.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 2d

Rest easy, Diane Keaton. Her work in Goodbar is some of the most amazing and fearless I've ever seen from an actor.

Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · Jan 4

Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977). Seen in a non muddy YT rip it some how becomes even more sordid and searing, a reeking of Charlie and Newports time capsule that's also the bleeding misogyny of right now. Fantastic cast, bleak as three am coffee.

Image from Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Diane Keaton is picturing herself as a sex worker.

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Paul McGee @paulmcgee.bsky.social · 2d

A renewable resource, too.

Image depicts Warren Oates as LAPD captain Braddock in BLUE THUNDER (1983). He is sat at a desk, looking up and to the left, with a night-time cityscape in the background. A subtitle reads; "A touch of irony, if you like that sort of thing."

Paul McGee @paulmcgee.bsky.social · 2d

I saw the o.g. Tron in the cinema and enjoyed it enormously. I still like it, albeit mostly for nostalgic reasons, and visually it still looks distinctive but otherwise it's pretty thin. Apart from the score I don't remember a single thing about the sequel.

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Paul McGee @paulmcgee.bsky.social · 3d

I honestly thought that title was the equivalent of a hype sticker on an album cover.

Paul McGee @paulmcgee.bsky.social · 3d

Wow, they're *really* calling it "The Beatles - A Four-Film Cinematic Event"? I wonder what they'll call it after sitting through eight hours of the same old "four lads who shook the world" horseshit performed by RADA grads mangling scouse accents (again)? deadline.com/2025/10/saoi...

Saoirse Ronan To Play Linda McCartney In ‘The Beatles — A Four-Film Cinematic Event’ – The Dish

Saoirse Ronan has joined the 'Beatles' movie quartet from Sam Mendes in the role of Linda McCartney, we can exclusively reveal.

deadline.com

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Paul McGee @paulmcgee.bsky.social · 3d

The story of the hit he put out on 3rd Bass is legendary.

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Paul McGee @paulmcgee.bsky.social · 3d

Peter Andre looks like he's been dipped in Ronseal. #TOTP

Paul McGee @paulmcgee.bsky.social · 4d

I can't imagine this isn't going to get worse.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

DJ Tim Westwood charged with four counts of rape

www.bbc.com